History: every topic explained

AS: France, 1774-1814

• The causes and immediate outcomes of the 1789 Revolution
• Why French governments were unstable, 1790-1795
• Why Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory in 1799
• Napoleon's domestic aims and achievements, 1799-1814

AS: The Industrial Revolution in Britain, 1750-1850 (exams to Nov 2026)

• The causes of the Industrial Revolution
• The rapid growth of industrialisation after 1780
• Urbanisation and its consequences
• Popular protest and political change

AS: Liberalism and nationalism in Germany, 1815-1871

• The causes of the Revolutions of 1848-49
• The consequences of the 1848-49 Revolutions
• Bismarck's intentions for Prussia and Germany, 1862-1866
• How and why German unification was achieved by 1871

AS: The Russian Revolution, 1894-1921

• The causes and outcomes of the 1905 Revolution up to 1914
• The February Revolution of 1917
• How and why the Bolsheviks gained power in October 1917
• Bolshevik consolidation of power, 1917-1921

A Level: The origins and development of the Cold War, 1941-1950

• Tensions in the wartime alliance and peace-making, 1941-1945
• Increasing tensions in a divided Europe, 1945-1947
• The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade
• Historians' approaches to the origins of the Cold War

A Level: The globalisation of the Cold War, 1950-1975 (exams to Nov 2026)

• The death of Stalin and peaceful coexistence
• Crises in Europe: Hungary, Berlin and the Prague Spring
• The Cold War in Asia: Korea and Vietnam
• The Cuban Missile Crisis

A Level: The nuclear arms race, 1945-1991 (exams to Nov 2026)

• The development of the nuclear arms race
• The impact of the arms race on US-Soviet relations
• Attempts to control nuclear weapons

A Level: The end of the Cold War, 1975-1991 (exams to Nov 2026)

• Détente and the outbreak of the Second Cold War
• Problems facing the USSR
• The impact of Reagan and Gorbachev
• The collapse of the Soviet system, 1989-1991