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History

Day & Time 1 Tuesday - 09:30
Wednesday - 13:00
Level i / GCSE 2yr
Board Edexcel
Course Duration 2 year
Lesson Duration 45 mins
Lessons per week 2
Price £1633
History Teacher
Jade Hicks
Portrait of English teacher Jade Hicks

Topics

Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
  • The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
  • The recovery of Germany, 1924–29
  • The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
  • Nazi Germany 1933–39
  • Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
  • The Red Scare and McCarthyism
  • Civil rights in the 1950s
  • The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74
  • Other protest movements: students, women, anti–Vietnam
  • Nixon and Watergate
Investigation: The USA, 1918–41
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Increased social tensions in the 1920s
  • The USA in Depression, 1929–33
  • Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933–41
  • The Opposition to the New Deal
Breadth Studies: Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948
  • Progress in the mid19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
  • Discovery and development, 1860–75; Lister and Pasteur
  • Accelerating change, 1875–1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry
  • Government action and war, 1905–20
  • Advances in medicine, surgery and public health 1920–48; the NHS
Revision
  • Revision of all components of Edexcel iGCSE History Papers 1 & 2
  • Past Papers
  • Mock Exam