- Topic 1: Peace making
- 1.1 Aims of the participants and peacemakers: Wilson and the fourteen points
- 1.2 Terms of the Paris Peace Treaties 1919-20: Versailles, St Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sevre
- 1.3 The geopolitical and economic impact of the treaties on Europe and the mandate system
- 1.4 Enforcement of the provisions of the treaties: US isolationism, the retreat from the Anglo-American Guarantee, Disarmament-Washington, London and Geneva Conferences
- 1.5 The League of Nations: effects of the absence of major powers, the principles of collective responsibility, and early attempts at peacekeeping (1920-25)
- 1.6 The Ruhr Crisis (1923), Locarno and the Locarno Spring
- 1.7 Depression and threats to international peace and collective security, Manchuria (1931 to 1933) and Abyssinia (1935 to 1936)
- Topic 2: Communism in Crisis
- 2.1 The struggle for power following the death of Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, the reemergence of Deng Xiaoping and the defeat of the Gang of Four
- 2.2 China under Deng Xiaoping, economic policies and the Four Modernizations
- 2.3 China Under Deng Xiaoping, Political Changes And Their Limits, Culminating In The Demonstrations In Tiananmen Square
- 2.4 Domestic and foreign problems of the Brezhnev era, economic and political stagnation, Afghanistan
