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History 8145
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Free History 8145 study notes for AQA GCSE students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Paper 1 Section A: Period studies
AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation
AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism
AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality
Paper 1 Section B: Wider world depth studies
BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918
BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939
BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972
BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009
Paper 2 Section A: Thematic studies
AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
AB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day
AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day
Paper 2 Section B: British depth studies with historic environment
BA Norman England, c1066-c1100
BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307
BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603
BD Restoration England, 1660-1685
Source and interpretation skills
Analysing and evaluating contemporary sources (utility, provenance)
Comparing and evaluating historical interpretations
Writing narrative accounts of cause and consequence
Judgement essays: significance, similarity/difference, change
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