GCSE and IGCSE History

Boards

Edexcel, AQA, OCR, CIE, WJEC

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Each immersive one day course covers a core GCSE/IGCSE option, providing expert structured revision of key content.

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We clarify which options students wish to study and aspects that are of most concern to individual students based on a detailed analysis of their requirements before the course. This will ensure that our tutors design a bespoke programme and cover relevant examination questions and techniques during the course.

Example one day course:

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Conflict and tension: The inter - war

years, 1918 - 1939

Key content:

Part one: Peacemaking

• The armistice: aims of the peacemakers; Wilson and the Fourteen Points; Clemenceau and Lloyd George; the extent to which they achieved their aims.

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•  The Versailles Settlement: Diktat; territorial changes; military restrictions; war guilt and reparations.

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• Impact of the treaty and wider settlement: reactions of the Allies; German objections; strengths and weaknesses of the settlement, including the problems faced by new states.

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Part two: The League of Nations and international peace

• The League of Nations: its formation and convenant; organisation; membership and how it changed; the powers of the League; the work of the League's agencies; the contribution of the League to peace in the 1920s, including the successes and failures of the League, such as the Aaland Islands, Upper Silesia, Vilna, Corfu and Bulgaria.

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• Diplomacy outside the League: Locarno treaties and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

• The collapse of the League: the effects of the Depression; the Manchurian and Abyssinian crises and their consequences; the failure of the League to avert war in 1939.

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Part three: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War

• The development of tension: Hitler's aims and Allied reactions; the Dollfuss Affair; the Saar; German rearmament, including conscription; the Stresa Front; Anglo-German Naval Agreement.

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• Escalation of tension: remilitarisation of the Rhineland; Mussolini, the Axis and the AntiComintern Pact; Anschluss; reasons for and against the policy of appeasement; the Sudeten Crisis and Munich; the ending of appeasement.

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• The outbreak of war: the occupation of Czechoslovakia; the role of the USSR and the NaziSoviet Pact; the invasion of Poland and outbreak of war, September 1939; responsibility for the outbreak of war, including that of key individuals: Hitler, Stalin and Chamberlain.

Key information
 

Class size

• Our experience shows that small groups create the right balance between discussion and independent learning with tutors able to devote considerable time to individual students.

• Classes are never larger than eight at GCSE. They are very rarely smaller than three.

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Dates: Revision School

• Our intensive revision courses run throughout the Easter holidays starting at 9am and ending at 5pm each day.

• There is an hour for lunch and short morning and afternoon breaks.

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£125 per day