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SQA National 5 History C837 75

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1 Section 1: Historical Study: Scottish

1.1 Part 1: The Wars of Independence, 1286–1328
1.1.1 The succession problem, 1286–1292
1.1.2 Balliol and Edward I 1292–1296
1.1.3 William Wallace, 1296–1305
1.1.4 Robert Bruce, 1306–1328
1.2 Part 2: Mary Queen of Scots, and the Reformation, 1542–1587
1.2.1 Mary, from the ‘Rough Wooing’ to becoming Queen of France, to 1559
1.2.2 The Reformation in Scotland, to 1587
1.2.3 Mary’s reign, 1561–1567
1.2.4 Mary in England, 1567–1587
1.3 Part 3: The Treaty of Union, 1689–1715
1.3.1 Worsening relations with England, 1689–1707
1.3.2 Arguments for and against Union
1.3.3 The passing of the Treaty of Union by the Scots Parliament
1.3.4 The impact of the Union, to 1715
1.4 Part 4: Migration and Empire, 1830–1939
1.4.1 Immigration to Scotland, 1830s–1939
1.4.2 Experience of immigrants to Scotland, 1830s–1939
1.4.3 Scottish emigration, 1830s–1939
1.4.4 Experience of Scots abroad, 1830s–1939
1.5 Part 5: The Era of the Great War, 1900–1928
1.5.1 Scots on the Western Front
1.5.2 Domestic impact of war: society and culture
1.5.3 Domestic impact of war: industry and economy
1.5.4 Domestic impact of war: politics

2 Section 2: Historical Study: British

2.1 Part 1: The Creation of the Medieval Kingdoms, 1066–1406
2.1.1 The Normans and feudal society
2.1.2 Royal power in the reign of Henry II
2.1.3 The role of the Church in the Medieval Kingdom
2.1.4 The decline of feudal society
2.2 Part 2: War of the Three Kingdoms, 1603–1651
2.2.1 Political issues, 1603–1625
2.2.2 The rule of Charles I in England and Scotland, 1625–1640
2.2.3 Challenges to royal authority
2.2.4 War and the role of Cromwell, to 1651
2.3 Part 3: The trade in enslaved African people, 1770–1807
2.3.1 The triangular trade
2.3.2 Britain and the Caribbean
2.3.3 The captives’ experience and enslaved Africans’ attempts to gain their freedom
2.3.4 The abolitionist campaigns
2.4 Part 4: Changing Britain, 1760–1914
2.4.1 Health and housing
2.4.2 Industry — textile factories and coal mines
2.4.3 Transport — canals and railways
2.4.4 Pressure for democratic reform up to 1884
2.5 Part 5: The Making of Modern Britain, 1880–1951
2.5.1 Divided society: poverty, housing; politics
2.5.2 Liberal reforms 1906–14
2.5.3 Social impact of World War II in Britain
2.5.4 Labour reforms: the Welfare State 1945–51

3 Section 3: Historical Study: European and World

3.1 Part 1: The Cross and the Crescent, the Crusades 1071–1192
3.1.1 Knights, castles and warfare
3.1.2 The First Crusade
3.1.3 The Fall of Jerusalem, 1187
3.1.4 The Third Crusade, to 1192
3.2 Part 2: ‘Tea and Freedom’, the American Revolution, 1774–83
3.2.1 Growing tension between Britain and the American colonies, to 1774
3.2.2 Colonists’ moves towards independence, 1774–1776
3.2.3 The spread of the war
3.2.4 American victory
3.3 Part 3: USA 1850–80
3.3.1 Reasons for westward expansion
3.3.2 Enslavement and the Civil War
3.3.3 Reconstruction, African-Americans and Southern reaction to defeat 1865–78
3.3.4 Defeat and demise of the Indigenous Americans of the Plains
3.4 Part 4: Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–39
3.4.1 Weimar Germany, 1919–1933
3.4.2 Nazi rise to power
3.4.3 Nazi control of Germany
3.4.4 Nazi social and economic policies
3.5 Part 5: Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894–1921
3.5.1 Imperial Russia — government and people
3.5.2 1905 Revolution — causes and events
3.5.3 February Revolution — causes, events and effects
3.5.4 October Revolution — causes, events, effects
3.6 Part 6: Mussolini and Fascist Italy, 1919–1939
3.6.1 Mussolini’s seizure of power, to 1925
3.6.2 Mussolini’s social and economic policies
3.6.3 Foreign policy
3.6.4 Opposition to Mussolini
3.7 Part 7: Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918–1968
3.7.1 The ‘Open Door’ policy and immigration, to 1928
3.7.2 ‘Separate but equal’, to 1945
3.7.3 Civil rights campaigns, to 1968
3.7.4 The ghettos and Black American radicalism
3.8 Part 8: Appeasement and the Road to War, 1918–1939
3.8.1 Paris Peace Treaties and the League of Nations, to 1933
3.8.2 Nazi foreign policy, 1933–38
3.8.3 British and French appeasement, to 1938
3.8.4 Final steps to war
3.9 Part 9: World War II, 1939–45
3.9.1 German territorial expansion 1939–43
3.9.2 War with Japan, 1941–45
3.9.3 Life in occupied Europe
3.9.4 Allied victories in Europe and Japan, 1944–45
3.10 Part 10: The Cold War 1945–89
3.10.1 Reasons for the emergence of the Cold War, up to 1955
3.10.2 Flashpoints — Hungary, Berlin, and Cuba
3.10.3 The Vietnam War
3.10.4 Changing relations between the superpowers, 1968–89