- H1.B.1Medieval medicine c1250–c1500: theory of the four humours (Hippocrates/Galen), the role of the Church and supernatural beliefs, hospitals, surgery, the Black Death (causes, treatments, prevention)3 questions →
- H1.B.2The Renaissance c1500–c1700: Vesalius (anatomy), Paré (surgery), Harvey (circulation); the printing press and the Royal Society; the Great Plague 1665; continuity in everyday treatment3 questions →
- H1.B.3The 18th–19th centuries c1700–c1900: Jenner and the smallpox vaccine; Pasteur’s germ theory; Koch and bacteriology; Lister and antiseptics; Simpson and chloroform; the cholera epidemics, John Snow and the Broad Street pump; Chadwick and the Public Health Acts; Florence Nightingale3 questions →
- H1.B.4Modern medicine c1900–present: magic bullets (Salvarsan 606, Prontosil); Fleming, Florey and Chain (penicillin); the NHS and the Beveridge Report; advances in surgery, transplants, DNA and modern lifestyle disease (cancer, heart disease)3 questions →
- 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 Pact3 questions →
- H2A.2Cold War crises 1958–70: the Berlin Wall (1961), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) and the Prague Spring (1968); arms race and brinkmanship3 questions →
- 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 culture3 questions →
- 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 19333 questions →
- 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 resistance3 questions →
- 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)3 questions →