EDEXCEL IGCSE HISTORY 4HI1
History is an enjoyable way of learning to understand the world in which we live. It is full of extraordinary characters and events, both inspirational and shocking. Our history students are regularly challenged to understand complex connections and to consider parallels between historical and contemporary events. GCSE History is viewed by universities and professional bodies as a rigorous academic qualification. It helps develop important skills, particularly the ability to handle information, to communicate ideas fluently and to view evidence critically.
This course has the following four units:
Unit 1: Depth study 3: Development of a Dictatorship: Germany, 1918-45
• The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
• The recovery of Germany, 1924-29
• The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
• Nazi Germany 1933-39
• Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
Unit 2: Depth Study 7: A Divided Union: Civil Rights in the USA, 1945-74
• 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
Unit 3: Historical Investigation A2: Russia and the Soviet Union
• Tsarist rule in Russia, 1905-1914
• 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)
Unit 4: Breadth study in change B2: Changes in Medicine, c.1848-c.1948
• Progress in the mid-19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
• Discovery and development, 1860-75; Lister and Pasteur
• Accelerating change, 1875-1905; Ehrlich, Koch & chemistry
• Government action and war, 1905-20
Examination
The subject is examined in two papers of one and a half hours each, comprising a mixture of extended writing and essay based questions.