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SQA Advanced Higher History C837 77

110 points in 10 topics, with SQA's codes and titles.

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1 Northern Britain from the Iron Age to 1034

1.1 Iron Age and Celtic society
1.2 Roman military invasions
1.3 Roman occupation and its impact
1.4 Changing beliefs
1.5 Pictish society
1.6 Kingdoms of the Britons and the Angles
1.7 Kingdom of the Scots
1.8 Viking invasions and impact
1.9 Formation of the Kingdom of Alba
1.10 Kingdom of Alba, to 1034

2 Field of study 2 — Scotland: independence and kingship, 1249–1334

2.1 The kingdom under Alexander III, 1249–86
2.2 The Guardianship and the Great Cause, 1286–92
2.3 Reign of King John, 1292–96
2.4 Edward I’s occupation of Scotland, 1296–97
2.5 Contribution of William Wallace, 1297–1305
2.6 Scottish resistance and English invasions, 1298–1305
2.7 Usurpation and Civil War, 1306–09
2.8 King Robert and the war against England, 1310–23
2.9 King Robert and the governance of Scotland, 1309–20
2.10 Succession and peace, 1324–34

3 Scotland from the Union to the Enlightenment, 1707–1815

3.1 The Treaty of Union, Glasgow and the tobacco trade
3.2 Jacobite rebellions, 1715–19
3.3 The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745–46
3.4 The Highlands
3.5 Industrialisation and urbanisation
3.6 Agricultural improvement in the lowlands
3.7 The governance of Scotland
3.8 The Kirk
3.9 The Enlightenment
3.10 Education

4 Field of study 4 — USA: ‘a house divided’, 1850–65

4.1 American society in 1850
4.2 Enslavement in the antebellum period
4.3 The problem of territorial expansion
4.4 The 1860 election, secession and the outbreak of war
4.5 The military conflict
4.6 The war at home and abroad
4.7 Leadership during the Civil War
4.8 The Emancipation Proclamation and its consequences
4.9 The election of 1864
4.10 Reasons for Northern victory and Southern defeat

5 Field of study 5 — Japan: the modernisation of a nation, 1840–1920

5.1 Society and culture in the mid-19th century
5.2 Economy and government in the mid-19th century
5.3 Social, economic and political factors causing change
5.4 Foreign influences and their internal impact
5.5 Political reform and the changing position of the Emperor
5.6 Social reforms
5.7 Industrial, military and naval reforms
5.8 War with China, 1873–97
5.9 War with Russia, 1904–05
5.10 The Taisho Years

6 Field of study 6 — Germany: from democracy to dictatorship, 1918–39

6.1 German Revolution and the creation of the Weimar Republic, 1918–19
6.2 Treaty of Versailles: its political and economic significance
6.3 Political and economic crises, 1919–23
6.4 The Stresemann era: domestic and foreign policy, 1924–29
6.5 Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1929–33
6.6 The National Socialist consolidation of power, 1933–34
6.7 The nature of the National Socialist regime, 1933–39
6.8 Attempts to create a Volksgemeinschaft, 1933–39
6.9 Economic and foreign policies, 1933–39
6.10 Resistance to the regime, 1933–39

7 Field of study 7 — South Africa: race and power, 1902–84

7.1 Formation of South Africa, 1902–10
7.2 Early segregation, 1910–24
7.3 Growth of Afrikaner influence, 1924–39
7.4 South Africa and World War II
7.5 Opposition, 1910–48
7.6 Early apartheid, 1948–60
7.7 The growth of African Nationalism, 1948–60
7.8 Apartheid, 1960–84
7.9 Resistance, 1960–84
7.10 South Africa and the international community, 1960–84

8 Field of study 8 — Russia: from Tsarism to Stalinism, 1914–45

8.1 War and the breakdown of Russian society, 1914 to January 1917
8.2 The February Revolution
8.3 The Provisional Government and the October Revolution
8.4 The international context, 1917–24
8.5 The Civil War
8.6 The Soviet state: from War Communism to New Economic Policy, 1918–24
8.7 Stalin's struggle for power
8.8 Industrialisation and collectivisation
8.9 The political and social development of the Stalinist state
8.10 The Great Patriotic War

9 The Spanish Civil War, 1923–45

9.1 Condition of Spain in the 1920s
9.2 The fall of the monarchy
9.3 The nature of the new Republic
9.4 Azaña’s reforms 1931–33
9.5 The Bienio Negro — a period of reaction
9.6 The military rising of 1936
9.7 The rise of Franco
9.8 Civil War: the Spanish dimension
9.9 Civil War: the international dimension
9.10 Defeat of the Republic and the consequences of the Civil War

10 Field of study 10 — Britain: at war and peace, 1938–51

10.1 Political leadership and parties on the eve of war
10.2 The state of the nation: society, economy, defence and preparedness for war
10.3 Political leadership and the wartime government
10.4 War aims, diplomacy and alliances 1939–45
10.5 Military, naval and air strategies
10.6 The war and the British economy
10.7 The war and British society
10.8 Labour’s ‘New Jerusalem’
10.9 Imperial, foreign and military policies, 1945–51
10.10 Conservative recovery and Labour’s defeat