GCSE & IGCSE History revision checklist

GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1HI0

Getting started

• Chronology: dates, centuries and periodsLesson →
• Causation and consequence: why things happenLesson →
• Using sources: provenance, inference and utilityLesson →
• Change, continuity and significanceLesson →
• Writing like a historian: explain and judgeLesson →

Paper 1: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000 to present, with Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900

• Crime and punishment in medieval England, c1000 to c1500Lesson →
• Crime and punishment in early modern England, c1500 to c1700Lesson →
• Crime and punishment, c1700 to c1900: crimes and prisonsLesson →
• Policing in the 1700s and 1800s: the Fieldings and PeelLesson →
• Crime and punishment in modern Britain, c1900 to presentLesson →
• Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900: crime, policing and the inner cityLesson →
• Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic studyLesson →

Paper 1: Medicine in Britain, c1250 to present, with the British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 18

• Medieval medicine, c1250 to c1500Lesson →
• The medical Renaissance, c1500 to c1700Lesson →
• Medicine in the 18th and 19th centuriesLesson →
• Surgery, anaesthetics, antiseptics and nursing, c1700 to c1900Lesson →
• Medicine in modern Britain, c1900 to presentLesson →
• The British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 18Lesson →
• Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic studyLesson →

Paper 1: Warfare and British society, c1250 to present, with London and the Second World War, 1939 to 45

• Medieval warfare and English society, c1250 to c1500Lesson →
• Warfare and English society, c1500 to c1700Lesson →
• Warfare and British society, c1700 to c1900Lesson →
• Warfare and British society in the modern era, c1900 to presentLesson →
• London and the Second World War, 1939 to 45Lesson →
• Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic studyLesson →

Paper 1: Migrants in Britain, c800 to present, with Notting Hill, c1948 to c1970

• Migration in medieval England, c800 to c1500Lesson →
• Migration in early modern England, c1500 to c1700Lesson →
• Migration in Britain, c1700 to c1900Lesson →
• Migration in modern Britain, c1900 to presentLesson →
• Notting Hill, c1948 to c1970Lesson →
• Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic studyLesson →

Paper 2: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060 to 88

• Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060 to 66Lesson →
• William I in power: securing the kingdom, 1066 to 87Lesson →
• Norman England, 1066 to 88Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189 to 1216

• Life and government in England, 1189 to 1216Lesson →
• Involvements overseas, 1189 to 1204Lesson →
• King John's downfall, 1205 to 16Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509 to 40

• Henry VIII and Wolsey, 1509 to 29Lesson →
• Henry VIII and Cromwell, 1529 to 40Lesson →
• The Reformation and its impact, 1529 to 40Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: Early Elizabethan England, 1558 to 88

• Queen, government and religion, 1558 to 69Lesson →
• Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569 to 88Lesson →
• Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558 to 88Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: Spain and the 'New World', c1490 to c1555

• Spain reaches the Americas, c1490 to 1512Lesson →
• The conquistadors, 1513 to c1528Lesson →
• The Spanish Empire, c1528 to c1555Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: British America, 1713 to 83: empire and revolution

• British settlement in North America, 1713 to 41Lesson →
• A disrupted society, 1742 to 64Lesson →
• The loss of an empire, 1765 to 83Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: The American West, c1835 to c1895

• The early settlement of the West, c1835 to c1862Lesson →
• Development of the Plains, c1862 to c1876Lesson →
• Later developments in the West, c1876 to c1895Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941 to 91

• Origins of the Cold War, 1941 to 1947Lesson →
• The Berlin Blockade and two alliancesLesson →
• Cold War crises, 1956 to 1962Lesson →
• Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia: tension and reaction, 1958 to 70Lesson →
• Detente and the 'Second Cold War', 1970 to 85Lesson →
• The end of the Cold War, 1985 to 91Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 2: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945 to 95

• The birth of the state of Israel, 1945 to 63Lesson →
• The escalating conflict, 1964 to 73Lesson →
• Attempts at a solution, 1974 to 95Lesson →
• Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth studyLesson →

Paper 3: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917 to 41

• Opposition to the Tsar and the February Revolution, 1917Lesson →
• The Provisional Government and the Bolshevik RevolutionLesson →
• Bolshevik consolidation and the Civil War, 1917 to 21Lesson →
• Totalitarianism, War Communism and the NEP, 1918 to 24Lesson →
• Stalin's struggle for power, 1924 to 28Lesson →
• Terror, propaganda and the cult of StalinLesson →
• Collectivisation and the Five-Year PlansLesson →
• Life in the Soviet Union, 1924 to 41Lesson →
• Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretationsLesson →

Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 to 39

• The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923Lesson →
• Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929Lesson →
• Changes in Weimar society, 1924 to 29Lesson →
• The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 28Lesson →
• Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934Lesson →
• The Nazi police state, propaganda and oppositionLesson →
• Nazi policies towards women and the youngLesson →
• Employment, living standards and persecutionLesson →
• Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretationsLesson →

Paper 3: Mao's China, 1945 to 76

• The Civil War and communist rule, 1945 to 49Lesson →
• Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 57Lesson →
• Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year PlanLesson →
• The Great Leap Forward and economic reformLesson →
• The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red GuardsLesson →
• Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 76Lesson →
• Life in Mao's China, 1949 to 76Lesson →
• Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretationsLesson →

Paper 3: The USA, 1954 to 75: conflict at home and abroad

• Civil rights in the 1950s: Brown, Montgomery and Little RockLesson →
• Protest and progress, 1960 to 65Lesson →
• Malcolm X, Black Power and civil rights, 1963 to 75Lesson →
• US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 64Lesson →
• The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 68Lesson →
• Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 73Lesson →
• Opposition, peace and US failure in VietnamLesson →
• Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretationsLesson →

International GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 4HI1

Getting started

• Chronology: dates, centuries and periodsLesson →
• Causation and consequence: why things happenLesson →
• Using sources: provenance, inference and utilityLesson →
• Change, continuity and significanceLesson →
• Writing like a historian: explain and judgeLesson →

Paper 1: The French Revolution, c1780 to 99

• Origins of the French Revolution, c1780 to 87Lesson →
• From the Assembly of Notables to the Bastille, 1787 to 89Lesson →
• Developments, 1789 to 92Lesson →
• The Convention and the Terror, 1792 to 94Lesson →
• Thermidor, the Directory and Napoleon, 1794 to 99Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848 to 70

• The 1848 revolutions in the Italian statesLesson →
• Developments in Piedmont, 1849 to 54Lesson →
• The defeat of Austria, 1854 to 59Lesson →
• Garibaldi, the South and the Kingdom of ItalyLesson →
• Venice, Rome and the extent of unification by 1870Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918 to 45

• The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923Lesson →
• Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929Lesson →
• The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 28Lesson →
• Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934Lesson →
• The Nazi police state, propaganda and oppositionLesson →
• Nazi policies towards women and the youngLesson →
• Employment, living standards and persecutionLesson →
• Germany and the occupied territories in the Second World WarLesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919 to 47

• The Rowlatt Acts, Amritsar and the 1919 ActLesson →
• Gandhi and Congress, 1919 to 27Lesson →
• Key developments, 1927 to 39Lesson →
• The impact of the Second World War on IndiaLesson →
• Communal violence, independence and partition, 1945 to 47Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924 to 53

• Stalin's struggle for power, 1924 to 28Lesson →
• Collectivisation and the Five-Year PlansLesson →
• Terror, propaganda and the cult of StalinLesson →
• Life in the Soviet Union, 1924 to 41Lesson →
• The USSR in the Second World War and after, 1941 to 53Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: A world divided: superpower relations, 1943 to 72

• Reasons for the Cold War: the wartime conferencesLesson →
• Early developments in the Cold War, 1945 to 49Lesson →
• The Cold War in the 1950sLesson →
• Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and CzechoslovakiaLesson →
• The Thaw and moves towards détente, 1963 to 72Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945 to 74

• The Red Scare and McCarthyismLesson →
• Civil rights in the 1950s: Brown, Montgomery and Little RockLesson →
• Protest and progress, 1960 to 65Lesson →
• Malcolm X, Black Power and civil rights, 1963 to 75Lesson →
• Other protest movements: students, women and anti-VietnamLesson →
• Nixon and WatergateLesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 1: South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948 to 94

• Setting up apartheid, 1948 to 54Lesson →
• The growth of apartheid, 1955 to 59Lesson →
• Resisting apartheid, 1955 to 78Lesson →
• P.W. Botha's response to resistance, 1978 to 90Lesson →
• Dismantling apartheid, 1990 to 94Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: A1 The origins and course of the First World War, 1905 to 18

• The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905 to 14Lesson →
• The growth of tension in Europe, 1905 to 14Lesson →
• The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western FrontLesson →
• The war at sea and GallipoliLesson →
• The defeat of Germany, 1917 to 18Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: A2 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905 to 24

• Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905 to 14Lesson →
• Opposition to the Tsar and the February Revolution, 1917Lesson →
• The Provisional Government and the Bolshevik RevolutionLesson →
• Bolshevik consolidation and the Civil War, 1917 to 21Lesson →
• Totalitarianism, War Communism and the NEP, 1918 to 24Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: A3 The USA, 1918 to 41

• The Roaring TwentiesLesson →
• Social tensions in the 1920sLesson →
• The USA in Depression, 1929 to 33Lesson →
• Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933 to 41Lesson →
• Opposition to the New DealLesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: A4 The Vietnam Conflict, 1945 to 75

• The struggle against France for independence, 1945 to 54Lesson →
• US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 64Lesson →
• The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 68Lesson →
• Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 73Lesson →
• Opposition, peace and US failure in VietnamLesson →
• The impact of the war on civilians and attitudes in the USALesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: A5 East Germany, 1958 to 90

• The Berlin Wall crisis, 1958 to 63Lesson →
• Stabilisation and control in the GDR, 1962 to 87Lesson →
• Life in the GDR: social change, 1962 to 87Lesson →
• Ostpolitik: relations with West Germany, 1969 to 87Lesson →
• The Peaceful Revolution, 1987 to 90Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B1 America: from new nation to divided union, 1783 to 1877

• Building a new nation, 1783 to 1809Lesson →
• Westward expansion and Native American removal, 1803 to 49Lesson →
• Slavery, the South and the causes of secession, 1850 to 61Lesson →
• Civil War and the end of slavery, 1861 to 65Lesson →
• A more perfect union? 1865 to 77Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B2 Changes in medicine, c1848 to c1948

• Progress in the mid-19th century: Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and SimpsonLesson →
• Discovery and development, 1860 to 75: Pasteur and ListerLesson →
• Accelerating change, 1875 to 1905: Koch, Ehrlich and chemistryLesson →
• Government action and war, 1905 to 20Lesson →
• Advances in medicine and the NHS, 1920 to 48Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B3 Japan in transformation, 1853 to 1945

• Japan opens up to the West, 1853 to 67Lesson →
• Transformation under the Meiji, 1867 to 95Lesson →
• An emerging power, 1895 to 1919Lesson →
• Political and economic challenges, 1919 to 31Lesson →
• Depression, empire and collapse, 1931 to 45Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900 to 89

• The fall of the Qing, warlordism and chaos, 1900 to 34Lesson →
• The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934 to 49Lesson →
• Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 57Lesson →
• Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year PlanLesson →
• The Great Leap Forward and economic reformLesson →
• The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red GuardsLesson →
• Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 76Lesson →
• China, 1976 to 89: Deng's reforms and TiananmenLesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B5 The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919 to c2011

• The creation and successes of the League, 1919 to 29Lesson →
• The League challenged, 1930 to 39Lesson →
• Setting up the United Nations and its work to 1964Lesson →
• The UN challenged, 1967 to 89Lesson →
• The UN at bay, 1990 to 2011Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B6 The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919 to 2011

• The changing nature of warfare, 1919 to 39Lesson →
• Changing methods of warfare, 1939 to 45Lesson →
• Nuclear and guerrilla war, 1945 to 75Lesson →
• Conventional war and 'new' wars, 1976 to 2000Lesson →
• Changing methods of warfare, 2000 to 2011Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B7 The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917 to 2012

• Build-up of tension in Palestine, 1917 to 46Lesson →
• The creation of Israel, 1948 to 49, and the Suez Crisis of 1956Lesson →
• Tension and conflict, 1956 to 73Lesson →
• Diplomacy, peace and wider war, 1973 to 83Lesson →
• The search for a lasting peace, 1987 to 2012Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →

Paper 2: B8 Diversity, rights and equality in Britain, 1914 to 2010

• The fight for recognition, 1914 to 28Lesson →
• The impact of Depression and war, 1928 to 45Lesson →
• Consequences of war and the end of empire, 1944 to 62Lesson →
• Changes in civil rights, c1962 to 86Lesson →
• Changes in opportunity and culture, 1986 to 2010Lesson →
• International GCSE History exam skillsLesson →