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Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) History 4HI1
128 points in 2 topics, with Edexcel's codes and titles.
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P1 Depth Studies
- 1 The French Revolution, c1780–99
- 1.1 The origins of the Revolution, c1780–87
- 1.2 Short-term causes of the Revolution, 1787–89
- 1.3 Developments 1789–92
- 1.4 Convention and Terror, 1792–94
- 1.5 Directory and First Consul, 1794–99
- 2 Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848–70
- 2.1 The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states
- 2.2 Developments in Piedmont, 1849–54
- 2.3 The defeat of Austria, 1854–59
- 2.4 Garibaldi and the Papal States
- 2.5 Venice and Rome and the extent of unification by 1870
- 3 Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
- 3.1 The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
- 3.2 The recovery of Germany, 1924–29
- 3.3 The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
- 3.4 Nazi Germany 1933–39
- 3.5 Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
- 4 Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919–47
- 4.1 The Rowlatt Acts, Amritsar and the Government of India Act, 1919
- 4.2 Gandhi and Congress, 1919–27
- 4.3 Key developments, 1927–39
- 4.4 The impact of the Second World War on India
- 4.5 Communal violence, independence and partition, 1945–47
- 5 Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924–53
- 5.1 The leadership struggle, 1924–29
- 5.2 Five-year Plans and collectivisation
- 5.3 Purges, show trials, the cult of Stalin and the revision of history
- 5.4 Life in the Soviet Union, 1924–41
- 5.5 The Second World War and after, 1941–53
- 6 A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
- 6.1 Reasons for the Cold War
- 6.2 Early developments in the Cold War, 1945–49
- 6.3 The Cold War in the 1950s
- 6.4 Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
- 6.5 The Thaw and moves towards Détente, 1963–72
- 7 A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
- 7.1 The Red Scare and McCarthyism
- 7.2 Civil rights in the 1950s
- 7.3 The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74
- 7.4 Other protest movements: students, women, anti–Vietnam
- 7.5 Nixon and Watergate
- 8 South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948–94
- 8.1 Setting up apartheid, 1948–54
- 8.2 The growth of apartheid, 1955–59
- 8.3 Resisting apartheid, 1955–78
- 8.4 PW Botha – response to resistance, 1978–90
- 8.5 Dismantling Apartheid, 1990–94
P2 Investigation and Breadth Studies
- A1 The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18
- A1.1 The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905–14
- A1.2 The growth of tension in Europe, 1905–14
- A1.3 The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western Front
- A1.4 The war at sea and Gallipoli
- A1.5 The defeat of Germany
- A2 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24
- A2.1 Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905–14
- A2.2 Opposition to Tsarist rule and the February Revolution, 1914–17
- A2.3 Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution
- A2.4 The Bolshevik consolidation of power and the Civil War
- A2.5 War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)
- A3 The USA, 1918–41
- A3.1 The Roaring Twenties
- A3.2 Increased social tensions in the 1920s
- A3.3 The USA in Depression, 1929–33
- A3.4 Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933–41
- A3.5 The Opposition to the New Deal
- A4 The Vietnam Conflict, 1945–75
- A4.1 The struggle against France for independence, 1945–54
- A4.2 US policy and intervention, 1954–64
- A4.3 Confrontation in the Vietnam War, escalation 1964–68
- A4.4 Nixon and Ford’s policies – Vietnamisation, peace and Communist victory, 1969–75
- A4.5 Impact on civilians in Vietnam and attitudes in the USA
- A5 East Germany, 1958–90
- A5.1 The Berlin Wall crisis, 1958–63
- A5.2 Stabilisation and control: the GDR, 1962–87
- A5.3 Life in the GDR – social change, 1962–87
- A5.4 Ostpolitik – relations with the Federal Republic, 1969–87
- A5.5 The Peaceful Revolution, 1987–90
- B1 America: from new nation to divided union, 1783–1877
- B1.1 Building a new nation, 1783–1809
- B1.2 Westward expansion and Native American removal, 1803–49
- B1.3 Slavery, the South and the causes of secession, 1850–61
- B1.4 Civil War and the end of slavery, 1861–65
- B1.5 A More Perfect Union? 1865–77
- B2 Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948
- B2.1 Progress in the mid-19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
- B2.2 Discovery and development, 1860–75; Lister and Pasteur
- B2.3 Accelerating change, 1875–1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry
- B2.4 Government action and war, 1905–20
- B2.5 Advances in medicine, surgery and public health 1920–48; the NHS
- B3 Japan in transformation, 1853–1945
- B3.1 Japan opening up to China and the West, 1853–67
- B3.2 Transformation, 1867–1895
- B3.3 An emerging power, 1895–1919
- B3.4 Political and economic challenges, 1919–31
- B3.5 Depression, empire and collapse, 1931–45
- B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89
- B4.1 The fall of the Qing, Warlordism and chaos, 1900–34
- B4.2 The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934–49
- B4.3 Change under Mao, 1949–63
- B4.4 The Cultural Revolution and its impact, 1965–76
- B4.5 China, 1976–89
- B5 The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011
- B5.1 The creation and successes of the League, 1919–29
- B5.2 The League challenged, 1930–39
- B5.3 Setting up the United Nations Organisation and its work to 1964
- B5.4 The UN challenged, 1967–89
- B5.5 The UN at bay, 1990–2011
- B6 The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919–2011
- B6.1 The changing nature of warfare, 1919–39
- B6.2 Changing methods of warfare by land, air and sea, 1939–45
- B6.3 Nuclear and guerrilla war versus conventional war, 1945–75
- B6.4 Conventional war and the development of ‘new’ wars, 1976–2000
- B6.5 Changing methods of warfare at the beginning of the 21st century, 2000–2011
- B7 The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917–2012
- B7.1 Build up of tension in Palestine, 1917–46
- B7.2 Creation of Israel, the 1948–49 war and Suez, 1956
- B7.3 Tension and conflict, 1956–73
- B7.4 Diplomacy, peace then wider war, 1973–83
- B7.5 The attempts to find a lasting peace, 1987–2012
- B8 Diversity, rights and equality in Britain, 1914-2010
- B8.1 The fight for recognition, 1914-1928
- B8.2 The impact of Depression and war, 1928-45
- B8.3 Consequences of war and the end of empire, 1944-62
- B8.4 Changes in civil rights, c1962-1986
- B8.5 Changes in opportunity and culture, 1986-2010