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AQA GCSE History topic questions

Practice questions per spec point, written in board paper style with mark-scheme answers.

  1. H1Germany 1890–1945: Democracy and Dictatorship (period study)4 questions →
  2. 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 1918–19196 questions →
  3. H1.2The Weimar Republic: the constitution, early threats from left and right (Spartacist, Kapp, Munich putsch), Stresemann era, Weimar culture6 questions →
  4. 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 19336 questions →
  5. H1.4Establishment of the Nazi dictatorship 1933–1934: Reichstag fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, death of Hindenburg and the oath to Hitler6 questions →
  6. H1.5Control and opposition 1933–1939: police state (SS, Gestapo, courts), propaganda (Goebbels, rallies, censorship), churches, youth (Hitler Youth) and resistance6 questions →
  7. H1.6Changes in the lives of German people 1933–1939: women, workers, education, persecution of minorities and the development of antisemitic policy to 19396 questions →
  8. 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/defeat6 questions →
  9. H2Conflict and tension 1918–1939 (wider world depth)3 questions →
  10. H2.1Peacemaking: the aims of the Big Three (Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau), the Treaty of Versailles, the other peace treaties and reactions in Germany6 questions →
  11. H2.2The League of Nations: aims, structure, agencies, successes and weaknesses in the 1920s; the Manchurian crisis 1931 and the Abyssinian crisis 19356 questions →
  12. H2.3The origins and outbreak of WWII: Hitler’s foreign policy aims, rearmament and the Rhineland 1936, Anschluss 1938, the Sudetenland and Munich Agreement6 questions →
  13. H2.4Appeasement and its consequences: arguments for and against appeasement, Czechoslovakia 1939, Nazi-Soviet Pact, invasion of Poland and outbreak of war6 questions →
  14. H3Britain: Health and the People c1000–present (thematic study)3 questions →
  15. H3.1Medieval medicine c1000–c1500: the influence of Galen and the Church, Hippocratic theory of the four humours, hospitals, surgery and barber-surgeons6 questions →
  16. H3.2Public health in the Middle Ages: monasteries, town conditions and water supply; the Black Death — beliefs about its causes, treatments and responses6 questions →
  17. H3.3The Medical Renaissance c1500–c1700: Vesalius (anatomy), Paré (surgery), Harvey (circulation); printing press, Royal Society and challenge to Galen6 questions →
  18. H3.4Dealing with disease in the 16th–17th centuries: continuity in remedies, role of the apothecary; the Great Plague of 1665 and contemporary responses6 questions →
  19. H3.5The 18th–19th century revolution in medicine: Jenner and vaccination, Pasteur’s germ theory, Koch and bacteriology, Lister and antiseptics6 questions →
  20. H3.6Public health reform in the 19th century: Edwin Chadwick, the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts, John Snow, Joseph Bazalgette and London’s sewers6 questions →
  21. H3.7The fight against germs in the 20th century: magic bullets, penicillin (Fleming, Florey, Chain), mass production and antibiotic-resistant bacteria today6 questions →
  22. 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 19486 questions →
  23. H4Elizabethan England c1568–1603 (British depth)3 questions →
  24. H4.1Elizabeth’s court and Parliament: the role of the monarch, the Privy Council and key advisers (Cecil, Walsingham); challenges of Parliament and patronage6 questions →
  25. H4.2Life in Elizabethan times: gentry homes (Hardwick Hall), changing role of women, the poor and Poor Laws, leisure and theatre (Globe, Marlowe, Shakespeare)6 questions →
  26. 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 15886 questions →
  27. H4.4The historic environment of Elizabethan England: a specified site (e.g. the Globe Theatre); contextual analysis of features, function and significance of the site6 questions →