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iGCSE History Edexcel

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123 topics in 22 modules

  1. β˜‘οΈ A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74 5 topics
    • The Red Scare and McCarthyism
    • Civil rights in the 1950s
    • The impact of civil rights protests, 1960-74
    • Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam
    • Nixon and Watergate
  2. β˜‘οΈ The Weimar Republic 1918-1929 11 topics
    • Formation of the Weimar Republic and the impact of World War I
    • The economy: hyperinflation and recovery
    • The Treaty of Versailles: terms, reactions within Germany, and international responses
    • Early challenges to the Weimar Republic: left and right wing uprisings and the Kapp Putsch
    • Changes in society: women's rights, education and youth
    • Impact of the Golden Age of Cinema and the Bauhaus art movement
    • The influence of the USA: The Dawes and Young Plans
    • Political stability: Stresemann's influence and the Locarno Treaties
    • Relationship with the League of Nations and foreign policy objectives
    • The rise of extremism and the impact of the Wall Street Crash
    • Collapse of the republic and challenges from the Nazi Party
  3. β˜‘οΈ America: from new nation to divided union, 1783-1877 5 topics
    • Building a new nation, 1783-1809
    • Westward expansion and Native American removal, 1803-49
    • Slavery, the South and the causes of secession, 1850-61
    • Civil War and the end of slavery, 1861-65
    • A More Perfect Union? 1865-77
  4. β˜‘οΈ A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72 5 topics
    • Reasons for the Cold War
    • Early developments in the Cold War, 1945-49
    • The Cold War in the 1950s
    • Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
    • The Thaw and moves towards Detente, 1963-72
  5. β˜‘οΈ Changes in medicine, c1848-c1948 5 topics
    • Progress in the mid- 19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
    • Discovery and development, 1860-75; Lister and Pasteur
    • Accelerating change, 1875-1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry
    • Government action and war, 1905-20
    • Advances in medicine, surgery and public health 1920-48; the NHS
  6. β˜‘οΈ China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900-89 5 topics
    • The fall of the Qing, Warlordism and chaos, 1900-34
    • The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934-49
    • Change under Mao, 1949-63
    • The Cultural Revolution and its impact, 1965-76
    • China, 1976-89
  7. β˜‘οΈ Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919-47 5 topics
    • The Rowlatt Acts, Amritsar and the Government of India Act, 1919
    • Gandhi and Congress, 1919-27
    • Key developments, 1927-39
    • The impact of the Second World War on India
    • Communal violence, independence and partition, 1945-47
  8. β˜‘οΈ Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848-70 5 topics
    • The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states
    • Developments in Piedmont, 1849-54
    • The defeat of Austria, 1854-59
    • Garibaldi and the Papal States
    • Venice and Rome and the extent of unification by 1870
  9. β˜‘οΈ Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924-53 5 topics
    • The leadership struggle, 1924-29
    • Five-year Plans and collectivisation
    • Purges, show trials, the cult of Stalin and the revision of history
    • Life in the Soviet Union, 1924-41
    • The Second World War and after, 1941-53
  10. β˜‘οΈ East Germany, 1958-90 5 topics
    • The Berlin Wall crisis, 1958-63
    • Stabilisation and control: the GDR, 1962-87
    • Life in the GDR - social change, 1962-87
    • Ostpolitik - relations with the Federal Republic, 1969-87
    • The Peaceful Revolution, 1987-90
  11. β˜‘οΈ French Revolution, c1780-99 5 topics
    • The origins of the Revolution, c1780-87
    • Short-term causes of the Revolution: from Assembly of Notables to Estates General, 1787-89
    • Developments 1789-92
    • Convention and Terror, 1792-94
    • Directory and First Consul - the fall of Robespierre to the rise of Napoleon, 1794-99
  12. β˜‘οΈ Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918-45 5 topics
    • The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
    • The recovery of Germany, 1924-29
    • The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
    • Nazi Germany 1933-39
    • Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
  13. β˜‘οΈ Japan in transformation, 1853-1945 5 topics
    • Japan opening up to China and the West, 1853-67
    • Transformation, 1867-1895
    • An emerging power, 1895-1919
    • Political and economic challenges, 1919-31
    • Depression, empire and collapse, 1931-45
  14. β˜‘οΈ Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-24 5 topics
    • Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905-14
    • Opposition to Tsarist rule 1914-17: the impact of war and the February Revolution
    • Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution
    • The Bolshevik consolidation of power and the Civil War
    • War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)
  15. β˜‘οΈ South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948-94 5 topics
    • Setting up apartheid, 1948-54
    • The growth of apartheid, 1955-59
    • Resisting apartheid, 1955-78
    • PW Botha - response to resistance, 1978-90
    • Dismantling Apartheid, 1990-94
  16. β˜‘οΈ The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919-2011 5 topics
    • The changing nature of warfare, 1919-39
    • Changing methods of warfare by land, air and sea, 1939-45
    • New forms of conflict - nuclear and guerrilla war versus conventional war, 1945-75
    • Conventional war and the development of 'new' wars, 1976- 2000
    • Changing methods of warfare at the beginning of the 21st century, 2000-2011
  17. β˜‘οΈ The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919-c2011 5 topics
    • The creation and successes of the League, 1919-29
    • The League challenged, 1930-39
    • Setting up the United Nations Organisation and its work to 1964
    • The UN challenged, 1967-89
    • The UN at bay, 1990-2011
  18. β˜‘οΈ The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917-2012 5 topics
    • Build up of tension in Palestine, 1917-46
    • The creation of Israel, the war of 1948-49 and the Suez Crisis of 1956
    • Tension and conflict, 1956-73
    • Diplomacy, peace then wider war, 1973-83
    • The attempts to find a lasting peace, 1987- 2012
  19. β˜‘οΈ The origins and course of the First World War, 1905-18 5 topics
    • The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905-14
    • The growth of tension in Europe, 1905-14
    • The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western Front
    • The war at sea and Gallipoli
    • The defeat of Germany
  20. β˜‘οΈ The Treaty of Versailles, 1919 12 topics
    • Causes and Conditions Leading to the Treaty
    • Main participants and their motives in the peace conference
    • The terms and clauses of the Treaty itself
    • The territorial, military and economic conditions imposed on Germany
    • The reaction to the Treaty in Germany, Britain, France and USA
    • The impact of the Treaty on the Weimar Republic
    • The concept and implementation of β€˜War Guilt’ and reparations
    • The formation and role of the League of Nations
    • The views and opposition of key figures such as Woodrow Wilson and Clemenceau
    • The overall consequences and effectiveness of the Treaty
    • Subsequent treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
    • The legacy and long-standing effects of the Treaty on world politics
  21. β˜‘οΈ The USA, 1918-41 5 topics
    • The Roaring Twenties
    • Increased social tensions in the 1920s
    • The USA in Depression, 1929-33
    • Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-41
    • The Opposition to the New Deal
  22. β˜‘οΈ The Vietnam Conflict, 1945-75 5 topics
    • The struggle against France for independence, 1945-54
    • US policy and intervention, 1954-64
    • Confrontation in the Vietnam War, escalation 1964-68
    • Nixon and Ford's policies - Vietnamisation, peace and Communist victory, 1969-75
    • The impact of conflict on civilians in Vietnam and attitudes in the USA

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