This text covers the topic: Dictatorship and Democracy,1920-1945, the compulsory Document-based Question, to be examined in 2024 and 2025.

• An exam focused text, suitable for students of all abilities,
• using accessible language, layout and concepts
• The book has been designed to entirely focus on the prescribed Case Studies allowing students to achieve an in-depth understanding of each of the Case Studies
• For 2024 and 2025, the three Case Studies studied through documents are drawn from Dictatorship and Democracy, 1920-1945: Stalin's Show trials, The Nuremberg Rallies, The Jarrow March
• A detailed treatment of each Case Study including background information the consequences are outlined to provide more in-depth understanding for each Case Study. There are exam-type document questions, including documents-based questions from past leaving Certificate History papers
• The exam-type document questions are differentiated for higher and ordinary level students
• The Case Studies chapters contain primary source documents with accompanying questions
• relevant key personalities and key concepts to the topic are included