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.
- England in the fourteenth century: society, church and trade
- Causes of the Hundred Years' War
- The course of the war: Crécy, Calais and Poitiers
- The arrival and immediate impact of the Black Death
- Legacy of the Black Death: labour, wages and the Statute of Labourers
- Peasant discontent: long and short-term causes
- The Peasants' Revolt: events of May-June 1381
- Significance of the Peasants' Revolt
- Interpretations: was 1381 a failed revolution or a turning point?
- 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.
- Elizabethan government: court, Privy Council and Parliament
- Lifestyles of rich and poor
- Popular entertainment in Elizabethan times
- The Religious Settlement of 1559
- The Catholic threat: Northern Earls, plots and Mary Queen of Scots
- The Spanish Armada
- The Puritan threat
- Sources and interpretations of Elizabeth's reign
- End of the reign: succession, decline and legacy
- 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.
- The Second Boer War, 1899-1902
- Political developments: Liberals, Lords and Labour
- The need for social reform: Booth, Rowntree and Liberal reforms
- Women's suffrage: Suffragists and Suffragettes
- Culture and fashion in Edwardian Britain
- Life on the Western Front
- The Home Front: recruitment, DORA and propaganda
- Sources and interpretations of empire and war
- Britain in 1918: a country transformed
- 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.
- Britain in the early 1950s: austerity and rationing
- The end of austerity: 'never had it so good'
- Popular entertainment and fashion: from teddy boys to punk
- Changing lives of women, 1951-1979
- Changing attitudes to authority: the permissive society
- Immigration: Windrush, race riots and Enoch Powell
- Political and economic problems of the 1970s
- Civil unrest in Northern Ireland
- Sources and interpretations: how 1951-79 has been remembered
- 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.
- The power of the medieval papacy
- Birth of the Crusades: the Council of Clermont, 1095
- The First Crusade: Antioch and Jerusalem
- The Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer
- The Second Crusade and its failure
- Crusading orders and castle technology
- Social and cultural effects of the Crusades on Europe
- Interpretations of the Crusading movement
- Exam technique and synthesis
Voyages of Discovery and Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1522
Columbus, Magellan, Cortés and the destruction of the Aztec world.
- Why Europeans sailed: motives for the voyages of discovery
- The voyages of Columbus, 1492-1504
- Other explorers: Diaz, da Gama, Vespucci and Magellan
- The Aztec civilization
- Hernán Cortés and the road to Tenochtitlán
- The fall of the Aztecs, 1520-1521
- The impact of the Spanish conquest
- Interpretations: discovery, conquest or invasion?
- 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.
- The impact of the First World War on Germany
- Hyperinflation and the Ruhr crisis, 1923
- The Stresemann years: a 'golden age'?
- The collapse of Weimar, 1929-1933
- Consolidation of Nazi power, 1933-1934
- Nazi economic and social policy
- Racial policy: Nazi treatment of the Jews to 1939
- Terror and persuasion: how the Nazis controlled Germany
- Hitler's foreign policy and the road to war
- Interpretations of Hitler's Germany
- 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.
- Immigration and the Red Scare
- Religion and race: the Bible Belt and the KKK
- Prohibition and organised crime
- The 1920s economic boom
- The end of prosperity: the Wall Street Crash, 1929
- Popular entertainment in the Jazz Age
- The changing role of women
- Treatment of Native Americans
- Interpretations: a Nation of Contrasts?
- 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.
- The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Wartime economy and post-war affluence
- Civil Rights, 1941-1955
- Civil Rights, 1955-1970: King, Malcolm X and legislation
- Political change, 1960-2000: from Kennedy to Clinton
- Social change, 1950-2000
- Cold War rivalry, 1945-1973
- Détente and the end of the Cold War, 1970-1991
- US involvement in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf War
- Themes across the period: continuity and change
- Exam technique: 16-mark period essays
The Development of Germany, 1919-1991
Weimar, Nazi rule, war, division and reunification — seven decades of German upheaval.
- Weimar Germany, 1919-1933: a survey
- Rise and consolidation of Nazi power, 1933-1934
- Life under the Nazis, 1933-1939
- Life during the Second World War
- Division of Germany, 1945-1961
- West Germany: economic recovery and politics
- East Germany: control and repression
- The Berlin Wall and Cold War relations
- Reunification, 1989-1991
- Themes: continuity and change in twentieth-century Germany
- 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.
- Stalin's rise to power, 1924-1929
- Stalin's terror: purges, show trials and gulag
- Stalinist economy: collectivisation and Five Year Plans
- The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945
- Cold War relations, 1945-1991
- Khrushchev and de-Stalinisation, 1953-1964
- The Brezhnev years and stagnation, 1964-1985
- Gorbachev's reforms: glasnost and perestroika
- The collapse of the USSR, 1989-1991
- Themes: continuity and change in Soviet history
- Exam technique: 16-mark period essays
The Development of the UK, 1919-1990
Twenties to Thatcher — seven decades of British politics, society and economy.
- Britain in the Twenties
- Life during the Depression, 1929-1939
- The Home Front in the Second World War
- Post-war Britain, 1945-1960
- The Swinging Sixties
- The Stuttering Seventies
- The Thatcher Years: economy and society
- The Falklands War and the Miners' Strike
- End of the Thatcher era
- Themes: continuity and change in twentieth-century Britain
- 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.
- Causes of crime across the eras
- Nature of crimes: medieval and early modern
- Nature of crimes: industrial to modern
- Enforcing law and order: medieval to early modern
- The birth of professional policing
- Modern policing: specialisation, technology and community
- Methods of punishment: medieval to early modern
- Prison reform: Howard, Fry and the silent and separate systems
- Modern punishment: rehabilitation, abolition and alternatives
- Historic environment: Policing in Liverpool c.1787-1900
- 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.
- Causes of illness and disease over time
- Preventing disease: from alchemy to vaccination
- Treating disease: medieval medicine to anaesthetics
- Twentieth-century treatments: antibiotics and beyond
- Advances in medical knowledge
- Developments in patient care
- Public health: medieval to industrial
- Public health: modern Britain
- Historic environment: Letchworth Garden City
- Themes: change and continuity in health and medicine
- 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.
- Causes of war across the eras
- Changes in tactics and strategy: medieval to early modern
- Modern tactics: trenches, guerrilla and beyond
- Training and recruitment over time
- Technology of warfare: medieval to industrial
- Technology of warfare: modern and nuclear
- Development of naval warfare
- The role of women in war
- Historic environment: Royal Dockyards, Chatham c.1567-1984
- Themes: continuity and change in British warfare
- 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.
- Development of sport: medieval to industrial
- Spectator sport and professionalism, 1860-present
- Holidays and travel over time
- Theatre, stage and screen: medieval to Victorian
- Cinema, TV and screen entertainment from 1920
- Music and dance over time
- Children's entertainment over time
- Cruelty in sport and entertainment
- Historic environment: Glastonbury Festival c.1970 to the present day
- Themes: continuity and change in British entertainment
- Exam technique: thematic change essays