Cambridge · A Level · Syllabus 9489
History
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Form 5 · Lower 6 4 topics
- Historical skills: sources, interpretations and essays Provenance (author, date, purpose, audience), content, tone and context; comparing sources (agreement and disagreement, with reasons); evaluating reliability and utility; using sources to test a hypothesis.
- Modern Europe: the French Revolution and Napoleon Financial crisis (war debts, inefficient taxation), social inequality (the three estates and privilege), Enlightenment ideas, poor harvests and bread prices, the weakness of Louis XVI, and the calling of the Estates-General.
- Modern Europe: liberalism, nationalism and the Russian Revolution The 1848 revolutions; German unification under Prussia (Zollverein, Bismarck, wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870–71); Italian unification (Cavour, Garibaldi).
- International history: imperialism and the First World War Motives for imperial expansion (economic, strategic, political, ideological); the Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference (1884–85); resistance and its outcomes; effects on international relations (Fashoda 1898, Moroccan crises).
Form 6 · Upper 6 2 topicsExam year
- International history: the inter-war years and the road to war Successes in the 1920s; the Locarno treaties (1925); the Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928); failures in Manchuria (1931) and Abyssinia (1935–36); reasons for failure.
- International history: the Cold War and decolonisation Wartime conferences; Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe; Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan; Berlin Blockade; NATO and the Warsaw Pact; interpretations (orthodox, revisionist, post-revisionist).