mrbuddhistory.com
  • Home
  • Shop
  • iGCSE
  • IBDP
    • Paper 1
    • Paper 2 >
      • Topic 10: Authoritarian States
      • Topic 12: The Cold War >
        • 1. Causes of the Cold War >
          • 1. What role did ideology play in the Grand Alliance?
          • 2. How did wartime disagreements affect the alliance?
          • 3. Did Soviet expansionism end the alliance?
          • 4. Was US exceptionalism to blame?
          • 5. Did events in Asia exacerbate tensions?
          • 6. Were tensions over Germany the final straw?
          • 7. Summary: Who was to blame for the Cold War?
        • 2. Conflict & Confrontation >
          • 1. How did competition unfold in Asia?
          • 2. What conflicts emerged in Europe?
          • 3. How did the Cold War shape the Middle East?
          • 4. Were tensions in the Americas unexpected?
          • 5. Why did the Cold War spread to Africa?
          • 6. How did scientific change drive the conflict?
          • 7. Summary: Who won the global struggle?
        • 3. Detente and Coexistence >
          • 1. Did peaceful coexistence work?
          • 2. What did detente achieve?
          • 3. Why did detente fail?
          • 4. Summary: Was detente a failure?
        • 4. China and the Cold War >
          • 1. Why were Sino-Soviet relations so turbulent?
          • 2. How did Sino-American relations change?
          • 3. What other relations did China cultivate?
          • 4. Summary: When did China become a global power?
        • 5. End of the Cold War >
          • 1. Did the USSR decay from within?
          • 2. Did Ronald Reagan win the war?
          • 3. Was Mikhail Gorbachev to blame?
          • 4. What role did people power play?
          • 5. Why did the USSR finally collapse?
          • 6. Summary: Who, or what, ended the Cold War?
        • 6. Leaders, Crises and Nations >
          • 1. What was the impact of leaders?
          • 2. How significant were Cold War crises?
          • 3. In what ways were nations affected?
          • 4. Summary: What was the role of leaders, crises and nations?
        • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3 - Asia/Oceania >
      • Topic 9: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912
      • Topic 11: Japan 1912-1990
      • Topic 12: China and Korea 1910-1950
      • Topic 14: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005
      • Topic 15: Cold War Conflicts in Asia >
        • 1. The Malayan Emergency >
          • 1. What triggered conflict in Malaya?
          • 2. How did the Emergency evolve?
          • 3. Why was the insurgency defeated?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Emergency?
          • 5. Summary: Why was communism defeated?
        • 2. The Korean War >
          • 1. What caused the Korean War?
          • 2. How did the Korean War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Korean War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Korean War?
          • 5. Summary: Was the Korean War a turning point?
        • 3. The French Indochina War >
          • 1. What caused the French Indochina War?
          • 2. How did the French Indochina War evolve?
          • 3. How was the war in Indochina resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Indochina War?
          • 5. Summary: What accounts for the French defeat?
        • 4. The Vietnam War >
          • 1. What caused the Vietnam War?
          • 2. How did the Vietnam War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Vietnam War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Vietnam War?
          • 5. Summary: Was the Vietnam War inevitable?
        • 5. The Cambodian Civil War >
          • 1. What caused the Cambodian Civil War?
          • 2. How did the Cambodian Civil War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Civil War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Cambodian Civil War?
          • 5. Summary: Who can be blamed for events in Cambodia?
        • 6. The Soviet Afghan War >
          • 1. Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
          • 2. How did the Soviet-Afghan war evolve?
          • 3. How was the Soviet Union defeated?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Soviet-Afghan war?
          • 5. Summary: Why did the USSR withdraw?
        • Exam Questions
  • Links
    • is globalpolitics
    • is history
    • is humanities

Resources to Buy

IGCSE/GCSE History Revision Guides


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.
View Cart

1. Century of Change: China 1911-89

The 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.
Price - £4.99

30-page revision booklet in PDF format.

Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

2. The Rise of Nazi Germany: 1918-45

Germany 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.
Price - £4.99

38-page revision booklet in PDF format.

Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

3. The First World War: 1905-1918

The 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.
Price - £4.99

54-page revision booklet in PDF format.

Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

4. The Cold War: 1945-1991

The 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.
Price - £4.99

49-page revision booklet in PDF format.

Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

5. The USA: 1917-1941 

The 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.
Price - £4.99

41-page revision booklet in PDF format.
Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

6. Civil Rights in the USA: 1945-1974

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.
Price - £4.99

63-page revision booklet in PDF format.
Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart

7. Russia in Revolution: 1914-1924

Russia 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
Price - £4.99

27-page revision booklet in PDF format.
Buy Now
Add to Cart
View Cart
MRBUDDHISTORY.COM was created in 2012 in order to support the learning of students in History. The site is devoted to creating high-quality and accessible teaching and learning resources for history education and other humanities subjects. 
  • Home
  • Shop
  • iGCSE
  • IBDP
    • Paper 1
    • Paper 2 >
      • Topic 10: Authoritarian States
      • Topic 12: The Cold War >
        • 1. Causes of the Cold War >
          • 1. What role did ideology play in the Grand Alliance?
          • 2. How did wartime disagreements affect the alliance?
          • 3. Did Soviet expansionism end the alliance?
          • 4. Was US exceptionalism to blame?
          • 5. Did events in Asia exacerbate tensions?
          • 6. Were tensions over Germany the final straw?
          • 7. Summary: Who was to blame for the Cold War?
        • 2. Conflict & Confrontation >
          • 1. How did competition unfold in Asia?
          • 2. What conflicts emerged in Europe?
          • 3. How did the Cold War shape the Middle East?
          • 4. Were tensions in the Americas unexpected?
          • 5. Why did the Cold War spread to Africa?
          • 6. How did scientific change drive the conflict?
          • 7. Summary: Who won the global struggle?
        • 3. Detente and Coexistence >
          • 1. Did peaceful coexistence work?
          • 2. What did detente achieve?
          • 3. Why did detente fail?
          • 4. Summary: Was detente a failure?
        • 4. China and the Cold War >
          • 1. Why were Sino-Soviet relations so turbulent?
          • 2. How did Sino-American relations change?
          • 3. What other relations did China cultivate?
          • 4. Summary: When did China become a global power?
        • 5. End of the Cold War >
          • 1. Did the USSR decay from within?
          • 2. Did Ronald Reagan win the war?
          • 3. Was Mikhail Gorbachev to blame?
          • 4. What role did people power play?
          • 5. Why did the USSR finally collapse?
          • 6. Summary: Who, or what, ended the Cold War?
        • 6. Leaders, Crises and Nations >
          • 1. What was the impact of leaders?
          • 2. How significant were Cold War crises?
          • 3. In what ways were nations affected?
          • 4. Summary: What was the role of leaders, crises and nations?
        • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3 - Asia/Oceania >
      • Topic 9: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912
      • Topic 11: Japan 1912-1990
      • Topic 12: China and Korea 1910-1950
      • Topic 14: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005
      • Topic 15: Cold War Conflicts in Asia >
        • 1. The Malayan Emergency >
          • 1. What triggered conflict in Malaya?
          • 2. How did the Emergency evolve?
          • 3. Why was the insurgency defeated?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Emergency?
          • 5. Summary: Why was communism defeated?
        • 2. The Korean War >
          • 1. What caused the Korean War?
          • 2. How did the Korean War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Korean War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Korean War?
          • 5. Summary: Was the Korean War a turning point?
        • 3. The French Indochina War >
          • 1. What caused the French Indochina War?
          • 2. How did the French Indochina War evolve?
          • 3. How was the war in Indochina resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Indochina War?
          • 5. Summary: What accounts for the French defeat?
        • 4. The Vietnam War >
          • 1. What caused the Vietnam War?
          • 2. How did the Vietnam War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Vietnam War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Vietnam War?
          • 5. Summary: Was the Vietnam War inevitable?
        • 5. The Cambodian Civil War >
          • 1. What caused the Cambodian Civil War?
          • 2. How did the Cambodian Civil War evolve?
          • 3. How was the Civil War resolved?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Cambodian Civil War?
          • 5. Summary: Who can be blamed for events in Cambodia?
        • 6. The Soviet Afghan War >
          • 1. Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
          • 2. How did the Soviet-Afghan war evolve?
          • 3. How was the Soviet Union defeated?
          • 4. What was the impact of the Soviet-Afghan war?
          • 5. Summary: Why did the USSR withdraw?
        • Exam Questions
  • Links
    • is globalpolitics
    • is history
    • is humanities