1. Standard Grade History
What you need to know

2. Three topics:
Unit I: Changing Life in Scotland and Britain Context B: 1830s-1930s
Unit II: International Cooperation and Conflict Context A: 1890s-1920s
Unit III: People and Power Context C: Russia

3. Unit I: Changing Life in Scotland and Britain Context B: 1830s-1930s
Population: Growth and movement
Technology and change: Coal mining Railways
Health and Housing: In the countryside In towns
Changes in work: On the land In coal mines
Parliamentary Reform: Extending voting rights Women’s campaign to get the vote

4. Unit II: International Cooperation and Conflict Context A: 1890s-1920s
Causes of WWI including: Alliances Naval Arms Race Tension in the Balkans Sarajevo and the outbreak of war
Experience of war: Soldiers on the Western Front Civilians in Britain Civilians in Germany
New technology and its effects: Tanks Gas machine guns Aeroplanes Artillery
Treaty of Versailles and treatment of Germany
League of Nations

5. Unit III: People and Power Context C: Russia 1914-1941
Nature of Tsarist government
Discontent under the Tsar: Economic hardship Political opposition Effects of First World War
February Revolution, 1917: Provisional government – formation & characteristics Abdication of Tsar Nicholas
Discontent under Provisional Government: Demands for “Peace, bread and land”
October Revolution, 1917
Civil War between Bolsheviks, (Reds) and Whites
Lenin and Bolshevik Government War Communism New Economic Policy
Activities of Communist government under Stalin including: Five year Plans Collectivisation Political Purges Stalin and the Kulaks