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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?
- What were the causes and outcomes of the 1789 revolution?
- Questions:
- 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?
- Questions:
- 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