GCSE AQA History B Revision Thread

Is this a good revision technique? I have written out revision notes, and then i will read the until i know how everything happens, before writing out a massive list of all the dates/facts/figures and memorise it?

I did this for section A and i did pretty well, so I'm hoping it happens again?

Also, what do i need to get a nA* if i got 90/90 in Section A, and 54/60 in the coursework? I hope its low because I'm not enjoying tho section!

Is this a good revision technique? I have written out revision notes, and then i will read the until i know how everything happens, before writing out a massive list of all the dates/facts/figures and memorise it?

I did this for section A and i did pretty well, so I'm hoping it happens again?

Also, what do i need to get a nA* if i got 90/90 in Section A, and 54/60 in the coursework? I hope its low because I'm not enjoying tho section!

Here are the 3 topics you wanted:

Hope they help your revision.

Thank you !!!!!
Hope you do well in your exams.

Can someone tell me how you can write a lot in 1 hour 45 mins? Is there any tips etc.?

My tip is that I am going to do all the 10 mark questions first as they have a similar structure and they equate for 50% of the whole paper


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But won't you be extremeley tired after doing all 3? The paper is designed in a way that it will not tire you as much. Are you doing origins of the first world war and peacekeeping etc?

i have a hardcopy of Unit 1 jan 2012
here are the questions (obviously i cant do the source questions so her are ques, 1 and 3)
Topic 1: The Origins of the First World War
1) In 1904 and 1907 Britain made agreements with France and Russia.
Describe the main features of the Entente Cordiale and Britain’s agreement with Russia.

3)Which of the following was more responsible for causing the First World War:
 the aims and activities of the Black Hand
 the aims and actions of Austria-Hungary?
You must refer to both causes when explaining your answer. (10 marks)

Topic 2: Peacemaking 1918–1919 and the League of Nations
At the end of the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles took land away from Germany
and gave it to other countries.
Describe these changes.

Which of these crises weakened the League of Nations more:
 the Manchurian Crisis, 1931–1933
 the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935–1936?
You must refer to both crises when explaining your answer.

Topic 3: Hitler’s foreign policy and the origins of the Second World War


When he came to power, Hitler planned to make Germany a great power again.
Describe Hitler’s main aims in foreign policy in the 1930s.

Which of the following was the greater danger to European peace:
 the Anschluss between Germany and Austria, March 1938
 the Sudeten Crisis, September 1938?
You must refer to both bullet points when explaining your answer

Topic 4: The Origins of the Cold War 1945–1955

In 1947 the USA promised to support all countries who were trying to remain free from
communism.
Describe how the Marshall Plan helped to achieve this aim.

Which was the greater threat to world peace between 1949 and 1955:
 the Korean War, 1950–1953
 the formation of NATO in 1949 and the Warsaw Pact in 1955?
You must refer to both threats when explaining your answer.

Topic 5: Crises of the Cold War 1955–1970
In May 1960 an American U2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR.
Describe the U2 Crisis which followed from this.

Which was the greater threat to world peace in the 1960s:
 the building of the Berlin Wall, 1961
 the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962?
You must refer to both threats when explaining your answer

Topic 6: Failure of Détente and the collapse of communism 1970–1991

President Reagan of the United States called the USSR ‘the Evil Empire’.
Describe how Reagan renewed the Cold War in the 1980s.

Which was the more important reason for the collapse of communism in the USSR and
Eastern Europe:
 the war in Afghanistan, 1979–1989
 the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev?
You must refer to both reasons when explaining your answer.

If Anyone want REAL PAPERS, WITH SOURCES and SOURCE Questions, just quote this message, and tell me what topics of papers you want, but most parts of the papers i have already put up in an earlier post of mine, but don't hesitate to ask for any parts of papers.

Could you please post the Origins of the Cold War, Crisis of the Cold War and Failure of Detente? If you already have just let me know and I'll look through the previous threads. Thanks

hey, well at the moment very unprepared, hoping that will change before Tuesday. What about you?
I was looking at the grade boundaries for previous years and they look extremely low for an A*! So that's good haha
What are you revising from, the AQA textbook?

I know! I have my OCR Biology exam on the same day too
Half of topic 1, I started yesterday. We were given a revision booklet that summarises everything so I am thinking of using that instead of the AQA text book because it is so long, but I don't want to miss bits out. Have you got unit 2 on Thursday?