World War 1 and 2 QLS Level 3

• Characteristics
• Terms of the treaty of London
• International tension
• State of military technology pre-war

• Assassination of the Archduke
• System of alliances
• “The war of movement”
• Trench warfare
• Movements

• Characteristics of trench warfare
• “Mechanised warfare”
• Innovations
• The sinking of the Lusitania
• Chemical Weapons

• Gallipoli
• Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula
• “War of attrition”
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Verdun

• New forms of warfare
• Role of new machines of war
• American entry into the war
• Home front

• German counteroffensives of 1918
• Closing phase of the war
• Germany and the central powers collapsed in 1918
• Treaty of Versailles
• Post war events
• Setting the scene for WW2

• The treaty of Versailles
• Effect on Germany after 1918
• Adolf Hitler 1933
• Appeasement policy
• Nations avoiding another war

• How WW2 began
• System of alliances
• ‘The phony war’
• Invasion of Poland
• Military technology since 1914
• Movements in the first year of war

• German invasion of the lowlands, Norway and Denmark
• German invasion of France
• Characteristics of ‘blitzkrieg’
• The Battle of Britain
• Formation and characteristics of the axis alliance

• Rationale which informed operation Barbarossa
• Operation Barbarossa
• Events including Pearl Harbour
• American entry into the war

• Why Italy surrendered to the allies in 1943
• ‘D-Day’
• Changes in military technology to 1944
• The home front in Britain and Germany

• Why Germany collapsed in 1945
• War closing phase
• Nuclear weapons
• Setting the scene for the cold war
• Significance of WW2 in terms of world history

This course is assessed by a series of written assignments which are marked by your tutor. No external examination is required.

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At the end of this course successful learners will receive two Certificate’s of Achievement from the Quality License Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of each course).