OCR – AS GCE European and World History Period Studies F962: Option B

Peace and War: International Relations c.1890–1941

Additional Sample Questions


  1. How fair was the Treaty of Versailles?
  2. To what extent did the League of Nations succeed in its aims in the 1920s?
  3. Assess the reasons why the Locarno treaties were so important.
  4. Assess the reasons why the League of Nations failed to prevent Japanese and Italian aggression in the 1930s.
  5. How similar were the foreign policies of Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s?
  6. To what extent did the foreign policies of Italy and Japan contribute to the outbreak of the Second World War?
  7. Assess the view that the Locarno treaties were the main reason why there were no major international disputes in the 1920s.