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  18th Century British History

 

  General

Study room item Why was there a demand for political reform in the late 18th and early 19th century

  Ireland

Study room item 1 Causes of Discontent in Ireland in the mid 18th century
Study room item 2 The Influence of America and France
 
 

  18th Century European History

 

  France

Study room item French Revolution: War of the First Coalition
Study room item Ideological Impact of the French Revolution
Study room item The French Revolution and the Ancient Regime
 
 

  19th Century British History

 

  Chartism

Study room item Why was the Chartist Movement formed and how successful was it in achieving its aims?

  Conservative Government

Study room item What were the results of the Repeal of the Corn Laws

  Ireland

Study room item 1 Ireland 1829-1860
Study room item 2 Ireland 1860-1868
Study room item 3 Ireland - Gladstone, Salisbury and Parnell

  Liberal Government

Study room item Assess Stratford Cannings handling of the Eastern Question
Study room item How successful was Palmerstons foreign policy 1830-41
Study room item Was Cannings foreign policy liberal
 
 

  19th Century European History

 

  Austrian Empire

Study room item Habsburg Empire - Assess Metternichs success in resolving the internal problems of the Habsburg Empire 1815-1848

  Crimean War

Study room item Did the Crimean War have greater repercussions for Western Europe than Eastern Europe

  France

Study room item France - How Far was the political and economic influence of French conservative elites weakened between 1814 and 1914?
Study room item France - Why was the Second Republic in France replaced by a Second Empire?
Study room item Napoleon - Continental System - What was Napoleon’s Continental System and why did it fail?
Study room item Were the Revolutions ideals of Liberty and Equality destroyed by Napoleons social and political reforms?

  Germany

Study room item 1 Unification of Germany - Germany in 1789
Study room item 2 Unification of Germany - Germany in 1810 - Effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Study room item 3 Unification of Germany - The Stages of Unification
Study room item 4 German Unification
Study room item 5 Bismarcks Alliance System
Study room item 6 What were the objectives of Bismarcks foreign policy 1871 - 1890

  Italy

Study room item 1 Unification of Italy
Study room item 2 Unification of Italy - Italy 1859-1870 - The Stages of Unification

  Russia

Study room item Russia - Tsarism - How did opposition to tsarism develop in the period 1861-81??
Study room item Tsarism - How far did Alexander II’s emancipation of the serfs in 1861 solve Russia’s social and economic problems during his reign?
 
 

  20th Century British History

 

  Conservative Governments

Study room item The Conservative Government 1970-74
Study room item What did Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain contribute to the Conservative Government’s achievements 1924-29?

  Foreign and Defence Policy 1957-1964

Study room item 1 Foreign and Defence Policy 1957-1964
Study room item 2 The Special Relationship
Study room item 3 The Middle East
Study room item 4 The Congo Crisis 1960-64
Study room item 5 Loas and Vietnam

  Ireland

Study room item 1 Ireland 1910-1922
Study room item 2 Ireland 1922-1981

  Labour Governments

Study room item Labour Government 1964-70
Study room item Labour Government 1974-9
Study room item What were the Achievements of the First Labour Government?
Study room item Why did Labour win the 1945 Election?
Study room item Why were the first two Labour governments not more successful?

  Liberal Party

Study room item Why did the British Liberal Party continue to decline after the First World War?

  National Government

Study room item How successful was the National Government in dealing with the domestic problems it faced?

  Unions

Study room item General Strike - Why was there a General Strike in 1926?
 
 

  20th Century European History

 

  European Community

Study room item 1 The European Community
Study room item 2 Why did Great Britain Refuse to Join the EEC
Study room item 3 Why had the British Governments attitude to EEC membership changed by the early 1960s
Study room item 4 Why did President De Gaulle of France oppose British attempts to join the EEC

  France

Study room item France - What was the attitude of France to German expansion after 1935?

  General

Study room item How Far Were Nazism and fascism alike?

  Germany

Study room item How was Hitler able to stay in power for 12 Years?
Study room item Nazi - Assess the Success of Nazi Economic Policy
Study room item Nazi - What were the aims and motives of Nazi Foreign Policy?
Study room item Nazi Germany - How effective was Albert Speer in managing the Nazi War Economy
Study room item Nazi Germany - How efficient was the Nazi War Economy 1939-42
Study room item Nazi Germany - Were the Nazis well organized
Study room item Nazi Party - Why did Hitler and the Nazi Party seem to be an attractive alternative to Weimar?
Study room item Weimar Germany - Chancellor Bruning
Study room item Weimar Germany - How much domestic support was there for Stresemanns Foreign Policy
Study room item Weimar Germany - How successful was Gustav Stresemann in the field of Foreign Policy
Study room item Weimar Germany - The Franz von Papen Government 1932
Study room item Weimar Germany - What was the Significance of Papens Coup against the Prussian state government
Study room item Were Hitlers policies Popular?
Study room item What did the Nazis offer that made them so popular?
Study room item What disadvantages did the Weimar Republic face from its beginning?
Study room item What Economic Problems did the Weimar Republic face?
Study room item Why was there so much violence in Weimar Germany?

  Italy

Study room item Aspects of Fascist Italys Economy
Study room item Fascist Foreign Policy 1922-34
Study room item Fascist Italy – Modernization
Study room item Fascist state the Reality
Study room item Forms of Opposition to Fascist Italy
Study room item Gabriele dAnnunzio
Study room item How Mussolini Came to Power
Study room item Italy and Giolittis Reforms
Study room item Italy and the 1919 Treaty
Study room item Italy and the First World War
Study room item Italy Foreign Policy 1939-43
Study room item The Growth of the Fascist Dictatorship in Italy
Study room item What part did the Corporative Theory play in the Fascist New Order in Italy
Study room item What was Fascism and why did it emerge in the years between the two world wars
Study room item What was the Impact of Fascism on Italys Class Structure ?
Study room item What were the principles underlying Fascist Economic Policy and how successful was it
Study room item Why and with what results did Italy conquer Abyssinia
Study room item Why was the Rome-Berlin Axis formed and what were the consequences

  Russia

Study room item How did Stalin gain supreme power in The Soviet Union?
Study room item How did the 5 Year Plans Affect the Workers?
Study room item How did the Bolsheviks change education in the USSR?
Study room item How did the Cult of Personality develop under Stalin?
Study room item How did the October Revolution affect women in Russia?
Study room item How did the regime employ artists and film-makers in the USSR between 1918 and 1928?
Study room item How did the Soviets react to the Stalin Cult?
Study room item How did the Soviet Union carry out Collectivization?
Study room item Kornilov - What were the consequences of the Kornilov affair?
Study room item Russia - What problems did Kerensky have to face by the end of August 1917?
Study room item Russian Revolution - How well did the Provisional Government deal with the problems it faced from April to August 1917?
Study room item Russian Revolution - Why, and with what results was there a revolution in Russia in 1905?
Study room item Soviet - Collectivization - How did collectivization progress after 1934?
Study room item Soviet - Why was there a Sino-Soviet split after 1950?
Study room item Soviet Union - How and why did Soviet foreign policy change between 1924 and 1932?
Study room item Soviet Union - How were the peasants affected by collectivization?
Study room item Soviet Union - How were the Soviet Unions 5 Year Plans organized?
Study room item Soviet Union - What was the attitude of the Soviet Union to German expansion after 1935?
Study room item Soviet Union - What were the main features of the 5 Year Plans of the 1930s?
Study room item Trotsky - Assess the role of Trotsky in the Russian Civil War
Study room item Was October 1917 a popular revolution or a coup d’etat?
Study room item Was there a Great Retreat back to family life in the Soviet Union in 1930s?
Study room item Was there much opposition to Stalin before 1934?
Study room item What interpretations can be made of Soviet foreign policy in the 1930s?
Study room item What interpretations can be made regarding the Great Purges?
Study room item What is meant by the Purges ?
Study room item What was the effect of the Bolshevik Revolution on Religion?
Study room item What was the importance of Lenin’s return in 1917?
Study room item What was the Stakhanovite Movement?
Study room item What were the aims of Lenin’s foreign policy?
Study room item Why did Stalin embark on the Purges of the 1930s?
Study room item Why did Stalin make an agreement with Hitler rather than Britain and France in 1939?
Study room item Why did the Bolsheviks set up the Comintern and why did it cause them problems?
Study room item Why did the Reds win the Russian Civil War?
Study room item Would the USSR have benefited from retaining the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
 
 

  20th Century World History

 

  China

Study room item China - How successful was Chairman Mao in dealing with the problems of China?

  Cold War

Study room item Cold War - How did the Soviet Union’s satellite Empire develop in the decade after 1945?
Study room item Cold War - How did the Truman administration attempt to contain Communism after 1945?
Study room item Cold War - Nuclear - Assess the importance of the nuclear issue in the Cold War
Study room item Cold War - Soviet Expansionism
Study room item Cold War - The Berlin Blockade (June 1948-May 1949)
Study room item Cold War - The Causes of the Cold War
Study room item Cold War - The Onset of the Cold War
Study room item Cold War - The United States and The Cold War
Study room item Cold War - The Yalta Conference
Study room item Cold War - What were the implications of the Potsdam Agreement for Europe?
Study room item Cold War - Why was the USA unable to prevent the Communist takeover of Vietnam?

  Cuba

Study room item Did the Cuban Missile Crisis extend the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere?
Study room item Why did Castro come to power in Cuba and how did this affect international relations?

  Decolonisation

Study room item Africa South of the Sahara - Decolonisation
Study room item Belgian Congo Decolonisation
Study room item Ghana Decolonisation
Study room item Kenya Decolonisation
Study room item Nigeria Decolonisation
Study room item Tanzania Decolonisation
Study room item Uganda Decolonisation
Study room item Zambia Decolonisation
Study room item Zimbabwe Decolonisation

  General

Study room item Dictatorships - How do you account for the growth of dictatorships between the wars?
Study room item The Peace Settlements of 1919
Study room item Totalitarian State - What are the key features of the Totalitarian State?

  India

Study room item How did Britain respond to the Indian demands for independence before World War II
Study room item Why and how was India partitioned in 1947?

  Middle East

Study room item Camp David
Study room item Middle East - Arab-Israeli War - What were the causes of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9?
Study room item What were the causes and consequences of the Six Day War in 1967?
Study room item What were the causes of the Suez War of 1956?

  United Nations

Study room item United Nations - Were the UNs organizational problems were inherent from its foundation?

  USA

Study room item USA - Civil Rights – Civil Rights during the Truman Presidency
Study room item USA - Civil Rights – JF Kennedy
Study room item USA - New Deal - How, and with what results did President FD Roosevelt try to resolve the problems caused by the Great Depression in the USA?
Study room item USA - Nixon’s Foreign Policy
Study room item USA - President Johnson’s Foreign Policy 1963-68
Study room item USA - President Johnson and The Great Society
Study room item USA - What were the Causes and Results of the American Depression 1929-32?

  Vietnam

Study room item Vietnam - What caused the Vietnam War and why did the USA get involved?
Study room item Vietnam - Why and with what results did the Vietnam War escalate 1962-75?
Study room item Vietnam - Why were the Vietminh successful in the struggle for independence against France in the years from 1946 to 1954?
 
 

  British - Tudors

 

  General

Study room item Tudor - The Significance of the Pilgrimage of Grace

  Henry VIII

Study room item Tudor - Religion - The Henrician Legacy
 
 

  History of Medicine

 

  Medicine

Study room item Edward Jenner and Smallpox
Study room item Hippocrates
Study room item John Snow and Cholera
Study room item Louis Pasteur
Study room item Medicine in Ancient Greece - The Asclepieion
Study room item Robert Koch 1843-1910
Study room item Ronald Ross and Malaria
Study room item The Four Humours

  Medicine in Ancient Egypt

Study room item 1 Medicine in Ancient Egypt
Study room item 2 How Life in Egypt Influenced Medicine
Study room item 3 How do we know about Egypts Medical Practices
Study room item 4 What the Papyri tell us about Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Study room item 5 The Medical Practices of Ancient Egypt
Study room item 6 The Role of Magic and Religion
Study room item 7 Doctors in Ancient Egypt
Study room item 8 Anatomy, Physiology and the Causes of Disease
Study room item 9 The Medical Use of Herbs in Ancient Egypt
 
 

  Unclassified Content

 
Study room item Online resources to support the study of Henry II
 
 

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