1. IGCSE History
What’s it all about?

2. If you could be anyone in History who would you be and why?

3. Topics to be studied Development of dictatorship: Germany 1918 – 1945
The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
The recovery of Germany
The rise of Hitler and the Nazis
Life in Nazi Germany
Germany during the second world war

4. Topics to be studied cont.
A divided union: Civil rights in the USA 1945 – 1974
McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Civil rights in the 1950s
The impact of Martin Luther King and of Black Power
Protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam
Nixon and Watergate

5. Topics to be studied Conflict, crisis and change: China, 1911 – 1989
The triumph of Mao and the CCP,
Change under Mao,
The impact of the Cultural Revolution
China after Mao,

6. Topics to be studied Russia in Revolution 1914 – 1924
The impact of the First World War
The February Revolution
The Bolshevik seizure of power
Civil War
War Communism
New Economic Party (NEP)
Will notes print

7. When?
Year 10 – Germany & China Year 11 – Russia & USA

8. What skills will I develop and use?
Chronology
Timelines
Causation, Consequences and Change
Source analysis & interpretation
Explain and make judgments
Knowledge & understanding
Comprehension, interpretation and cross-reference
Glossary
Organisation & communication

9. What about the exam? Two papers – each 1 ½ hours long
Three sections in total
Depth Studies
Historical Investigation
Breath study in Change
Paper 1 – Depth studies
Paper 2 – Historical investigation / Breath study in Change

10. A. Depth Studies (Paper 1)
Development of dictatorship: Germany 1918 – 1945 &
A divided union: Civil rights in the USA 1945 – 1974
You will be answering Q’s on BOTH topics – each topic worth 25 marks – tested on
Chronological sequencing
Description of consequence
Explanation of causation
Using source and own knowledge to give an explanation

11. B. Historical Investigation (Paper 2)
Russia in Revolution 1914 – 1924
Focus on analysis of sources
Advised to spend 45mins.
Tested on:
Source inference
Source cross-referencing
Using sources and own knowledge to evaluate a representation

12. C. Breath study in Change (Paper 2)
Conflict, crisis and change: China, 1911 – 1989
Focuses on change over time.
Advised to spend 45mins.
Tested on:
Source comprehension
Description of key features
Change over time

13. LET’S GET STARTED!!!