Organising your revision

Factual-description questions

 

In the first paper, you know that you will meet:

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A source extraction question (3 marks)

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A reliability question (6 marks)

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A factual-description question (6 marks)

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An analysis question (10 marks).

  

You can get most of the way to a Grade C purely by doing well on the first three only of these.

In particular, you can prepare totally for the factual/description question, because the syllabus lists the events/facts that you might be quizzed about.  

  

Make sure, therefore, that you could give a detailed answer if you are asked about any of the following:

  

 

FOR PAPER ONE

 

Interwar period

  1. Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau – their views and motives

  2. Terms of the Treaty of Versailles

  3. Aims, and membership/ organisation/ powers of the League of Nations

  4. Peacekeeping role and work of the League of Nations in the 1920s

  5. Manchuria (1931-2)

  6. Abyssinia (1935-6)

  7. The story of appeasement, 1935-1939, including:
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    The Sudeten crisis and the Munich Agreement

  8. Czechoslovakia , March 1939 and the abandonment of appeasement

  9. The Nazi-Soviet Pact

  10. The invasion of Poland and the outbreak of war

 

The Cold War

  1. Decisions made at Yalta and Potsdam

  2. Attitudes of Stalin and Truman

  3. Soviet expansion into Central and Eastern Europe

  4. The Iron Curtain

  5. The Truman Doctrine

  6. The Marshall Plan

  7. Berlin 1945-1948, including:
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    The Berlin Blockade and airlift, 1948-1949

  8. The events of the Korean War

  9. Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful co-existence

  10. Increasing tension, including:
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    NATO and the Warsaw Pact

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    The arms race and the space race

  11. Hungary , 1956

  12. The U2 incident, 1960

  13. The Berlin Wall, 1961

  14. Kennedy’s visit to Berlin , 1963

  15. Events leading up to the Cuba crisis, including the Bay of Pigs

  16. The events of the crisis of 1962

   

  

And also swot up on these:

 

FOR PAPER TWO

 

Germany

  1. Problems of the Weimar republic, 1918-1924, including:
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    Spartacists

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    Kapp Putsch

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    Munich Putsch

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    Invasion of the Ruhr , 1923

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    Hyperinflation

  2. Dawes Plan

  3. Young Plan

  4. The role and achievement of Stresemann

  5. Founding and early history of the Nazi Party, including:
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    25 Point Programme and Mein Kampf

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    decline in support in Stresemann years

  6. The crisis of 1932-3, and Hitler’s invitation to become Chancellor

  7. Reichstag Fire, 1933

  8. How Hitler established a dictatorship, including:
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    the Enabling Act

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    the Night of the Long Knives

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    the role of the SS and the Gestapo

  9. The life of different groups of Germans under the Nazis, including
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    Nazi treatment of Gypsies, homosexuals, Jews, mentally and physically disabled

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    women

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    workers and the economy

  10. Nazi Youth policies

  11. Nazi control of the media

 

Russia

  1. The government of Nicholas II

  2. Impact of WWI on Russia

  3. Role and effect of Rasputin

  4. Story of March revolution and Nicholas’s abdication

  5. Problems facing the Provisional Government

  6. Bolshevik revolution of November 1917

  7. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  8. The events of the Civil War, 1918-1921

  9. War Communism

  10. Kronstadt Mutiny

  11. New Economic Policy

  12. Story of how Stalin took power

  13. Stalin’s agricultural policy – collectivisation

  14. Stalin’s Industrial policy – the 5 Year Plans

  15. Stalin’s terror, esp the Purges