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History (8HI0)
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Free History (8HI0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Paper 1: Breadth study with interpretations
The crusades, c1095–1204
England, 1509–1603: authority, nation and religion
Britain, 1625–1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform
Russia, 1917–91: from Lenin to Yeltsin
In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917–96
Germany and West Germany, 1918–89
Britain transformed, 1918–97
Paper 2: Depth study
Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053–1106
England and the Angevin Empire in the reign of Henry II, 1154–89
Luther and the German Reformation, c1515–55
The Dutch Revolt, c1563–1609
France in revolution, 1774–99
Russia in revolution, 1894–1924
The unification of Italy, c1830–70
The unification of Germany, c1840–71
Mao’s China, 1949–76
The German Democratic Republic, 1949–90
India, c1914–48: the road to independence
South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’
The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911–46
Spain, 1930–78: republicanism, Francoism and the re-establishment of democracy
The USA, c1920–55: boom, bust and recovery
The USA, 1955–92: conformity and challenge
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