EDEXCEL History (4HI1) IGCSE Topic Questions

Paper 1: Depth Studies

1 The French Revolution, c1780–99

1 The origins of the Revolution, c1780–87

2 Short-term causes of the Revolution: from Assembly of Notables to Estates General, 1787–89

3 Developments 1789–92

4 Convention and Terror, 1792–94

5 Directory and First Consul – the fall of Robespierre to the rise of Napoleon, 1794–99

2 Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848–70

1 The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states

2 Developments in Piedmont, 1849–54

3 The defeat of Austria, 1854–59

4 Garibaldi and the Papal States

5 Venice and Rome and the extent of unification by 1870

3 Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–4

1 The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems

2 The recovery of Germany, 1924–29

3 The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933

4 Nazi Germany 1933–39

5 Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War

4 Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919–47

1 The Rowlatt Acts, Amritsar and the Government of India Act, 1919

2 Gandhi and Congress, 1919–27

3 Key developments, 1927–39

4 The impact of the Second World War on India

5 Communal violence, independence and partition, 1945–47

5 Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924–53

1 The leadership struggle, 1924–29

2 Five-year Plans and collectivisation

3 Purges, show trials, the cult of Stalin and the revision of history

4 Life in the Soviet Union, 1924–41

5 The Second World War and after, 1941–53

6 A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72

1 Reasons for the Cold War

2 Early developments in the Cold War, 1945–49

3 The Cold War in the 1950s

4 Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia

5 The Thaw and moves towards Détente, 1963–72

7 A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74

1 The Red Scare and McCarthyism

2 Civil rights in the 1950s

3 The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74

4 Other protest movements: students, women, anti–Vietnam

5 Nixon and Watergate

8 South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948–94.

1 Setting up apartheid, 1948–54

2 The growth of apartheid, 1955–59

3 Resisting apartheid, 1955–78

4 PW Botha – response to resistance, 1978–90

5 Dismantling Apartheid, 1990–94

Paper 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies

A1 The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18

1 The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905–14

2 The growth of tension in Europe, 1905–14

3 The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western Front

4 The war at sea and Gallipoli

5 The defeat of Germany

A2 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24

1 Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905–14

2 Opposition to Tsarist rule 1914–17: the impact of war and the February Revolution

3 Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution

4 The Bolshevik consolidation of power and the Civil War

5 War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)

A3 The USA, 1918–41

1 The Roaring Twenties

2 Increased social tensions in the 1920s

3 The USA in Depression, 1929–33

4 Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933–41

5 The Opposition to the New Deal

A4 The Vietnam Conflict, 1945–75

1 The struggle against France for independence, 1945–54

2 US policy and intervention, 1954–64

3 Confrontation in the Vietnam War, escalation 1964–68

4 Nixon and Ford’s policies – Vietnamisation, peace and Communist victory, 1969–75

5 The impact of conflict on civilians in Vietnam and attitudes in the USA

A5 East Germany, 1958–90.

1 The Berlin Wall crisis, 1958–63

2 Stabilisation and control: the GDR, 1962–87

3 Life in the GDR – social change, 1962–87

4 Ostpolitik – relations with the Federal Republic, 1969–87

5 The Peaceful Revolution, 1987–90

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

1 Building a new nation, 1783–1809

2 Westward expansion and Native American removal, 1803–49

3 Slavery, the South and the causes of secession, 1850–61

4 Civil War and the end of slavery, 1861–65

5 A More Perfect Union? 1865–77

B2 Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948

1 Progress in the mid19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson

2 Discovery and development, 1860–75; Lister and Pasteur

3 Accelerating change, 1875–1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry

4 Government action and war, 1905–20

5 Advances in medicine, surgery and public health 1920–48; the NHS

B3 Japan in transformation, 1853–1945

1 Japan opening up to China and the West, 1853–67

2 Transformation, 1867–1895

3 An emerging power, 1895–1919

4 Political and economic challenges, 1919–31

5 Depression, empire and collapse, 1931–45

B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89

1 The fall of the Qing, Warlordism and chaos, 1900–3

2 The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934–49

3 Change under Mao, 1949–63

4 The Cultural Revolution and its impact, 1965–76

5 China, 1976–89

B5 The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011

1 The creation and successes of the League, 1919–29

2 The League challenged, 1930–39

3 Setting up the United Nations Organisation and its work to 1964

4 The UN challenged, 1967–89

5 The UN at bay, 1990–2011

B6 The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919–2011

1 The changing nature of warfare, 1919–39

2 Changing methods of warfare by land, air and sea, 1939–45

3 New forms of conflict – nuclear and guerrilla war versus conventional war, 1945–75

4 Conventional war and the development of ‘new’ wars, 1976– 2000

5 Changing methods of warfare at the beginning of the 21st century, 2000–2011

B7 The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917–2012.

1 Build up of tension in Palestine, 1917–46

2 The creation of Israel, the war of 1948–49 and the Suez Crisis of 1956

3 Tension and conflict, 1956–73

4 Diplomacy, peace then wider war, 1973–83

5 The attempts to find a lasting peace, 1988– 2012