Shadows over Geneva: Interwar Years Decision-Making Revision Game

Make the call history made.
Shadows over Geneva is an immersive, film-noir decision-making revision game that puts students at the table of the statesmen who shaped Europe between 1919 and 1939. Each crisis is a real historical turning point. Students choose what they think was decided, then see what actually happened and exactly why the other options were not chosen.

Written for Cambridge IGCSE History (international relations 1919–39) and Cambridge AS & A Level History (the League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s and 1930s). Ideal for independent revision, homework, starters, plenaries and whole-class review.

Two course levels

• IGCSE: 81 decisions across the six desks. Three options per crisis, three adviser hints per game and an exam tip after every decision.
• AS & A Level: 106 decisions, with extra crises (Geneva Protocol, Mosul, Leticia, Rapallo, Lausanne and more), four options with harder distractors, no hints, and Historian’s Desk notes on the historiography.

Six desks to play from

• Paris 1919: the Big Three and the peace treaties. Was it fair?
• The League Council: disputes, aggressors and sanctions.
• Germany: Bauer, Cuno, Stresemann, Brüning, Papen and Hitler.
• Italy: the “mutilated victory”, Mussolini, Abyssinia and the Axis.
• Britain: Lloyd George, Baldwin, MacDonald and Chamberlain, and appeasement.
• France: security, reparations, the Ruhr, Locarno and the road to 1939.

Types of problems and topics covered

• Treaty of Versailles and the other peace treaties; reparations and the Ruhr occupation
• Strengths and weaknesses of the League of Nations: Vilna, Corfu, Mosul, Manchuria, Abyssinia
• Locarno, the Dawes and Young Plans, Kellogg-Briand and disarmament
• Hitler’s foreign policy: rearmament, the Rhineland, Anschluss, Munich, the Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Appeasement, collective security and the failure of peace
• Causes of the Second World War, and the debates between historians

Features

• Live strategic map that changes with every decision, plus League authority and world tension meters
• Illustrated characters, comic-style briefings and a newspaper-style end-of-game debrief
• Decision log for revision, with progress saved on the device
• Teacher notes included: pair debates, essay starters and exam-practice ideas

Device Compatibility:

• PC / Mac / Laptops: Includes offline HTML files to play directly in any web browser without needing internet.
• iPads & Tablets: Includes a direct web access link inside the download guide for mobile and tablet play.

Independent revision resource, not affiliated with or endorsed by Cambridge University Press & Assessment.