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https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/502955-2021-2023-syllabus.pdf
Modern Europe: 1750 - 1921

  • France: 1774 - 1814
    • Questions:
      • What were the causes and outcomes of the 1789 revolution?
        • The ancient regime: problems and policies of Louis XVI
        • Pressure for changes
        • Reaction of Louis XVI to attempts at reform
        • Responses to Louix XVI’s actions: storming of the Bastille, March of the women, the August Decrees
      • Why were French governments unstable from 1790 to 1795?
      • Why was Napoleon able to overthrow the Directory in 1799?
      • What were Napoleon Bonaparte’s domestic aims and achievements?
  • The industrial revolution in Britain, 1750 - 1850
    • Questions:
      • What were the causes of the industrial revolution?
      • Why was there rapid growth of industrialisation after 1780?
      • Why did urbanisation result from industrialisation?
      • Why did industrialisation result in popular protest and political change?
  • Liberalism and nationalism in Germany, 1815-1871
  • The Russian revolution, 1894 - 1921

History of the USA, 1820 - 1941

  • Origins of civil war, 1820 - 61
  • Civil war and reconstruction, 1861-1877
  • Gilged age and progressive era: 1870s to 1920
  • Great crash, the great depression and the new deal policies, 1920 - 41

International history, 1870 - 1945

  • Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870 - 1919
  • League of nations and international relations in the 1920s
  • League of nations and international relation in the 1930s
  • China and Japan, 1912 - 45

International history, 1945 - 92

  • US-Soviet relations during the Cold war, 1950-91
  • Spread of communism in East and Southeast Asia, 1945-91
  • Decolonisation, the Cold war and the UN in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1950-92
  • Conflict in the middle east, 1948-91