GCSE-readyPearson Edexcel International GCSE History (4HI1)
132 free lessons that follow the International GCSE specification topic by topic. Each lesson has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
International GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 4HI1
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5 lessons · about 74 minutes
Paper 1: The French Revolution, c1780 to 99
7 lessons · about 2 h
- Origins of the French Revolution, c1780 to 87 16 min
- From the Assembly of Notables to the Bastille, 1787 to 1789 17 min
- Developments, 1789 to 1792 17 min
- The Convention and the Terror, 1792 to 1794 17 min
- Inside the Terror, 1793 to 1794 17 min
- Thermidor, the Directory and Napoleon, 1794 to 1799 16 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 1: Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848 to 70
7 lessons · about 1 h 55 min
- The 1848 revolutions in the Italian states 16 min
- Developments in Piedmont, 1849 to 1854 15 min
- Cavour's Piedmont: reform and diplomacy, 1850 to 1858 17 min
- The defeat of Austria, 1854 to 1859 17 min
- Garibaldi, the South and the Kingdom of Italy 17 min
- Venice, Rome and the extent of unification by 1870 16 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 1: Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918 to 45
9 lessons · about 2 h 35 min
- The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923 · video 17 min
- Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929 · video 15 min
- The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 1928 · video 17 min
- Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934 · video 18 min
- The Nazi police state, propaganda and opposition · video 18 min
- Nazi policies towards women and the young · video 16 min
- Employment, living standards and persecution · video 18 min
- Germany and the occupied territories in the Second World War 18 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 1: Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919 to 47
6 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
Paper 1: Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924 to 53
6 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
- Stalin's struggle for power, 1924 to 1928 · video 16 min
- Collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans · video 18 min
- Terror, propaganda and the cult of Stalin · video 18 min
- Life in the Soviet Union, 1924 to 1941 · video 16 min
- The USSR in the Second World War and after, 1941 to 1953 18 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 1: A world divided: superpower relations, 1943 to 72
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
Paper 1: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945 to 74
7 lessons · about 2 h
- The Red Scare and McCarthyism 17 min
- Civil rights in the 1950s: Brown, Montgomery and Little Rock · video 18 min
- Protest and progress, 1960 to 1965 · video 18 min
- Malcolm X, Black Power and civil rights, 1963 to 1975 · video 18 min
- Other protest movements: students, women and anti-Vietnam 17 min
- Nixon and Watergate 16 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 1: South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948 to 94
7 lessons · about 2 h
- Setting up apartheid, 1948 to 1954 17 min
- The growth of apartheid, 1955 to 1959 15 min
- Verwoerd and grand apartheid, 1955 to 1966 17 min
- Resisting apartheid, 1955 to 1978 18 min
- P.W. Botha's response to resistance, 1978 to 1990 17 min
- Dismantling apartheid, 1990 to 1994 16 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: A1 The origins and course of the First World War, 1905 to 18
7 lessons · about 2 h
- The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905 to 1914 16 min
- The growth of tension in Europe, 1905 to 1914 17 min
- The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western Front 17 min
- The war at sea and Gallipoli 17 min
- The defeat of Germany, 1917 to 1918 16 min
- Why Germany lost the war, 1917 to 1918 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: A2 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905 to 24
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
- Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905 to 1914 17 min
- Opposition to the Tsar and the February Revolution, 1917 · video 16 min
- The Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution · video 17 min
- Bolshevik consolidation and the Civil War, 1917 to 1921 · video 17 min
- Totalitarianism, War Communism and the NEP, 1918 to 1924 · video 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: A3 The USA, 1918 to 41
7 lessons · about 2 h
Paper 2: A4 The Vietnam Conflict, 1945 to 75
7 lessons · about 2 h
- The struggle against France for independence, 1945 to 1954 16 min
- US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 1964 · video 18 min
- The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 1968 · video 18 min
- Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 1973 · video 16 min
- Opposition, peace and US failure in Vietnam · video 18 min
- The impact of the war on civilians and attitudes in the USA 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: A5 East Germany, 1958 to 90
9 lessons · about 2 h 30 min
- The Berlin Wall crisis, 1958 to 1963 16 min
- Building the Berlin Wall and the world's reaction, 1958 to 1963 16 min
- Stabilisation and control in the GDR, 1962 to 1987 17 min
- The SED, the Stasi and the border, 1961 to 1989 16 min
- Life in the GDR: social change, 1962 to 1987 16 min
- Women, youth, sport and the churches in the GDR 16 min
- Ostpolitik: relations with West Germany, 1969 to 1987 16 min
- The Peaceful Revolution, 1987 to 1990 18 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B1 America: from new nation to divided union, 1783 to 1877
6 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
- Building a new nation, 1783 to 1809 17 min
- Westward expansion and Native American removal, 1803 to 1849 17 min
- Slavery, the South and the causes of secession, 1850 to 1861 17 min
- Civil War and the end of slavery, 1861 to 1865 17 min
- A more perfect union? 1865 to 1877 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B2 Changes in medicine, c1848 to c1948
7 lessons · about 2 h
- Progress in the mid-19th century: Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson 17 min
- Discovery and development, 1860 to 1875: Pasteur and Lister 16 min
- Pasteur, Koch and the race for vaccines, 1861 to 1890 17 min
- Accelerating change, 1875 to 1905: Koch, Ehrlich and chemistry 17 min
- Government action and war, 1905 to 1920 16 min
- Advances in medicine and the NHS, 1920 to 1948 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B3 Japan in transformation, 1853 to 1945
7 lessons · about 2 h
- Japan opens up to the West, 1853 to 1867 16 min
- Transformation under the Meiji, 1867 to 1895 17 min
- From unequal treaties to a modern state, 1854 to 1890 17 min
- An emerging power, 1895 to 1919 16 min
- Political and economic challenges, 1919 to 1931 16 min
- Depression, empire and collapse, 1931 to 1945 18 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900 to 89
10 lessons · about 2 h 55 min
- The fall of the Qing, warlordism and chaos, 1900 to 1934 18 min
- The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934 to 1949 17 min
- From the Long March to victory, 1934 to 1949 17 min
- Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 1957 · video 16 min
- Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year Plan · video 17 min
- The Great Leap Forward and economic reform · video 18 min
- The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red Guards · video 17 min
- Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 1976 · video 17 min
- China, 1976 to 1989: Deng's reforms and Tiananmen 18 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B5 The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919 to c2011
7 lessons · about 1 h 55 min
- The creation and successes of the League, 1919 to 1929 16 min
- The League challenged, 1930 to 1939 16 min
- Setting up the United Nations and its work to 1964 17 min
- The UN challenged, 1967 to 1989 16 min
- Peacekeeping in a divided world, 1964 to 1989 16 min
- The UN at bay, 1990 to 2011 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B6 The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919 to 2011
7 lessons · about 1 h 55 min
- The changing nature of warfare, 1919 to 1939 16 min
- Changing methods of warfare, 1939 to 1945 17 min
- Nuclear and guerrilla war, 1945 to 1975 17 min
- Conventional war and 'new' wars, 1976 to 2000 17 min
- Changing methods of warfare, 2000 to 2011 16 min
- The 'war on terror' and new technology, 2001 to 2011 16 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B7 The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917 to 2012
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
- Build-up of tension in Palestine, 1917 to 1946 17 min
- The creation of Israel, 1948 to 1949, and the Suez Crisis of 1956 17 min
- Tension and conflict, 1956 to 1973 17 min
- Diplomacy, peace and wider war, 1973 to 1983 16 min
- The search for a lasting peace, 1987 to 2012 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min
Paper 2: B8 Diversity, rights and equality in Britain, 1914 to 2010
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
- The fight for recognition, 1914 to 1928 16 min
- The impact of Depression and war, 1928 to 1945 17 min
- Consequences of war and the end of empire, 1944 to 1962 17 min
- Changes in civil rights, c1962 to 86 17 min
- Changes in opportunity and culture, 1986 to 2010 17 min
- International GCSE History exam skills 18 min