Revise for GCSE History in 36 days
These are the topics identified in the AQA syllabus.
Click on the blue numbers for specific revision content:
Add days and dates as appropriate in the left-hand columns.
WARNING
These revision notes are aimed AT THE AQA EXAM ONLY.
It also is aimed at those topics needed by my own pupils at Greenfield, who are doing:
● International relations 1919-1962
● Britain in World War II
● Russia
● Germany
For Paper One
Greenfield
pupils can print off a hard-copy of:
● the revision events / ● the events importance.
For Paper Two:
Greenfield
pupils can print off a hard-copy of:
● the Russia and the ● America revision notes.
So before you use this, make sure you aren't doing different topics - you may need to adapt it to your own syllabus.
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1 The alliance system and the Arms race. |
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2 Moroccan Crises 1905 and 1911. |
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3 Bosnian Crisis 1908-9. |
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4 Sarajevo, Austria/Hungary and the Serbs; |
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5 The Schlieffen Plan; |
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6 Events leading to the outbreak of war. |
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7 Inter-war Overview |
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8 Paris Peace Conference: Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau – their views and motives. |
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9 Terms of Treaty of Versailles – territorial changes, military restrictions, war-guilt and reparations. |
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10 The League of Nations: membership, organisation, powers & peacekeeping role. |
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11 Crises of Manchuria (1931-2) and Abyssinia (1935-6). |
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12 Hitler’s aims: Aryan supremacy and lebensraum; Hitler's policies 1933-8: the Saar; Rhineland; Austria 1938. |
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13 Appeasement and Chamberlain; Sudetenland and Munich Agreement; |
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14 Czechoslovakia, March 1939; growing tensions, 1938-9 including role of USSR; Nazi-Soviet Pact; Poland and outbreak of war. |
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15 Cold War Overview |
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16 East-West ideological gap; |
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17 Decisions made at Yalta and Potsdam, and their importance; |
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18 Soviet expansion into Central and Eastern Europe; Iron Curtain; |
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19 Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; attitudes of Stalin and Truman. |
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20 Berlin 1945-48; Berlin blockade and airlift. NATO and Warsaw Pact; |
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i Korean War; |
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ii Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful co-existence and the USA’s response; The beginnings of the Arms Race; space race; |
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iii Hungary, 1956; |
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iv U2 incident, 1960. |
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v Berlin Wall; President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin, 1963. |
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vi The background in Cuba; Castro; friendship with USSR; Kennedy and Bay of Pigs; the crisis of 1962 and its results. |
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21 BEF in Europe, 1939-40; Dunkirk; |
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22 Evacuation; |
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23 Battle of Britain; the Blitz and air-raid precautions; |
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24 Conscription; internment; |
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25 Censorship and propaganda; |
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26 Battle of the Atlantic and the effects of submarine warfare; rationing; the role of women |
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27 D-Day and defeat of Germany. |
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28 Russia Overview |
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29 Government of Nicholas II in 1914; nature of Russian society in 1914; traditional loyalty; opposition groups. the role of Rasputin; Impact of World War I on Russia; military defeat; food shortages and transport dislocation at home. Political upheaval and Tsar’s abdication/ creation of the Russian republic; Problems facing the Provisional Government and its failures, including military defeats and their effects at home. |
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30 Growth of Bolshevik organisation in summer/autumn 1917; The Bolshevik seizure of power, and the reasons for their success. Foundation of totalitarian rule; end of World War I for Russia, and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; creation of the USSR; causes, nature and consequences of the Civil War, 1918-1921. War Communism; Kronstadt Mutiny; the New Economic Policy; roles of Lenin and Trotsky. |
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31 Struggle for power with Trotsky; elimination of other rivals in the 1920s; purges in the 1930s; the 1936 Constitution. propaganda and censorship; Collectivisation of agriculture; Five Year Plans and growth of industry; economic effects. |
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32 Germany Overview |
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33 Origins of the Weimar Republic; effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany; Problems of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1924: political weakness; challenges from the Left and Right; Spartacists; Kapp Putsch; invasion of the Ruhr; hyperinflation. Recovery of the economy; the Dawes and Young Plans; the role of Stresemann. |
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34 Early career of Hitler; founding of the Nazi Party; Mein Kampf; Munich Putsch; decline in support in the Stresemann years. inability of the Weimar Republic to cope with the Depression. Growth in support for the Nazis, 1929-1933; and its reasons; elections of 1932; invitation to lead coalition government, 1933. |
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35 Hitler's consolidation of power - Reichstag Fire; Election of March 1933; Enabling Act; Elimination of political opposition – political parties, Trade Unions. Night of the Long Knives; death of Hindenburg; Hitler becomes Führer. One party law and order – the SS and Gestapo. Control of education, youth movements and the media; censorship and propaganda. Cultural, racial and religious persecution; |
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36 Economic policy; increased employment through public works programmes, rearmament and conscription; self-sufficiency. Effects of Nazi policies on people living in Germany. |
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America Note that there are no easy Diary entries on America yet, but you can revise America using the R_Diary revision notes. |