1994
Discuss and analyze the political and economic reasons for the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany after the First World War.
Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860 to 1917 that prepared the ground for revolution in Russia.
Analyze the common political and economic problems facing Western European nations in the period 1945-1960 and discuss their responses to those problems.
2000
Compare and contrast the political and economic policies of Joseph Stalin in the period before the Second World War and those of Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991).
Evaluate how the ideas of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud challenged Enlightenment assumptions about human behaviour and the role of reason.
Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and women from the heart: Man to command woman to obey:
How accurately do the lines of poetry above reflect gender roles for European men and women in the late nineteenth century? 2001
How did new theories in physics and psychology in the period from 1900 to 1939 challenge existing ideas about the individual and society?
Compare and contrast the political and economic effects of the Cold War (1945-1991) on Western Europe with the effects on Eastern Europe.
Compare and contrast the French Jacobins’ use of state power to achieve revolutionary goals during the Terror (1793-1794) with Stalin’s use of state power to achieve revolutionary goals in the Soviet Union during the period 1928 to 1939.
2002
Many historians have suggested that since 1945 nationalism has been on the decline in Europe. Using both political and economic examples from the period 1945 to 2000, evaluate the validity of this interpretation.
Compare and contrast the foreign policy goals and achievements of Metternich (1815-1848) and Bismarck (1862-1890).
Analyze the