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CCEA GCSE History topic questions

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

  1. U1.A.1The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party 1919–1933: Treaty of Versailles, Weimar weaknesses, the 1923 Putsch and 1930s breakthrough5 questions →
  2. U1.A.2Consolidation of power 1933–34: Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives4 questions →
  3. U1.A.3Nazi rule: terror, propaganda, education, youth movements, role of women, religion5 questions →
  4. U1.A.4Persecution and the Holocaust: anti-Semitic policy, ghettoes, Final Solution4 questions →
  5. U1.A.5Opposition to the Nazis: church, youth groups (White Rose, Edelweiss Pirates), army (1944 plot)4 questions →
  6. U1.B.1NI politics 1965–69: Terence O’Neill’s reforms; civil rights movement; Burntollet, Bogside, deployment of the British army4 questions →
  7. U1.B.2Direct rule and the Troubles 1969–1985: internment, Bloody Sunday, hunger strikes; the Anglo-Irish Agreement5 questions →
  8. U1.B.3The peace process 1985–98: Hume–Adams talks, ceasefires, the Downing Street Declaration, the Good Friday Agreement4 questions →
  9. U1.B.4The role of the Republic of Ireland, the UK government, paramilitary groups and the USA4 questions →
  10. U2.A.1Origins of the Cold War 1945–55: Yalta and Potsdam, the Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan4 questions →
  11. U2.A.2Crises 1955–1968: Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall 1961, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, Czechoslovakia 19684 questions →
  12. U2.A.3Détente and the end of the Cold War: 1970s thaw, USSR collapse, fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification4 questions →
  13. U2.B.1Partition of Ireland 1920–22: Government of Ireland Act, Anglo-Irish Treaty, civil war4 questions →
  14. U2.B.2Northern Ireland under unionist rule 1921–1939: Stormont, sectarianism and economic difficulties4 questions →
  15. U2.B.3WWII: Belfast Blitz, NI’s role in the war, attitude of the Republic4 questions →
  16. U3.SK1Skill: identifying a focused historical question relevant to the local area or period3 questions →