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My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) History
Alec Fisher, Rob Quinn, Rob Bircher, Kirsty Taylor
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) History
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Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel Qualifications

Exam board: Pearson Edexcel
Level: International GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019

Target success in Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.

Key content coverage is combined with exam practice questions and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.

With My Revision Notes every student can:

- Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner

- Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage

- Test understanding and identify areas for improvement with regular revision tasks

- Improve exam technique through practice questions and tips

- Learn and use key terms for each topic

This revision guide covers the following studies:
- Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918-45
- A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72
- A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74
- Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-24
- The USA, 1918-41
- Changes in medicine, c1848-c1948
- China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900-89

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9781398300705
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Introduction
Guide to the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE History examination
Section 1 Depth Studies
1 Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
1.1 The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
1.2 The recovery of Germany, 1924–29
1.3 The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
1.4 Nazi Germany, 1933–39
1.5 Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
2 A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
2.1 Reasons for the Cold War
2.2 Early developments in the Cold War, 1945–49
2.3 The Cold War in the 1950s
2.4 Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
2.5 The Thaw and moves towards Détente, 1963–72
3 A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
3.1 The Red Scare and McCarthyism
3.2 Civil rights in the 1950s
3.3 The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74
3.4 Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam
3.5 Nixon and Watergate
Section 2A Historical Investigations
4 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24
4.1 Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905–14
4.2 Opposition to Tsarist rule, 1914–17: the impact of war and the February Revolution
4.3 Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution
4.4 The Bolshevik consolidation of power and the Civil War
4.5 War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)
5 The USA, 1918–41
5.1 The Roaring Twenties
5.2 Increased social tensions in the 1920s
5.3 The USA in Depression, 1929–33
5.4 Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933–41
5.5 The opposition to the New Deal
Section 2B Breadth Studies
6 Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948
6.1 Progress in the mid-nineteenth century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
6.2 Discovery and development, 1860–75; Lister and Pasteur
6.3 Accelerating change, 1875–1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry
6.4 Government action and war, 1905–20
6.5 Advances in medicine, surgery and public health, 1920–48; the NHS
7 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89
7.1 The fall of the Qing dynasty, warlordism and chaos, 1900–34
7.2 The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934–49
7.3 Change under Mao, 1949–63
7.4 The Cultural Revolution and its impact, 1965–76
7.5 China, 1976–89
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