GCSE Revision

History

Edexcel GCSE History: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, the Cold War, Crime and Punishment with Whitechapel, and Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Timeline: the key dates for every topic

Terminology: every key term, with pictures

Exam guide: the papers, marks, timings and levels

Topics

H1

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88

Paper 2, Booklet B: how William of Normandy won the English crown in 1066, crushed resistance and changed the way England was run.

H2

Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91

Paper 2, Booklet P: how the USA and the Soviet Union went from wartime allies to rivals, came close to nuclear war, and then ended the Cold War.

H3

Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present

Paper 1, Section B: how crimes, policing and punishments in Britain changed over a thousand years, and why.

H4

Whitechapel, c1870–c1900

Paper 1, Section A: crime, policing and poverty in one corner of Victorian London, and how to use sources to find out about them.

H5

Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Paper 3: how Germany's first democracy struggled, how Hitler took power, and what life was like under the Nazis.