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Flashcards for AQA GCSE History (8145), split into Paper 1 and Paper 2, then into the four sections, with every option in its own subdeck and each option split into the parts the specification sets out. The British depth studies end with the historic environment in general terms, since AQA changes the site each year. Delete or suspend the options your school does not take once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (77 subdecks)

  • Paper 1 Understanding the modern world1721 cards
    • Section A Period studies813 cards
      • AA America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation207 cards
        • Part 1 Expansion: opportunities and challenges57 cards
        • Part 2 Conflict across America73 cards
        • Part 3 Consolidation: forging the nation77 cards
      • AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship233 cards
        • Part 1 Germany and the growth of democracy95 cards
        • Part 2 Germany and the Depression47 cards
        • Part 3 The experiences of Germans under the Nazis91 cards
      • AC Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism192 cards
        • Part 1 The end of Tsardom59 cards
        • Part 2 Lenin's new society64 cards
        • Part 3 Stalin's USSR69 cards
      • AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality181 cards
        • Part 1 American people and the 'Boom'61 cards
        • Part 2 Bust: Americans' experiences of the Depression and New Deal50 cards
        • Part 3 Post-war America70 cards
    • Section B Wider world depth studies908 cards
      • BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894–1918198 cards
        • Part 1 The causes of the First World War72 cards
        • Part 2 The First World War: stalemate79 cards
        • Part 3 Ending the war47 cards
      • BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918–1939190 cards
        • Part 1 Peacemaking59 cards
        • Part 2 The League of Nations and international peace67 cards
        • Part 3 The origins and outbreak of the Second World War64 cards
      • BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972189 cards
        • Part 1 The origins of the Cold War61 cards
        • Part 2 The development of the Cold War61 cards
        • Part 3 Transformation of the Cold War67 cards
      • BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975157 cards
        • Part 1 Conflict in Korea52 cards
        • Part 2 Escalation of conflict in Vietnam58 cards
        • Part 3 The ending of conflict in Vietnam47 cards
      • BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009174 cards
        • Part 1 Tensions in the Gulf55 cards
        • Part 2 The war on Al-Qaeda56 cards
        • Part 3 The Iraq War63 cards
  • Paper 2 Shaping the nation1552 cards
    • Section A Thematic studies821 cards
      • AA Britain: Health and the people, c1000 to the present day271 cards
        • Part 1 Medicine stands still53 cards
        • Part 2 The beginnings of change66 cards
        • Part 3 A revolution in medicine68 cards
        • Part 4 Modern medicine84 cards
      • AB Britain: Power and the people, c1170 to the present day285 cards
        • Part 1 Challenging authority and feudalism57 cards
        • Part 2 Challenging royal authority59 cards
        • Part 3 Reform and reformers87 cards
        • Part 4 Equality and rights82 cards
      • AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people, c790 to the present day265 cards
        • Part 1 Conquered and conquerors54 cards
        • Part 2 Looking west59 cards
        • Part 3 Expansion and empire84 cards
        • Part 4 Britain in the 20th century68 cards
    • Section B British depth studies731 cards
      • BA Norman England, c1066–c1100185 cards
        • Part 1 The Normans: conquest and control65 cards
        • Part 2 Life under the Normans57 cards
        • Part 3 The Norman Church and monasticism46 cards
        • Part 4 The historic environment17 cards
      • BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307175 cards
        • Part 1 Government, the rights of King and people43 cards
        • Part 2 Life in Medieval England56 cards
        • Part 3 Edward I's military campaigns in Wales and Scotland59 cards
        • Part 4 The historic environment17 cards
      • BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603179 cards
        • Part 1 Elizabeth's court and Parliament41 cards
        • Part 2 Life in Elizabethan times53 cards
        • Part 3 Troubles at home and abroad69 cards
        • Part 4 The historic environment16 cards
      • BD Restoration England, 1660–1685192 cards
        • Part 1 Crown, Parliament, plots and court life64 cards
        • Part 2 Life in Restoration England64 cards
        • Part 3 Land, trade and war49 cards
        • Part 4 The historic environment15 cards

Some of its cards

  • What name did early 19th-century Americans give to the Great Plains?
    The Great American Desert
  • Medieval doctors believed illness came from an imbalance of the [...].
    Medieval doctors believed illness came from an imbalance of the four humours.
  • Why did Americans in the 1840s think the Great Plains could not be farmed?
    The land was dry, treeless and grassy, with little rain and extreme weather
  • The four humours were blood, phlegm, yellow bile and [...].
    The four humours were blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
  • Before about 1850, how did most Americans heading west treat the Great Plains?
    As land to cross on the way to Oregon and California, not a place to settle
  • Who was the ancient Greek doctor whose writings stressed observing a patient's symptoms carefully?
    Hippocrates
  • [...] was the belief that God meant white Americans to spread across the whole North American continent.
    Manifest Destiny was the belief that God meant white Americans to spread across the whole North American continent.
  • Who was the Greek doctor, working in Rome in the 2nd century AD, whose ideas dominated medieval medicine?
    Galen
  • Who first used the phrase 'Manifest Destiny', and when?
    The journalist John O'Sullivan, in 1845
  • Galen's [...] said an illness should be treated with its opposite, such as pepper for a cold.
    Galen's Theory of Opposites said an illness should be treated with its opposite, such as pepper for a cold.

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