GCSE History

Board-specific GCSE History for AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas - covering every set topic with deep causation analysis, source evaluation, interpretation practice, key events, key figures, model answers and grade 9 exam technique.

Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm 1890-1914: Autocracy, Industrialisation and Weltpolitik

The Weimar Republic 1918-1929: Revolution, Crisis and Fragile Recovery

The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party 1919-1933

Nazi Germany 1933-1945: Dictatorship, Terror, Propaganda, Economy and Persecution

The Paris Peace Conference 1919: Context, Aims and the Big Three

The Treaty of Versailles 1919: Terms, Reactions and German Response

The Other Peace Treaties: St Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sevres, Lausanne

Why the Peacemakers Made the Decisions They Did: Pressures and Constraints

The League of Nations: Structure, Aims and Membership

The League in the 1920s: Early Successes and Failures

The League in the 1930s: Manchuria, Abyssinia and Collapse

Why the League Failed: Structural Weaknesses vs External Pressures

Hitler's Foreign Policy: Aims, Ideology and Early Steps 1933-36

Remilitarisation, Anschluss and the Sudetenland Crisis

Appeasement: Causes, Chamberlain's Motives and Historical Debate

The Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Outbreak of War

AQA Source Analysis: How to Answer the 8-Mark Source Question

AQA Interpretation Question: How to Answer the 16-Mark Question

Grade 9 Model Answers: Conflict and Tension 1918-1939

Origins of the Cold War: Grand Alliance, Yalta and Potsdam 1945

Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe and the Iron Curtain

Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade 1947-49

NATO, the Arms Race and the Korean War 1950-53

Hungarian Uprising 1956: Causes, Events and Consequences

The Berlin Wall 1961: Causes, Construction and Significance

The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Causes, Crisis and Resolution

Detente and the Limits of Superpower Rivalry 1963-72

AQA Cold War: Source Analysis and Interpretation Technique

Grade 9 Model Answers: Cold War

American Society in the 1920s: Boom, Prosperity and the Jazz Age

The Roaring Twenties: Prohibition, Organised Crime and Social Change

Racism and Inequality: The KKK, Jim Crow and the Red Scare

The Wall Street Crash 1929 and the Great Depression

Roosevelt's New Deal: Policies, Opposition and Effectiveness

Post-War America: Prosperity, the Red Scare and McCarthyism

Civil Rights 1950-65: NAACP, Montgomery, Little Rock, Sit-Ins

MLK, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Act 1964-65

Vietnam and the Anti-War Movement 1964-73

AQA America: Source and Interpretation Practice

Grade 9 Model Answers: America 1920-1973

Medieval Medicine c1000-1500: Theory, Humoural Medicine and the Church

Medieval Treatments, Hospitals and the Role of Women

The Black Death 1348: Causes, Responses and Consequences

The Renaissance and a Revolution in Medicine: Vesalius, Harvey, Sydenham

The Great Plague of London 1665: Government Response and Limits of Knowledge

Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccination: Discovery, Resistance and Impact

The Germ Theory: Pasteur, Koch and the Revolution in Understanding Disease

Public Health in the 19th Century: Cholera, Snow, Chadwick and the 1848 Act

Surgery in the 19th Century: Anaesthetics, Antiseptics and Simpson vs Lister

The Fight Against Disease in the 20th Century: Magic Bullets, Penicillin, DNA

Modern Surgery: Transplants, Blood Transfusions and High-Tech Medicine

The National Health Service: Origins, Impact and Challenges

Government and Public Health: Smoking, Obesity and Modern Challenges

AQA Health and People: How to Answer the Thematic Change Question

AQA Health and People: 16-Mark Importance Question Technique

Grade 9 Model Answers: Health and the People

Migration, Empires and the People c1066-present: Medieval Migration and Jewish Communities

Empire, Trade and Enslavement: East India Company, British Raj and Abolition

Twentieth-Century Migration: Windrush, Commonwealth Immigration and Race Relations Acts

Migration and Modern Britain: EU Migration, Refugees and Contemporary Debate

Elizabeth I: Background, Personality, Character and the Problem of a Female Ruler

Elizabeth's Government: Privy Council, Parliament and the Problem of Marriage

Religious Settlement 1559: The Middle Way, the Church of England and Challenges

Mary Queen of Scots: The Threat, Imprisonment and Execution 1587

Catholic Plots: The Northern Earls, Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington

Spain and Philip II: Growing Tension and the Spanish Armada 1588

Essex's Rebellion 1601 and the End of the Reign

Elizabethan Society: Education, the Poor Law and Social Tensions

Exploration and Colonisation: Drake, Raleigh and the New World

Leisure, Culture and the Theatre in Elizabethan England

The Historic Environment: How to Analyse Sites, Sources and Context

AQA Elizabethan England: Exam Technique for All Question Types

Grade 9 Model Answers: Elizabethan England

England Before the Norman Conquest: Anglo-Saxon Society, Earls and the Succession Crisis

The Battle of Hastings 1066: Causes, Tactics, Events and Consequences

William's Consolidation of Power: Castles, the Harrying of the North, Domesday Book

The Feudal System and Norman Society: Land, Loyalty and Control

The Norman Church: Lanfranc, Reform and the Power of the Archbishop

Rebellions Against William: Earls' Revolt, Edgar Atheling and the North

William Rufus and Henry I: Succession and Continued Norman Rule