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AQA GCSE History 8145 - Paper 1 & 2 - 3rd & 06th June 2019

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AQA GCSE History 8145 - Paper 1 & 2 - 3rd & 06th June


Exam technique, night before breakdowns and discussion regarding this exam... It's all here :gthumb: Feel free to add resources to the thread as well as anything that may be helpful to others :smartass:

This thread covers the following papers:
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[li]8145 Paper 1 All options 2h 03 June 2019 am [/li]
[li]8145 Paper 2 All options 2h 06 June 2019 pm[/li]
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The official specification: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/history/specifications/AQA-8145-SP-2016.PDF

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Specimen and past papers:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/history/gcse/history-8145/assessment-resources
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Anybody know where I can get good notes?
left revision too late
Any tips?
Does anybody else do the First World War?
We do:
Paper 1
Germany (1890-1945) Democracy to Dictatorship
Conflict and tension between East and West 1945-1972
Paper 2
Elizabethen England (C1568-1603)
Britain Health and the people (C1000-present day)

Anyone else doing the same?
Reply 4
Literally met no one who does the same as me yet:
Paper 1: Conflict and Tension 1918-1939
America 1920-1973
Paper 2: Norman England
Power and the People
What do you think the pevensey castle question will be on? x
Original post by kannmnn
Literally met no one who does the same as me yet:
Paper 1: Conflict and Tension 1918-1939
America 1920-1973
Paper 2: Norman England
Power and the People
Original post by 4 NEED HELP GSCE
We do:
Paper 1
Germany (1890-1945) Democracy to Dictatorship
Conflict and tension between East and West 1945-1972
Paper 2
Elizabethen England (C1568-1603)
Britain Health and the people (C1000-present day)

Anyone else doing the same?


yeah I am doing exactly the same
Any sort of tips on how to structure an answer, i dont really find any of my teachers' advice very good and when ive followed it i only got mediocre marks at best. I know they say i dont add enough historical context ect. but i dont know where i should include this in my answer (its the 16 marker i lose most marks on).
Also, i do:
Paper 1:
America (im not 100% on the years, i think its most/all of the 19th century) Fort Laramie treaties, Civil war, Battle of little big horn ect.
Conflict and tension 1918-39 Treaty of versailles, Kellogg-briand pact, Anti-soviet pact up to Czechoslovakia invasion
Paper 2:
Medicine (we studied this last and not in a lot of detail, honestly im not even sure of the topic name)
Elizabethan England

Feel free to contact me if you want to share notes! I'm also a pretty big history nerd when it comes to the 20th century so id be happy to help anyone with other topics! :biggrin:
If anyone wants watch his videos idk but i like the way its explained
but he only does Germany and Norman England (i can only use him for Germany)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQDjwt4NnBI-CGOixuJ0Dkg/videos
Can anyone help me with cold war (1945-72)
I really don't understand it and i've never done any exam papers. I find it soo hard (the content and how to answer the quiestions)
Litreally last year the teacher didn't even care!
Thanks
So ill do a basic coverage of literally the entire subject really quickly. Please bear in mind i do not study this but have a very good understanding of the time period irregardless. So after the 2nd world war ended fascism (Hitler and Mussolini) has been defeated leaving 2 other main ideologies in the world. Socialism and Capitalism, I attached links :biggrin:. Basically, Americans were worried that socialism would become too strong and take over the world whilst the Soviets worried capitalism would become too strong and take over the world. This lead to huge tensions between the two, so much so that the borders between the allies of the Soviets and Americans were blockaded off, creating what was called 'the iron curtain' between the two alliances (called NATO for america and the Comniform for the soviets). After world war two germany was split into two countries, the east followed socialism and the west followed capitalism, but Berlin (which was in the eastern side) was half owned by the western government. The soviets refused to let any supplies into the western half of Berlin due to tensions but NATO used bomber planes to drop supplies into the city (which was called the Berlin Airlift). While this happened China had a civil war between a socialist government (lead by mao tse-tung/ mao zedong) and a capitalist government, the socialists eventually won. After ww2 korea (which was Japanese) was divided equally between the US (who got the south) and Soviets (who got the north) but after time the two went to war, causing the korean war ending with no clear winner (which created north and south korea today). A similar thing to China happened in Vietnam, with the americans using chemical weapons (like napalm) but losing embarrassingly to the much inferior Vietcong (the socialists). To simplify the space race and arms race, basically both were babies and had to have what the other had if it was slightly better so competed to make the biggest achievement (sputnik, Soviets, was the first satellite into space, where as Apollo (america) was the first to the moon. Then theres cuba, so Fidel Castro led a socialist revolution in Cuba (which is right next to america) which worried america as they didnt want to be invaded. America had built nuclear missle bases in Turkey (near Russia) which worried the Soviets a lot so they wanted to build a nuclear missle base in Cuba to even things up. The americans got very worried at this and the conflict near created a nuclear war between the two powers. If not for the careful coordination of JFK (the american president) the americans would have started a war that could have killed millions. Sorry i know this is a long message and is missing A LOT of details and events but i hope this helps you atleast a little. if you take away anything please look at the links, they are very usful. If you need anything more please contact me :biggrin:
Original post by 4 NEED HELP GSCE
Can anyone help me with cold war (1945-72)
I really don't understand it and i've never done any exam papers. I find it soo hard (the content and how to answer the quiestions)
Litreally last year the teacher didn't even care!
Thanks
Omgg!!
Thank youu soo muchh! It actually helps. Thanks
Original post by SuspiciousDuck
So ill do a basic coverage of literally the entire subject really quickly. Please bear in mind i do not study this but have a very good understanding of the time period irregardless. So after the 2nd world war ended fascism (Hitler and Mussolini) has been defeated leaving 2 other main ideologies in the world. Socialism and Capitalism, I attached links :biggrin:. Basically, Americans were worried that socialism would become too strong and take over the world whilst the Soviets worried capitalism would become too strong and take over the world. This lead to huge tensions between the two, so much so that the borders between the allies of the Soviets and Americans were blockaded off, creating what was called 'the iron curtain' between the two alliances (called NATO for america and the Comniform for the soviets). After world war two germany was split into two countries, the east followed socialism and the west followed capitalism, but Berlin (which was in the eastern side) was half owned by the western government. The soviets refused to let any supplies into the western half of Berlin due to tensions but NATO used bomber planes to drop supplies into the city (which was called the Berlin Airlift). While this happened China had a civil war between a socialist government (lead by mao tse-tung/ mao zedong) and a capitalist government, the socialists eventually won. After ww2 korea (which was Japanese) was divided equally between the US (who got the south) and Soviets (who got the north) but after time the two went to war, causing the korean war ending with no clear winner (which created north and south korea today). A similar thing to China happened in Vietnam, with the americans using chemical weapons (like napalm) but losing embarrassingly to the much inferior Vietcong (the socialists). To simplify the space race and arms race, basically both were babies and had to have what the other had if it was slightly better so competed to make the biggest achievement (sputnik, Soviets, was the first satellite into space, where as Apollo (america) was the first to the moon. Then theres cuba, so Fidel Castro led a socialist revolution in Cuba (which is right next to america) which worried america as they didnt want to be invaded. America had built nuclear missle bases in Turkey (near Russia) which worried the Soviets a lot so they wanted to build a nuclear missle base in Cuba to even things up. The americans got very worried at this and the conflict near created a nuclear war between the two powers. If not for the careful coordination of JFK (the american president) the americans would have started a war that could have killed millions. Sorry i know this is a long message and is missing A LOT of details and events but i hope this helps you atleast a little. if you take away anything please look at the links, they are very usful. If you need anything more please contact me :biggrin:
no problem atall :biggrin:
Original post by 4 NEED HELP GSCE
Omgg!!
Thank youu soo muchh! It actually helps. Thanks
Hey guess what Cuba came up as the 16 mark queisstion and i was thinking about you and the liknk you sent. Helped loads
Thanks.
Overall the paper was okay. How did everyone elses go?
Original post by SuspiciousDuck
no problem atall :biggrin:
paper was pretty good imo
i did a) russia b)inter-war years
It was really good but I didn’t really like the question on American pop culture after the Second World War and how it affected people
I thought the questions were quite good - I did Germany and conflict and tension 1918-1939. Anyone else do these?
does anyone do conflict and tension in asia??
we did Germany and conflict and tension 1890-1945
Germany was good Cold war was okay considering it was my first ever exam paper done
I actually understood it
Just hope it goes well for us all regardless of what paper we did.
Here are my Power and the People notes if anyone wants to review the events.

-See attached file-

M- Method
O-Outcome
C- Causes
K- Key individuals
S- Significance

Notes for the 20+4 marker is also on the file.

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