GCSE History Revision
Paper 1: Monday 1st June.
Attempt one of the Past Paper exams or exam questions (copies with Miss Widnall/Madame Bell)
Question timings:
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Describe question: Take 5 minutes.
Source question: 13 minutes
Bullet Point essay question: 17 minutes.
Knowledge Revision (Paper 1 content sheet with Miss Widnall/Madame Bell)
Make a Mind Map/Flash Cards on:
Causes of WW1:
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Alliance system (Triple Entente, Triple Alliance, Entente Cordiale, Anglo-Russian Agreement,
Franco-Russian agreement)
Morocco Crisis: 1905, 1911 (there are 2! What happened? Who involved? How a cause of
war?)
Bosnian Crisis: 1908 (What happened? Who involved? How a cause of war?)
Arms Race/Naval Race (What happened? Who involved? How a cause of war?)
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (What happened? Who involved? How a cause of war?)
Steps to war (Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia, Britain and Belgium)
Schlieffen Plan (What happened? Who involved? How a cause of war?)
Treaty of Versailles:
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The Big 3: Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George (Their aims? How happy was each with the
final treaty)
The treaty: Military terms, territorial terms, War Guilt, reparations, was it a Diktat?
League of Nations:
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Structure (what did Council, Assembly, Court, Secretariat do?)
Powers (Moral, Sanctions, military: how did each work? Why were they not effective?)
Why did the League fail to keep peace and prevent war? Case studies: 1. Manchuria Crisis
(What happened? What did the League do? Why did the League fail?) 2. Abyssinia Crisis
(What happened? What did the League do? Why did the League fail?)
Hitler’s aims and actions in Foreign policy 1933-1938:
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1933-1935: Leaves League, re-armament, naval agreement with Britain, non-aggression pact
with Poland, Saar plebiscite (can you describe and explain each event?)
1936: Re-militarizes the Rhineland (What happened? Hitler’s explanation/justification? Why
did Britain/France or the League not stop him? Why is this a cause of war?)
1938: Anschluss (What happened? Hitler’s explanation/justification? Why did Britain/France
or the League not stop him? Why is this a cause of war?)
Appeasement and the causes of WW2:
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Appeasement (What is this? Why did Chamberlain follow this policy? Why did it not work?
Why is it a cause of war?)
1938: Sudetenland/Munich Conference (What happened? Hitler’s explanation/justification?
Why did Britain/France not stop him? Why is this a cause of war?)
1939: Czechoslovakia (What happened? Hitler’s explanation/justification? Why did
Britain/France not stop him? Why is this a cause of war?)
1939: Nazi-Soviet pact (What happened? Why is this a cause of war?)
1939: Invasion of Poland (What happened? Britain/France’s reaction? Why is this a cause of
war?)