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GCSE History (Eduqas)

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Conflict and Upheaval: England, 1337-1381

The Hundred Years' War, the Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt — four decades that shook medieval England.

  1. England in the fourteenth century: society, church and trade
  2. Causes of the Hundred Years' War
  3. The course of the war: Crécy, Calais and Poitiers
  4. The arrival and immediate impact of the Black Death
  5. Legacy of the Black Death: labour, wages and the Statute of Labourers
  6. Peasant discontent: long and short-term causes
  7. The Peasants' Revolt: events of May-June 1381
  8. Significance of the Peasants' Revolt
  9. Interpretations: was 1381 a failed revolution or a turning point?
  10. Exam technique and synthesis: sources, interpretations and judgements

The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603

Court, religion, rich and poor — and the Spanish threat that defined a reign.

  1. Elizabethan government: court, Privy Council and Parliament
  2. Lifestyles of rich and poor
  3. Popular entertainment in Elizabethan times
  4. The Religious Settlement of 1559
  5. The Catholic threat: Northern Earls, plots and Mary Queen of Scots
  6. The Spanish Armada
  7. The Puritan threat
  8. Sources and interpretations of Elizabeth's reign
  9. End of the reign: succession, decline and legacy
  10. Exam technique and synthesis: was it a Golden Age?

Empire, Reform and War: Britain, 1890-1918

Boer War, Liberal reform, the suffragettes, culture and the Western Front — Britain at the height and edge of empire.

  1. The Second Boer War, 1899-1902
  2. Political developments: Liberals, Lords and Labour
  3. The need for social reform: Booth, Rowntree and Liberal reforms
  4. Women's suffrage: Suffragists and Suffragettes
  5. Culture and fashion in Edwardian Britain
  6. Life on the Western Front
  7. The Home Front: recruitment, DORA and propaganda
  8. Sources and interpretations of empire and war
  9. Britain in 1918: a country transformed
  10. Exam technique: handling sources from 1890-1918

Austerity, Affluence and Discontent: Britain, 1951-1979

Rationing to rock 'n' roll, Windrush to the Winter of Discontent — Britain's post-war story.

  1. Britain in the early 1950s: austerity and rationing
  2. The end of austerity: 'never had it so good'
  3. Popular entertainment and fashion: from teddy boys to punk
  4. Changing lives of women, 1951-1979
  5. Changing attitudes to authority: the permissive society
  6. Immigration: Windrush, race riots and Enoch Powell
  7. Political and economic problems of the 1970s
  8. Civil unrest in Northern Ireland
  9. Sources and interpretations: how 1951-79 has been remembered
  10. Exam technique and synthesis

The Crusades, c.1095-1149

Pope Urban II, the siege of Antioch, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Second Crusade.

  1. The power of the medieval papacy
  2. Birth of the Crusades: the Council of Clermont, 1095
  3. The First Crusade: Antioch and Jerusalem
  4. The Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer
  5. The Second Crusade and its failure
  6. Crusading orders and castle technology
  7. Social and cultural effects of the Crusades on Europe
  8. Interpretations of the Crusading movement
  9. Exam technique and synthesis

Voyages of Discovery and Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1522

Columbus, Magellan, Cortés and the destruction of the Aztec world.

  1. Why Europeans sailed: motives for the voyages of discovery
  2. The voyages of Columbus, 1492-1504
  3. Other explorers: Diaz, da Gama, Vespucci and Magellan
  4. The Aztec civilization
  5. Hernán Cortés and the road to Tenochtitlán
  6. The fall of the Aztecs, 1520-1521
  7. The impact of the Spanish conquest
  8. Interpretations: discovery, conquest or invasion?
  9. Exam technique and synthesis

Germany in Transition, 1919-1939

Weimar collapse, Hitler's rise and the Nazi state from consolidation to the brink of war.

  1. The impact of the First World War on Germany
  2. Hyperinflation and the Ruhr crisis, 1923
  3. The Stresemann years: a 'golden age'?
  4. The collapse of Weimar, 1929-1933
  5. Consolidation of Nazi power, 1933-1934
  6. Nazi economic and social policy
  7. Racial policy: Nazi treatment of the Jews to 1939
  8. Terror and persuasion: how the Nazis controlled Germany
  9. Hitler's foreign policy and the road to war
  10. Interpretations of Hitler's Germany
  11. Exam technique and synthesis

The USA: A Nation of Contrasts, 1910-1929

Immigration, prohibition, the boom, the Klan and the Wall Street Crash — the United States in its Jazz Age.

  1. Immigration and the Red Scare
  2. Religion and race: the Bible Belt and the KKK
  3. Prohibition and organised crime
  4. The 1920s economic boom
  5. The end of prosperity: the Wall Street Crash, 1929
  6. Popular entertainment in the Jazz Age
  7. The changing role of women
  8. Treatment of Native Americans
  9. Interpretations: a Nation of Contrasts?
  10. Exam technique and synthesis

The Development of the USA, 1929-2000

Depression to superpower — seventy years of crash, civil rights, Cold War and changing American politics.

  1. The Great Depression and the New Deal
  2. Wartime economy and post-war affluence
  3. Civil Rights, 1941-1955
  4. Civil Rights, 1955-1970: King, Malcolm X and legislation
  5. Political change, 1960-2000: from Kennedy to Clinton
  6. Social change, 1950-2000
  7. Cold War rivalry, 1945-1973
  8. Détente and the end of the Cold War, 1970-1991
  9. US involvement in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf War
  10. Themes across the period: continuity and change
  11. Exam technique: 16-mark period essays

The Development of Germany, 1919-1991

Weimar, Nazi rule, war, division and reunification — seven decades of German upheaval.

  1. Weimar Germany, 1919-1933: a survey
  2. Rise and consolidation of Nazi power, 1933-1934
  3. Life under the Nazis, 1933-1939
  4. Life during the Second World War
  5. Division of Germany, 1945-1961
  6. West Germany: economic recovery and politics
  7. East Germany: control and repression
  8. The Berlin Wall and Cold War relations
  9. Reunification, 1989-1991
  10. Themes: continuity and change in twentieth-century Germany
  11. Exam technique: 16-mark period essays

The Development of the USSR, 1924-1991

From Stalin to Gorbachev — seven decades of Soviet power, terror, war and collapse.

  1. Stalin's rise to power, 1924-1929
  2. Stalin's terror: purges, show trials and gulag
  3. Stalinist economy: collectivisation and Five Year Plans
  4. The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945
  5. Cold War relations, 1945-1991
  6. Khrushchev and de-Stalinisation, 1953-1964
  7. The Brezhnev years and stagnation, 1964-1985
  8. Gorbachev's reforms: glasnost and perestroika
  9. The collapse of the USSR, 1989-1991
  10. Themes: continuity and change in Soviet history
  11. Exam technique: 16-mark period essays

The Development of the UK, 1919-1990

Twenties to Thatcher — seven decades of British politics, society and economy.

  1. Britain in the Twenties
  2. Life during the Depression, 1929-1939
  3. The Home Front in the Second World War
  4. Post-war Britain, 1945-1960
  5. The Swinging Sixties
  6. The Stuttering Seventies
  7. The Thatcher Years: economy and society
  8. The Falklands War and the Miners' Strike
  9. End of the Thatcher era
  10. Themes: continuity and change in twentieth-century Britain
  11. Exam technique: 16-mark period essays

Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day

Saxon tithings to modern policing — 1,500 years of crime, law enforcement and punishment.

  1. Causes of crime across the eras
  2. Nature of crimes: medieval and early modern
  3. Nature of crimes: industrial to modern
  4. Enforcing law and order: medieval to early modern
  5. The birth of professional policing
  6. Modern policing: specialisation, technology and community
  7. Methods of punishment: medieval to early modern
  8. Prison reform: Howard, Fry and the silent and separate systems
  9. Modern punishment: rehabilitation, abolition and alternatives
  10. Historic environment: Policing in Liverpool c.1787-1900
  11. Exam technique: thematic change essays

Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500 to the present day

Galen to genome — 1,500 years of how Britain treated, prevented and understood disease.

  1. Causes of illness and disease over time
  2. Preventing disease: from alchemy to vaccination
  3. Treating disease: medieval medicine to anaesthetics
  4. Twentieth-century treatments: antibiotics and beyond
  5. Advances in medical knowledge
  6. Developments in patient care
  7. Public health: medieval to industrial
  8. Public health: modern Britain
  9. Historic environment: Letchworth Garden City
  10. Themes: change and continuity in health and medicine
  11. Exam technique: thematic change essays

The Development of Warfare in Britain, c.500 to the present day

Vikings to drones — 1,500 years of how Britain has fought, recruited, armed itself and used the sea.

  1. Causes of war across the eras
  2. Changes in tactics and strategy: medieval to early modern
  3. Modern tactics: trenches, guerrilla and beyond
  4. Training and recruitment over time
  5. Technology of warfare: medieval to industrial
  6. Technology of warfare: modern and nuclear
  7. Development of naval warfare
  8. The role of women in war
  9. Historic environment: Royal Dockyards, Chatham c.1567-1984
  10. Themes: continuity and change in British warfare
  11. Exam technique: thematic change essays

Changes in Entertainment and Leisure in Britain, c.500 to the present day

From mystery plays to streaming — 1,500 years of British sport, holidays, music and screen.

  1. Development of sport: medieval to industrial
  2. Spectator sport and professionalism, 1860-present
  3. Holidays and travel over time
  4. Theatre, stage and screen: medieval to Victorian
  5. Cinema, TV and screen entertainment from 1920
  6. Music and dance over time
  7. Children's entertainment over time
  8. Cruelty in sport and entertainment
  9. Historic environment: Glastonbury Festival c.1970 to the present day
  10. Themes: continuity and change in British entertainment
  11. Exam technique: thematic change essays

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