IGCSE History

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• Introduction to IGCSE
• The Road to Affluence: USA 1917 - 1941 (A9)
  • 1917 - 1929
    • The impact of the First World War
    • Immigration
    • Henry Ford and mass production
    • Farming in the 1920s
    • The Stock Market Boom
  • 1929 - 1941
    • The Wall Street Crash
    • The Depression
    • The policies of Hoover
    • Roosevelt and the New Deal
    • Reactions to the New Deal
• International Relations 1919-1939 (A8)
  • Collective Security
    • The Versailles Settlement
    • The Foundation of the League of Nations
    • Strengths and weaknesses of the League of Nations
    • Successes and failures of the League of Nations
    • Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Appeasement
    • Manchuria
    • The Disarmament Conference
    • Abyssinia
    • Hitler and the League
    • Appeasement in action
• Revolution in China 1949 - 1996 (A14)
  • 1949 - 1976
    • China under Mao
    • Reform under Liu and Deng
    • The reasons for the Cultural Revolution
    • The impact of the Cultural Revolution
    • China 1971 - 1976
  • 1976 - 1996
    • The defeat of the Gang of Four
    • China under Deng Xiaoping
    • Reforms of the economy
    • The Democracy Movement
    • China in the 1990s
• South-East Asia 1945 - 1900 (A15)
  • Indo-China
    • The end of the French Empire
    • Vietnam 1954 - 1965
    • US involvement in Vietnam
    • The unification of Vietnam
    • Laos and Cambodia
  • South-East Asia
    • The struggle for control of Malaya
    • The creation of Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Suharto and Indonesia
    • Sukarno and Pancasila
• Conflict and Crisis is the Middle East 1946 - 1996 (A16)
  • Unit overview
  • 1946 - 1967
    • The creation of Israel
    • The impact of the war of 1948 - 1949
    • The Suez Crisis
    • Superpower involvement in the Middle East
    • The Six Day War
  • 1967 - 1996
    • International terrorism
    • The war of Yom Kippur
    • The Palestinian Liberation Organisation
    • Lebanon and the occupied territories
    • Successes and failures from Camp David to Oslo
• The First World War (B4)
  • The Schlieffen Plan
  • Deadlock on the Western Front
  • Gallipoli
  • The Somme and Passchendaele
  • The War at Sea
  • The defeat of Germany
• The USA 1917-1929 (B7)
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Advertising and consumerism
  • New forms of entertainment
  • Prohibition
  • Gangsterism
  • Hollywood
• China under Mao Zedong 1949 - 1959 (B10)
  • The creation of the Communist State
  • Land Reform
  • Communist society
  • The First Five Year Pan
  • The 100 Flowers
  • The Great Leap Forward
• The Changing Nature of Warfare (C3)
  • Unit overview
  • Warfare at the beginning of the 20th Century
  • Land warfare
  • Sea and aerial warfare
  • Atomic and nuclear weapons
  • Warfare at the end of the 20th Century
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Introduction to IGSE History

At Dhahran British Grammar School the IGCSE course is undertaken in Years 10 and 11.

There are two examinations at the end of Year 11.

Foundation Tier candidates (grades C-G) take paper one, which carries a weighting of 75% and lasts one and a half hours.

Highter Tier candidates (grades A*-G) take paper two, which carries a weighting of 75% and lasts two and a half hours.

Both Foundation and Higher Tier candidates take paper 3, a factual recall paper which has a weighting of 25% and lasts one hour.

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Students for examination in 2007 & 2008 will study the following units.

• A16: Conflict and Crisis in the Middle East, 1946 - 1996 (Year 10)
• A9: The Road to Affluence: the USA, 1917 - 1941 (Year 10)
• A8: International Relations, 1919 - 1939: Collective Security and Appeasement (Year 10)
• A15: South-East Asia, 1945 - 1990s: End of French Empire, Vietnam, Indo-China, Malaysia, Indonesia (Year 11)
• B4: The First World War, 1914 - 1918 (Year 10)
• B7: The USA, 1917 - 1929 (Year 10)
• C3: The Changing Nature of Warfare in the Twentieth Century (Year 10 & Year 11)

Other options are possible, including:

A14: Revolution in China, 1949 - 1996 (Year 10)

B10: China under Mao Zedong, 1949 - 1959 (Year 10)

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