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AQA · GCSE · 8145
History
Active Recall Guide
1,889 questions
HistoryContents
Contents
16 topics, 154 subtopics
  1. America, 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation105
  2. America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality100
  3. Conflict and Tension Between East and West, 1945-1972139
  4. Conflict and Tension in Asia, 1950-197599
  5. Conflict and Tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-200988
  6. Conflict and Tension: the First World War, 1894-191893
  7. Conflict and Tension: the Inter-War Years, 1918-1939123
  8. Elizabethan England, c1568-1603118
  9. Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship98
  10. Health and the People in Britain, c1000 to the Present Day165
  11. Medieval England: the Reign of Edward I, 1272-1307103
  12. Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day158
  13. and 4 more
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America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and InequalityQuestions
America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality
The ‘Boom’
  1. What is meant by hire purchase?
  2. Which car did Henry Ford build in enormous numbers in the 1920s?
  3. How did the moving assembly line cut the cost of building a car?
  4. Why was advertising so important to the consumer society of the 1920s?
  5. Name three new household goods that spread through American homes during the 1920s.
  6. What was a tariff meant to do for American industry?
  7. What did the Republican policy of laissez-faire mean in practice?
  8. Which Americans gained little or nothing from the prosperity of the 1920s?
  9. What did it mean to buy shares on the margin?
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America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and InequalityAnswers
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The ‘Boom’
  1. Buying goods with a small deposit and then paying the rest in weekly or monthly instalments, which let ordinary families take an expensive item home at once.
  2. The Model T, which grew cheaper year after year until around half the cars in the world were Fords.
  3. Each worker repeated a single simple task as the vehicle moved past, so a car took far fewer hours of labour to finish.
  4. Newspapers, magazines, billboards and radio persuaded Americans to want goods they had never owned, creating the demand that kept the factories profitable.
  5. Vacuum cleaners, refrigerators and radios.
  6. Taxing foreign goods made them dearer than home-produced ones, so Americans bought American and domestic firms kept the market to themselves.
  7. The government interfered with business as little as possible, leaving companies free of regulation to grow and take profits as they chose.
  8. Farmers hit by falling crop prices, black Americans, and workers in older industries such as coal and textiles.
  9. Paying only a fraction of the price in cash and borrowing the rest, in the belief that the shares could be sold at a profit before the loan fell due.
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Conflict and Tension: the Inter-War Years, 1918-1939Questions
Conflict and Tension: the Inter-War Years, 1918-1939
The Versailles Settlement
  1. When and where was the peace treaty with Germany signed?
  2. Why did Germans call the treaty a Diktat?
  3. Which province did Germany have to return to France?
  4. What did the treaty do with the Saar?
  5. What was the Polish Corridor?
  6. What happened to Germany's overseas colonies?
  7. What union did the treaty forbid?
  8. What limits were placed on the German army?
  9. What limits were placed on the German navy and air force?
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Conflict and Tension: the Inter-War Years, 1918-1939Answers
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The Versailles Settlement
  1. On 28 June 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
  2. Because it was dictated to them: they were given no chance to negotiate and were told to sign or face invasion.
  3. Alsace-Lorraine, which Germany had taken in 1871.
  4. It placed the coalfield under League of Nations administration for fifteen years, with the coal going to France, after which a vote would decide its future.
  5. A strip of former German land given to Poland so that it had access to the sea, which cut East Prussia off from the rest of Germany.
  6. They were taken away and administered by the victorious powers as mandates on behalf of the League of Nations.
  7. Any union between Germany and Austria, so German speakers there could not join the Reich.
  8. It was capped at 100,000 men, conscription was banned and tanks were forbidden.
  9. The navy was limited to six battleships and no submarines, and Germany was allowed no air force at all.
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Norman England, c1066-c1100Questions
Norman England, c1066-c1100
Causes of Norman Conquest
  1. On what date did Edward the Confessor die, and why did his death cause a crisis?
  2. What was the Witan, and what part did it play in the succession of 1066?
  3. On what grounds did Harold Godwinson claim the throne?
  4. On what grounds did Duke William of Normandy claim the throne?
  5. What is supposed to have happened when Harold Godwinson visited Normandy in 1064?
  6. On what grounds did Harald Hardrada claim the throne?
  7. Who was Edgar Aethling, and why was he passed over?
  8. Why had the Godwin family become so powerful by 1066?
  9. How did the Northumbrian rising of 1065 weaken England before the invasions?
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Norman England, c1066-c1100Answers
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Causes of Norman Conquest
  1. He died on 5 January 1066 leaving no child to succeed him, so several rival men claimed the English throne.
  2. It was the council of leading nobles and churchmen who advised the king, and it chose Harold Godwinson as the next ruler the day after Edward died.
  3. He said the dying king had named him successor, the Witan had elected him, and he was already the richest and most powerful earl in the kingdom.
  4. He said Edward had promised him the succession in 1051, that Harold Godwinson had later sworn a sacred oath to support him, and that he was Edward's kinsman through Emma of Normandy.
  5. He swore an oath on holy relics to help William become king of England, which the Normans afterwards used to call him a perjurer.
  6. He argued that an earlier agreement between the Danish and Norwegian royal houses had promised England to the kings of Norway.
  7. He was Edward the Confessor's great-nephew and the last male of the old royal house of Wessex, but he was only a boy of about fourteen with no army or supporters.
  8. Harold Godwinson and his brothers held most of the great earldoms, and their sister Edith was married to the king.
  9. Harold Godwinson agreed to his brother Tostig's exile rather than fight the rebels, which made Tostig a bitter enemy who joined the Norwegian invasion.
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