GCSE and IGCSE History
Boards
Edexcel, AQA, OCR, CIE, WJEC
Each immersive one day course covers a core GCSE/IGCSE option, providing expert structured revision of key content.
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:
Conflict and tension: The inter - war
years, 1918 - 1939
Key content:
Part one: Peacemaking
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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.
Part two: The League of Nations and international peace
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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.
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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.
Part three: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War
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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.
