AQA
AQA GCSE History (8145)
Spec code 8145 · v2016 · valid from 2016
4 domains · 23 topics
Mastered In progress Not started Higher tier
H1
Germany 1890–1945: Democracy and Dictatorship (period study)
7 topics- H1.1Germany and the growth of democracy: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s rule, German society and economy, the impact of the First World War, abdication and revolution 1918–1919
- H1.2The Weimar Republic: the constitution, early threats from left and right (Spartacist, Kapp, Munich putsch), Stresemann era, Weimar culture
- H1.3The rise of the Nazi Party 1919–1933: Hitler’s leadership, the Nazi Party’s ideology and tactics, impact of the Depression, why Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933
- H1.4Establishment of the Nazi dictatorship 1933–1934: Reichstag fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, death of Hindenburg and the oath to Hitler
- H1.5Control and opposition 1933–1939: police state (SS, Gestapo, courts), propaganda (Goebbels, rallies, censorship), churches, youth (Hitler Youth) and resistance
- H1.6Changes in the lives of German people 1933–1939: women, workers, education, persecution of minorities and the development of antisemitic policy to 1939
- H1.7Germany during the Second World War: the Final Solution, total war on the home front, growing opposition (White Rose, July Bomb Plot) and impact of bombing/defeat
H2
Conflict and tension 1918–1939 (wider world depth)
4 topics- H2.1Peacemaking: the aims of the Big Three (Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau), the Treaty of Versailles, the other peace treaties and reactions in Germany
- H2.2The League of Nations: aims, structure, agencies, successes and weaknesses in the 1920s; the Manchurian crisis 1931 and the Abyssinian crisis 1935
- H2.3The origins and outbreak of WWII: Hitler’s foreign policy aims, rearmament and the Rhineland 1936, Anschluss 1938, the Sudetenland and Munich Agreement
- H2.4Appeasement and its consequences: arguments for and against appeasement, Czechoslovakia 1939, Nazi-Soviet Pact, invasion of Poland and outbreak of war
H3
Britain: Health and the People c1000–present (thematic study)
8 topics- H3.1Medieval medicine c1000–c1500: the influence of Galen and the Church, Hippocratic theory of the four humours, hospitals, surgery and barber-surgeons
- H3.2Public health in the Middle Ages: monasteries, town conditions and water supply; the Black Death — beliefs about its causes, treatments and responses
- H3.3The Medical Renaissance c1500–c1700: Vesalius (anatomy), Paré (surgery), Harvey (circulation); printing press, Royal Society and challenge to Galen
- H3.4Dealing with disease in the 16th–17th centuries: continuity in remedies, role of the apothecary; the Great Plague of 1665 and contemporary responses
- H3.5The 18th–19th century revolution in medicine: Jenner and vaccination, Pasteur’s germ theory, Koch and bacteriology, Lister and antiseptics
- H3.6Public health reform in the 19th century: Edwin Chadwick, the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts, John Snow, Joseph Bazalgette and London’s sewers
- H3.7The fight against germs in the 20th century: magic bullets, penicillin (Fleming, Florey, Chain), mass production and antibiotic-resistant bacteria today
- H3.8Modern healthcare: the Liberal Reforms 1906–1911, Beveridge Report and creation of the NHS in 1948; the impact of technology, surgery and genetics from 1948
H4
Elizabethan England c1568–1603 (British depth)
4 topics- H4.1Elizabeth’s court and Parliament: the role of the monarch, the Privy Council and key advisers (Cecil, Walsingham); challenges of Parliament and patronage
- H4.2Life in Elizabethan times: gentry homes (Hardwick Hall), changing role of women, the poor and Poor Laws, leisure and theatre (Globe, Marlowe, Shakespeare)
- H4.3Troubles at home and abroad: the religious settlement of 1559, the threat from Mary Queen of Scots, plots (Ridolfi, Throckmorton, Babington), and the Spanish Armada 1588
- H4.4The historic environment of Elizabethan England: a specified site (e.g. the Globe Theatre); contextual analysis of features, function and significance of the site