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Flashcards for SQA Advanced Higher History (course specification version 3.0, May 2024), with one subdeck for each of the ten fields of study and, inside it, one for each key issue the specification sets out. Delete or suspend the fields you do not study once the deck is yours. The project-dissertation has no cards, since candidates choose their own topic.

Adding it gives you your own copy, with every subdeck below. Each card then comes back just before you would forget it, and every one you get right or wrong counts towards your mastery of its topic. You can delete or suspend the parts you are not studying once it is yours.

What is inside (111 subdecks)

  • Britain: at war and peace, 1938–51227 cards
    • Conservative recovery and Labour's defeat17 cards
    • Imperial, foreign and military policies, 1945–5122 cards
    • Labour's New Jerusalem38 cards
    • Military, naval and air strategies22 cards
    • Political leadership and parties on the eve of war15 cards
    • Political leadership and the wartime government21 cards
    • The state of the nation: society, economy, defence and preparedness for war20 cards
    • The war and British society32 cards
    • The war and the British economy23 cards
    • War aims, diplomacy and alliances, 1939–4517 cards
  • Germany: from democracy to dictatorship, 1918–39247 cards
    • Attempts to create a Volksgemeinschaft, 1933–3926 cards
    • Economic and foreign policies, 1933–3929 cards
    • Political and economic crises, 1919–2323 cards
    • Resistance to the regime, 1933–3921 cards
    • The collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1929–3324 cards
    • The German Revolution and the creation of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1932 cards
    • The National Socialist consolidation of power, 1933–3427 cards
    • The nature of the National Socialist regime, 1933–3919 cards
    • The Stresemann era: domestic and foreign policy, 1924–2924 cards
    • The Treaty of Versailles: its political and economic significance22 cards
  • Japan: the modernisation of a nation, 1840–1920197 cards
    • Economy and government in the mid-19th century19 cards
    • Foreign influences and their internal impact24 cards
    • Industrial, military and naval reforms19 cards
    • Political reform and the changing position of the emperor25 cards
    • Social reforms16 cards
    • Social, economic and political factors causing change16 cards
    • Society and culture in the mid-19th century19 cards
    • The Taisho years18 cards
    • War with China, 1873–9719 cards
    • War with Russia, 1904–0522 cards
  • Northern Britain from the Iron Age to 1034228 cards
    • Changing beliefs37 cards
    • Formation of the Kingdom of Alba13 cards
    • Iron Age and Celtic society24 cards
    • Kingdom of Alba, to 103418 cards
    • Kingdom of the Scots18 cards
    • Kingdoms of the Britons and the Angles21 cards
    • Pictish society21 cards
    • Roman military invasions42 cards
    • Roman occupation and its impact17 cards
    • Viking invasions and impact17 cards
  • Russia: from Tsarism to Stalinism, 1914–45228 cards
    • Industrialisation and collectivisation29 cards
    • Stalin's struggle for power22 cards
    • The Civil War22 cards
    • The February Revolution19 cards
    • The Great Patriotic War24 cards
    • The international context, 1917–2417 cards
    • The political and social development of the Stalinist state26 cards
    • The Provisional Government and the October Revolution30 cards
    • The Soviet state: from War Communism to the New Economic Policy, 1918–2422 cards
    • War and the breakdown of Russian society, 1914 to January 191717 cards
  • Scotland: from the Treaty of Union to the Enlightenment, 1707–1815202 cards
    • Agricultural improvement in the lowlands17 cards
    • Education12 cards
    • Industrialisation and urbanisation18 cards
    • The Enlightenment32 cards
    • The governance of Scotland15 cards
    • The Highlands25 cards
    • The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745–4620 cards
    • The Jacobite rebellions, 1715–1919 cards
    • The Kirk14 cards
    • The Treaty of Union, Glasgow and the tobacco trade30 cards
  • Scotland: independence and kingship, 1249–1334196 cards
    • Edward I's occupation of Scotland, 1296–9717 cards
    • King Robert and the governance of Scotland, 1309–2015 cards
    • King Robert and the war against England, 1310–2321 cards
    • Scottish resistance and English invasions, 1298–130518 cards
    • Succession and peace, 1324–3421 cards
    • The contribution of William Wallace, 1297–130521 cards
    • The Guardianship and the Great Cause, 1286–9220 cards
    • The kingdom under Alexander III, 1249–8621 cards
    • The reign of King John, 1292–9615 cards
    • Usurpation and civil war, 1306–0919 cards
    • Writers and historians8 cards
  • South Africa: race and power, 1902–84201 cards
    • Apartheid, 1960–8421 cards
    • Early apartheid, 1948–6021 cards
    • Early segregation, 1910–2420 cards
    • Formation of South Africa, 1902–1027 cards
    • Growth of Afrikaner influence, 1924–3917 cards
    • Opposition, 1910–4818 cards
    • Resistance, 1960–8419 cards
    • South Africa and the international community, 1960–8419 cards
    • South Africa and World War II16 cards
    • The growth of African nationalism, 1948–6023 cards
  • The Spanish Civil War: causes, conflict and consequences, 1923–45191 cards
    • Azaña's reforms, 1931–3319 cards
    • Civil War: the international dimension19 cards
    • Civil War: the Spanish dimension21 cards
    • Defeat of the Republic and the consequences of the Civil War14 cards
    • The Bienio Negro, a period of reaction21 cards
    • The condition of Spain in the 1920s31 cards
    • The fall of the monarchy12 cards
    • The military rising of 193622 cards
    • The nature of the new Republic17 cards
    • The rise of Franco15 cards
  • USA: 'a house divided', 1850–65243 cards
    • American society in 185018 cards
    • Enslavement in the antebellum period21 cards
    • Leadership during the Civil War21 cards
    • Reasons for Northern victory and Southern defeat10 cards
    • The 1860 election, secession and the outbreak of war27 cards
    • The election of 186417 cards
    • The Emancipation Proclamation and its consequences21 cards
    • The military conflict41 cards
    • The problem of territorial expansion40 cards
    • The war at home and abroad27 cards

Some of its cards

  • What did Edward I do to Berwick on 30 March 1296?
    Sacked it and massacred many of its people
  • What did the First Confiscation Act of 1861 do?
    Allowed the Union to seize enslaved people used by the Confederate army
  • How did Bruce take castles from the English between 1307 and 1314?
    By surprise attacks, raids and stealth, then destroying them so the English could not use them
  • Where did Prince Charles Edward Stuart land in Scotland in July 1745?
    Eriskay
  • When was the Spanish Second Republic proclaimed?
    14 April 1931
  • What was the basic structure of Highland society before 1745?
    Clans led by chiefs, with tacksmen holding land from them and tenants below
  • Who is said to have brought Christianity to the Britons of south-west Scotland at Whithorn?
    Ninian
  • What was Japan's policy of isolation called?
    Sakoku, meaning closed country
  • How did the Nazis reduce unemployment after 1933?
    By public works, the Reich Labour Service, rearmament and conscription
  • When did the Reichstag Fire take place?
    27 February 1933

And 2150 more once you add the deck.