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A Level History

AS History

THE HISTORY OF WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1880-1939

Wales and England in transition, c.1880-1929

  • Living and working conditions, c.1880

  • The Liberal reforms, 1906-1914

  • The impact of World War I on the Home Front

  • The decline of staple industries after 1919 and the General Strike of 1926

British foreign policy, c.1902-1939

  • British foreign policy, 1902-1914

  • Britain's role in the build up to the Great War

  • Britain's role in the Great War and the Peace Conferences

  • British foreign policy in the inter-war periodBritain and the outbreak of World War II

NAZI GERMANY c.1933-1939

The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship

The roles of propaganda, indoctrination and terror in the Third Reich.

Nazi social, religious and racial ideology and policy.

The nature and organisation of the Nazi political system.

Nazi economic policy: recovery and rearmament

Nazi foreign policy up to 1939

2010 - present

2010 - present

A Level History

THE HISTORY OF WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1880-1980

Depression and austerity, 1929-1951

  • The economic impact of the 1930s

  • The impact of the Depression years on life in Wales and England

  • How World War II affected life on the Home Front

  • The reforms of the Labour governments, 1945-1951

Britain and Europe, c.1880-1980

  • Changing British attitudes to Europe up to 1914

  • Developments in British foreign policy in the inter-war period

  • Changing relations with Europe post-1945

NAZI GERMANY, c.1939-1945

Germany and the Final Solution

“The Holocaust was a result of Hitler’s unswerving conviction that the antichrist - Jewry must be exterminated.” How valid is this assessment of the Holocaust?

Coursework: 4000 words

Germany: war and defeat, c. 1939-1945

  • The impact of Blitzkrieg and Total War

  • German successes in Western Europe and the collapse of France.

  • The invasion of the Soviet Union.

  • The impact of German occupation on the peoples, regions and countries of Europe

  • The defeat of Germany and liberation of Europe

  • The post-war settlement

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