4 domains · 13 topics
Mastered In progress Not started Higher tier
H1
Paper 1: Medicine in Britain c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18
2 topicsH2A
Paper 2A: Period study — Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
3 topics- H2A.1The origins of the Cold War 1941–58: wartime conferences (Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam), the Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, Cominform and Comecon, Berlin Blockade and airlift, NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- H2A.2Cold War crises 1958–70: the Berlin Wall (1961), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) and the Prague Spring (1968); arms race and brinkmanship
- H2A.3The end of the Cold War 1970–91: détente and SALT, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979), Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative, Gorbachev (glasnost and perestroika), the fall of the Berlin Wall and dissolution of the USSR
H2B
Paper 2B: British depth — Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
3 topics- H2B.1Queen, government and religion 1558–69: Elizabeth’s court and Privy Council, the religious settlement of 1559 and its challenges, Catholic and Puritan responses
- H2B.2Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad 1569–88: Mary Queen of Scots, the Northern Rebellion (1569), Catholic plots (Ridolfi, Throckmorton, Babington), relations with Spain and Ireland
- H2B.3Elizabethan society in the age of exploration 1558–88: education, leisure, the gentry (Hardwick Hall), the Poor Laws, voyages of discovery (Drake, Raleigh and the Roanoke colony)
H3
Paper 3: Modern depth — Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
5 topics- H3.1The Weimar Republic 1918–29: origins (abdication, armistice), the constitution, early threats (Spartacist 1919, Kapp Putsch 1920, Munich Putsch 1923), hyperinflation, the Stresemann era and Weimar culture
- H3.2Hitler’s rise to power 1919–33: foundation and growth of the NSDAP, the impact of the Depression, the Nazi appeal in 1932, Hitler becomes Chancellor January 1933
- H3.3Nazi control and dictatorship 1933–39: Reichstag fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, death of Hindenburg; the police state (SS, Gestapo, courts), propaganda (Goebbels), churches and resistance
- H3.4Life in Nazi Germany 1933–39: women, young people (Hitler Youth, BDM), workers (DAF, KdF, Strength through Joy), employment, persecution of minorities and the development of antisemitic policy (Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht)
- H3.5Source skills for Paper 3: evaluating two contemporary sources for an enquiry, considering provenance and tone; "how convincing" interpretation analysis questions