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Curriculum
Year 1

  • Introduction to History
  • Life in the Middle Ages
  • The Black Death
  • Religion and Power
  • The Crusades
  • The English Reformation

Year 2

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • Life in Industrial Britain
  • Empire and Slavery
  • The British in India

Year 3

  • World War I and its Effects
  • The Russian Revolution
  • America: Boom and Bust
  • Causes of World War II

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (Years 4-5)

Paper 1: Depth Studies

Dictatorship and Conflict in the USSR, 1924–53

  • The leadership struggle, 1924–29
  • Five-Year Plans and Collectivization
  • Purges, Show Trials, the Cult of Stalin, and the Revision of History
  • Life in the Soviet Union, 1924–41
  • The Second World War and After, 1941–53

A Divided Union: Civil Rights in the USA, 1945–70

  • The Red Scare and McCarthyism
  • Civil Rights in the 1950s
  • The Impact of Civil Rights Protests, 1960–74
  • Other Protest Movements: Students, Women, Anti-Vietnam
  • Nixon and Watergate

Paper 2: Breadth Studies

Russia and the Soviet Union in Revolution, 1905–24

  • Tsarist Rule in Russia, 1905–14
  • Opposition to Tsarist Rule, 1914–17
  • The Impact of War and the February Revolution
  • Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution
  • The Bolshevik Consolidation of Power and the Civil War
  • War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)

The Changing Role of International Organizations: The League and the UN, 1919–2011

  • Creation and Successes of the League, 1919–29
  • Challenges to the League, 1930–39
  • Establishing the United Nations and Its Work to 1964
  • The UN Challenged, 1967–89
  • The UN at Bay, 1990–2011

Pearson Edexcel IAS – Year 6

Paper 1: Germany, 1918–45

  • The Democratic Experience, 1918–29
  • The Rise of the Nazis, 1919–33
  • Nazi Germany, 1933–39
  • Germany at War, 1939–45

Paper 2: India, 1857–1948 – The Raj to Partition

  • The British Raj: Governance in India, 1857–1948
  • Resistance to British Rule, 1857–1948
  • Military Power and Its Limits, 1857–1948
  • The Economics of Empire, 1857–1948

Pearson Edexcel IAL – Year 7

Paper 3: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1865–2009

  • 'Free at Last', 1865–77
  • The Triumph of 'Jim Crow', 1883–c1900
  • Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933–45
  • 'I Have a Dream', 1954–68
  • Race Relations and Obama’s Campaign for the Presidency, c2000–2009

Paper 4: The World Divided – Superpower Relations, 1943–90

  • Seeds of Conflict: How Did the Cold War Develop, 1943–53?
  • Conciliation and Confrontation, 1953–64
  • Stalemate and Détente, 1964–79
  • Renewed Confrontation and Resolution, 1980–90

 

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