World War 2 QLS Level 3

This course will allow you to study when and where you want, at your own pace. All coursework can be submitted by email making it simple and hassle-free. All of the materials will be delivered to you so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are always a click away by email, giving you advice and helping you through your course.

Course Content

Unit 1 Pre-War 1939

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

Unit 2 1939

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

Unit 3 1940

• 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

Unit 4 1941/1942

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

Unit 5 1943/1944

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

Unit 6 1945 Post-War

• 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