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SQA National 5 History

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Flashcards for SQA National 5 History, split into the three areas of study (Scottish, British, European and world), then one subdeck per context option and by key issue in the course specification's order. Delete or suspend any context your class does not study once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (103 subdecks)

  • British708 cards
    • Changing Britain, 1760–1914155 cards
      • Health and housing40 cards
      • Industry, textile factories and coal mines40 cards
      • Pressure for democratic reform up to 188449 cards
      • Transport, canals and railways26 cards
    • The Creation of the Medieval Kingdoms, 1066–1406151 cards
      • Royal power in the reign of Henry II35 cards
      • The decline of feudal society39 cards
      • The Normans and feudal society49 cards
      • The role of the Church in the Medieval Kingdom28 cards
    • The Making of Modern Britain, 1880–1951134 cards
      • Divided society: poverty, housing and politics29 cards
      • Labour reforms: the Welfare State 1945–5136 cards
      • Liberal reforms, 1906–1438 cards
      • Social impact of World War II in Britain31 cards
    • The trade in enslaved African people, 1770–1807118 cards
      • Britain and the Caribbean24 cards
      • The abolitionist campaigns43 cards
      • The captives' experience and enslaved Africans' attempts to gain their freedom23 cards
      • The triangular trade28 cards
    • War of the Three Kingdoms, 1603–1651150 cards
      • Challenges to royal authority26 cards
      • Political issues, 1603–162527 cards
      • The rule of Charles I in England and Scotland, 1625–164037 cards
      • War and the role of Cromwell, to 165160 cards
  • European and world1277 cards
    • 'Tea and Freedom', the American Revolution, 1774–83120 cards
      • American victory32 cards
      • Colonists' moves towards independence, 1774–177621 cards
      • Growing tension between Britain and the American colonies, to 177439 cards
      • The spread of the war28 cards
    • Appeasement and the Road to War, 1918–1939126 cards
      • British and French appeasement, to 193821 cards
      • Final steps to war27 cards
      • Nazi foreign policy, 1933–3838 cards
      • Paris Peace Treaties and the League of Nations, to 193340 cards
    • Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918–1968140 cards
      • 'Separate but equal', to 194540 cards
      • Civil rights campaigns, to 196846 cards
      • The 'Open Door' policy and immigration, to 192828 cards
      • The ghettos and Black American radicalism26 cards
    • Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–39140 cards
      • Nazi control of Germany25 cards
      • Nazi rise to power35 cards
      • Nazi social and economic policies30 cards
      • Weimar Germany, 1919–193350 cards
    • Mussolini and Fascist Italy, 1919–1939112 cards
      • Foreign policy21 cards
      • Mussolini's seizure of power, to 192533 cards
      • Mussolini's social and economic policies35 cards
      • Opposition to Mussolini23 cards
    • Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894–1921119 cards
      • 1905 Revolution, causes and events28 cards
      • February Revolution, causes, events and effects28 cards
      • Imperial Russia, government and people25 cards
      • October Revolution, causes, events and effects38 cards
    • The Cold War, 1945–89138 cards
      • Changing relations between the superpowers, 1968–8925 cards
      • Flashpoints, Hungary, Berlin and Cuba46 cards
      • Reasons for the emergence of the Cold War, up to 195537 cards
      • The Vietnam War30 cards
    • The Cross and the Crescent, the Crusades 1071–1192121 cards
      • Knights, castles and warfare29 cards
      • The Fall of Jerusalem, 118729 cards
      • The First Crusade39 cards
      • The Third Crusade, to 119224 cards
    • USA 1850–80128 cards
      • Defeat and demise of the Indigenous Americans of the Plains27 cards
      • Enslavement and the Civil War40 cards
      • Reasons for westward expansion38 cards
      • Reconstruction, African-Americans and Southern reaction to defeat, 1865–7823 cards
    • World War II, 1939–45133 cards
      • Allied victories in Europe and Japan, 1944–4534 cards
      • German territorial expansion, 1939–4345 cards
      • Life in occupied Europe29 cards
      • War with Japan, 1941–4525 cards
  • Scottish575 cards
    • Mary Queen of Scots, and the Reformation, 1542–1587126 cards
      • Mary in England, 1567–158721 cards
      • Mary, from the Rough Wooing to becoming Queen of France, to 155930 cards
      • Mary's reign, 1561–156734 cards
      • The Reformation in Scotland, to 158741 cards
    • Migration and Empire, 1830–1939111 cards
      • Experience of immigrants to Scotland, 1830s–193925 cards
      • Experience of Scots abroad, 1830s–193929 cards
      • Immigration to Scotland, 1830s–193928 cards
      • Scottish emigration, 1830s–193929 cards
    • The Era of the Great War, 1900–1928106 cards
      • Domestic impact of war: industry and economy30 cards
      • Domestic impact of war: politics22 cards
      • Domestic impact of war: society and culture22 cards
      • Scots on the Western Front32 cards
    • The Treaty of Union, 1689–1715107 cards
      • Arguments for and against Union24 cards
      • The impact of the Union, to 171533 cards
      • The passing of the Treaty of Union by the Scots Parliament20 cards
      • Worsening relations with England, 1689–170730 cards
    • The Wars of Independence, 1286–1328125 cards
      • Balliol and Edward I, 1292–129628 cards
      • Robert Bruce, 1306–132840 cards
      • The succession problem, 1286–129231 cards
      • William Wallace, 1296–130526 cards

Some of its cards

  • In what year did Mary Queen of Scots become queen of Scotland?
    1542
  • What was a long-term problem for the crusader states after 1099?
    Too few settlers and soldiers to defend them
  • What was the Open Door policy on immigration to the USA?
    Almost anyone from Europe could enter the country, with few limits
  • How did the American colonies become closer during the War of Independence?
    Through the Continental Congresses, shared armies and committees
  • What were Hitler's main aims in foreign policy?
    To destroy the Treaty of Versailles, unite German speakers and win living space in the east
  • What was the main reason poor Scots left for other lands?
    Poverty and lack of jobs
  • What was the main crop that made Southern slavery profitable?
    Cotton
  • Who became Tsar of Russia in 1894?
    Nicholas II
  • In what year did Charles I become king?
    1625
  • Which religious group was among the first to campaign against the trade in enslaved people?
    The Quakers

And 2550 more once you add the deck.