History Revision

Below you will find resources to help you revise for the History exams.

Exam	Date	Time	Duration
History: Paper 1 The Elizabethan Age (1hr) (25% of grade) and Paper 2 Germany in Transition (1hr) (25% of grade)	Monday 4 June	09.00	2hrs
History: Paper 3 The Development of the USA (45mins) (20% of grade) and Paper 4 Crime and Punishment (1hr 15 mins) (30% of grade)	Friday 8 June	13.15	2hrs

Main content to revise

Paper 1: Elizabethan government, Lifestyles of the rich and poor, Popular entertainment, The problem of religion, The Catholic threat, The Spanish Armada, The puritan threat.
Paper 2: Impact of the First World War, Recovery of Weimar, End of the Weimar Republic, Consolidation of Nazi power, Nazi economic, social and racial policy, Terror and persuasion, Hitler’s foreign policy.
Paper 3: Economic downturn and recovery, The economic impact of the Second World War and post war developments, The issues of civil rights 1941-70, Political change 1960 – 2000, Social change 1950 – 2000, Cold War rivalry, The search for world peace since 1970.
Paper 4: Causes of crime, Nature of crimes, Enforcing law and order, Methods of combating crime, Methods of punishment, Attitudes to crime and punishment, Study of a historical site (the East End of London in the late nineteenth century).

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