GCSE History (OCR)

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International Relations 1918-1975

From Versailles to Vietnam — the unfolding narrative of the twentieth-century international order.

1. The Versailles Peace Settlement 1919
2. The League of Nations in the 1920s
3. International agreements in the 1920s
4. The Great Depression and the retreat to nationalism
5. Tension in Europe in the 1930s
6. Yalta, Potsdam and the changing order 1945-1948
7. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and divided Germany
8. NATO, Warsaw Pact and the Berlin Wall
9. The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
10. US involvement in Vietnam 1954-1965
11. The Vietnam War 1965-1973
12. End of the war and its international legacy

China 1950-1981: The People and the State

Mao's revolution, the Cultural Revolution and Deng's reforms — a society remade three times in thirty years.

1. Establishing communist rule and early purges
2. Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns
3. Social policies, women and education under Mao
4. The Great Leap Forward and the famine
5. Launching the Cultural Revolution 1966-69
6. Tibet, propaganda and the Mao cult
7. Mao's death, the Gang of Four and the Democracy Wall
8. Deng's Four Modernisations and economic reform
9. Women, education and the One Child Policy

Germany 1925-1955: The People and the State

From Weimar to the Nazi state to a divided post-war Germany — thirty years of political extremes.

1. The Weimar Republic 1925-1928
2. The Depression and the rise of the Nazis 1929-1933
3. Consolidation of Nazi power 1933-1934
4. The Nazi terror state
5. Propaganda, culture and the cult of Hitler
6. Economy, society and the Nazi winners and losers
7. Opposition, persecution and the racial state
8. Germany at war 1939-1945
9. De-Nazification and divided Germany 1945-1955

South Africa 1960-1994: The People and the State

From Sharpeville to the first democratic election — resistance to apartheid and the negotiated end of a regime.

1. Apartheid consolidation and the Bantustans
2. Sharpeville and the turn to armed struggle
3. Rivonia Trial and the long silence
4. Black Consciousness, Durban strikes and trade unions
5. Soweto Uprising and youth resistance
6. International isolation and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
7. P.W. Botha's State of Emergency and total strategy
8. Cuito Cuanavale, de Klerk and the negotiation begins
9. Election 1994 and the new South Africa

The USA 1919-1948: The People and the State

From the Roaring Twenties through the New Deal to the home front of the Second World War.

1. The Roaring Twenties and Republican prosperity
2. Women, the Sheppard-Towner Act and the 19th Amendment
3. Prohibition: causes, enforcement and failure
4. Jim Crow, the Klan and racial violence
5. Immigration, the Red Scare and nativism
6. The Great Depression and Hoover's response
7. The First and Second New Deals
8. Reactions to the New Deal
9. The Second World War and civil rights

The USA 1945-1974: The People and the State

The Red Scare, the civil rights movement and the radical decade — America from V-J Day to Nixon's resignation.

1. The post-war Red Scare
2. McCarthyism
3. African Americans before Brown v Board
4. Brown, Montgomery and the early civil rights movement
5. Freedom Rides to the Civil Rights Act 1964
6. Malcolm X, Black Power and radical movements
7. Native Americans, Chicanos and other civil rights movements
8. Feminism and the women's movement
9. Vietnam protests, Great Society and Nixon's America

Migration to Britain c.1000-c.2010

A thousand years of arrivals, communities and identity in Britain — Jewish, Huguenot, Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, EU.

1. England before 1066 and the Norman impact on migration
2. Jews in medieval England 1066-1290
3. Africans, Asians and other migrants in early modern England
4. Jewish readmission and Huguenot refugees
5. Atlantic slavery and British ports
6. Industrial Britain: Irish, Scottish and Eastern European migrants
7. Two world wars and inter-war migration
8. Commonwealth migration after 1945
9. Multicultural Britain 1981-2010
10. Ideas of Englishness and Britishness over time

Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000-2014

A thousand-year story of who ruled Britain — Anglo-Saxon kings, medieval barons, Tudors, Parliament, the people.

1. Anglo-Saxon kingship c.1000-1066
2. The Norman monarchy and feudal power 1066-1154
3. Magna Carta and the emergence of Parliament 1199-1399
4. Tudor monarchy and Parliament
5. Civil War, Republic and Restoration
6. The Glorious Revolution and parliamentary monarchy
7. Reform Acts and the expansion of the franchise 1832-1928
8. State, war and welfare 1914-1979
9. Pressure groups, Thatcher and challenges to Parliament
10. Devolution and coalition government

War and British Society c.790-c.2010

Vikings to Iraq — how a thousand years of warfare reshaped British people, politics and the state.

1. Viking raids on Anglo-Saxon England 790-1066
2. Norman conquest and feudal warfare 1066-1215
3. Late medieval warfare c.1290-c.1450
4. Elizabeth, Spain and the new world
5. Border warfare c.1500-c.1600
6. Civil Wars in England, Scotland and Ireland 1642-1651
7. Jacobite rebellions and imperial wars
8. Napoleonic wars and Victorian imperial conflicts
9. Two world wars and total war 1914-1945
10. Cold War, IRA and the wars on terror

Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-c.1730 with Spitalfields

Glorious Revolution to South Sea Bubble — Britain's leap to global power, plus the migrant story of Spitalfields.

1. Glorious Revolution and the Hanoverian succession
2. Ireland 1688-1691 and the Jacobite threat
3. Scotland 1688-1715: Glencoe to Union
4. Emigration from the British Isles
5. Bank of England, East India Company and the trade revolution
6. Royal African Company and the slave economy
7. Consumerism, coffee houses and political activism
8. Spitalfields: site introduction and Huguenot weavers
9. Spitalfields: Irish, Jewish and Bangladeshi communities
10. Source skills for Spitalfields and Empire

The English Reformation c.1520-c.1550 with Kenilworth Castle

Henry VIII's break with Rome, the dissolution of the monasteries and Edwardian Protestantism — plus Kenilworth Castle as historic environment.

1. The pre-Reformation English Church c.1520
2. Lollards, Luther and English criticism of the church
3. The King's Great Matter and the Reformation Parliament
4. Valor Ecclesiasticus and Visitation of the Monasteries
5. Dissolution: process, impact and resistance
6. Religious worship under Henry and Edward
7. Parish reaction and the Prayer Book Rebellion
8. Kenilworth Castle: location and physical fabric
9. Kenilworth's functions: defence, residence, administration
10. Source skills for Kenilworth and the Reformation

Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660 with Kenilworth Castle

Charles I, Civil War, regicide, Cromwell and the restoration of Charles II — plus Kenilworth Castle as historic environment.

1. Charles I's Personal Rule 1629-1640
2. Slide to civil war 1640-1642
3. First Civil War 1642-1646
4. Levellers, Diggers and radical religion
5. Second Civil War, Pride's Purge and regicide
6. Rump Parliament and the rise of Cromwell 1649-1653
7. Protectorate 1653-1658
8. Restoration 1658-1660
9. Kenilworth Castle in the Civil War
10. Source skills for Kenilworth and Personal Rule

How to revise History

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