IGCSE/GCSE History Revision Guides
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Due to popular demand, I will be self-publishing my IGCSE revision guides which you can purchase and download here. These guides are full of the detailed factual knowledge about each event that you need to get an 9/A*. Each event is broken down into causes, course and consequences to help you identify the key points quickly and concisely. They also feature diagrams, pictures and a revision checklist to help you revise thoroughly.
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1. Century of Change: China 1911-89The first revision guide in this series, China 1911-1989 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 30-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: 1911 Revolution; May Fourth Movement; Warlord Period; Rise of the CCP/KMT; Northern Expedition; Shanghai Massacre; Long March; War with Japan; Chinese Civil War; Mao's Early Changes; First Five-Year-Plan; Hundred Flowers Campaign; Great Leap Forward; Cultural Revolution; Gang of Four; Changes under Deng Xiaoping; Democracy Movement; Tiananmen Square Massacre. |
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30-page revision booklet in PDF format.  
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2. The Rise of Nazi Germany: 1918-45Germany 1918-1945 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 38-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: German Revolution; Weimar Constitution; Treaty of Versailles; Ruhr Crisis and Hyperinflation; Sparticist Uprising; Kapp Putsch; Stresemann Era; Creation of the Nazi Party; Munich Putsch; Reorganisation of the Nazi Party; Wall Street Crash; Growth of the Nazi Party; Why the Nazis won Power; Removal of Opposition; Nazi Police State; The Church in Nazi Germany; Censorship and Propaganda; Youth and Education; Women in Nazi Germany; The Nazi Economy; Persecution of the Jews; The Final Solution; Opposition to Hitler; Defeat and Death of Hitler. |
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38-page revision booklet in PDF format.
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3. The First World War: 1905-1918The First World War 1905-1918 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 54-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: Alliances; Economic, Imperial, and Military Causes, Balkan Rivalries, Bosnian Crisis, Balkan Wars, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Naval Race, First and Second Moroccan Crises, Schlieffen Plan, The Trench System, New Weapons, Reasons for Stalemate, Battle of the Somme, Third Battle of Ypres, Douglas Haig, Gallipoli Campaign, War at Sea, German U-boat Campaign, US Entry, Spring Offensives, Defeat of Germany. |
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54-page revision booklet in PDF format.
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4. The Cold War: 1945-1991The Cold War 1945-1991 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 49-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: Long-term Rivalry; Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences; Soviet Take-over of Eastern Europe; Iron Curtain Speech; Kennan and Novikov's Telegrams; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; COMINFORM and COMECON; Berlin Blockade; NATO; Korean War; Warsaw Pact; Hungarian Uprising; Berlin Crisis; U2 Incident; Arms Race; Space Race; Cuban Missile Crisis; Prague Spring; Vietnam War; Rise and Fall of Détente; Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan; The Second Cold War; Solidarity in Poland; The End of the Cold War. |
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49-page revision booklet in PDF format.
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5. The USA: 1917-1941The USA 1917-1941 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 41-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: The impact of the First World War; Tariff reforms; Red Scare; Immigration reforms; The Sacco & Vanzetti Case; Mass Production and the Motor Industry; The Economic Boom; The Stock Market Boom; Economic Problems 1922-29; Prohibition and Organised Crime; The Roaring Twenties; Changing Roles of Women; The Scopes Monkey Trial; Racial Discrimination; The Wall Street Crash; The Great Depression; Hoover's Economic Policies; The 1932 Presidential Election; The New Deal and 100 Days; The Second New Deal; Opposition to the New Deal; Successes and Failures of the New Deal; The Impact of the Second World War. |
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41-page revision booklet in PDF format.
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6. Civil Rights in the USA: 1945-1974
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Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1974 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 63-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist, revision diagrams, timeline and test-yourself questions to help you revise.
Events covered: Causes of the Red Scare; The Hollywood Ten; The Alger Hiss Case; The Rosenberg Case; The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism; Black Civil Rights in the 1950s; The Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Decision; Little Rock High School Incident; The Montgomery Bus Boycott; The Greensboro Sit-ins; The Freedom Riders; The Birmingham Campaign; The March on Washington; The Civil Rights Act; Selma to Montgomery Marches; The Voting Rights Act; The Significance and Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam; The Black Power Movement and Black Panthers; Causes of the Student Protest Movement; Key Features of the Student Protest Movement; Causes and Key Features of the Women's Rights Movement; Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. |
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63-page revision booklet in PDF format.   
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7. Russia in Revolution: 1914-1924Russia in Revolution 1914-1924 provides a detailed study of the key events of this period, broken down into cause, course and effects. At 27-pages long, it also comes with a revision checklist and revision diagrams to help you revise.
Events covered: The First World War; Impact of the War on Russia; The Influence of Rasputin; The February Revolution; The Provisional Government; The Petrograd Soviet; Return of the Bolsheviks; The Kornilov Affair; The October Revolution; The Bolshevik Consolidation of Power; The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; The Russian Civil War; War Communism; The Kronstadt Uprising; The New Economic Policy; The Death of Lenin |
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27-page revision booklet in PDF format.
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