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OCR · GCSE · J410
History A
Active Recall Guide
1,449 questions
History AContents
Contents
14 topics, 119 subtopics
  1. Castles: Form and Function C.1000-175070
  2. China 1950-1981: the People and the State82
  3. Germany 1925-1955: the People and the State102
  4. International Relations: the Changing International Order 1918-1975105
  5. Migration to Britain C.1000 to C.2010156
  6. Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-166080
  7. Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain C.1000 to 2014123
  8. South Africa 1960-1994: the People and the State93
  9. The English Reformation C.1520-c.155082
  10. The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-C.173080
  11. The USA 1919-1948: the People and the State113
  12. The USA 1945-1974: the People and the State103
  13. and 2 more
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China 1950-1981: the People and the StateQuestions
China 1950-1981: the People and the State
Early purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950s
  1. What did the Three-anti campaign launched in 1951 set out to root out?
  2. Which five ‘evils’ did the Five-anti campaign of 1952 accuse urban businessmen of?
  3. What happened to a person put in front of a struggle meeting?
  4. Which groups were hunted down in the Campaign to Suppress Counter-revolutionaries of 1950–51?
  5. What slogan gave the Hundred Flowers campaign of 1956 its name?
  6. What did Mao Zedong say he wanted intellectuals to offer when he invited them to speak out?
  7. How did Mao Zedong react when the criticism of 1957 began attacking Communist rule itself?
  8. What did the Marriage Law of 1950 forbid?
  9. Which Confucian duty did Communist social policy attack most directly?
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China 1950-1981: the People and the StateAnswers
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Early purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950s
  1. Corruption, waste and bureaucracy among Communist Party officials, factory managers and state employees.
  2. Bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts and stealing state economic information.
  3. A crowd denounced them in public until they confessed, after which they were commonly beaten, imprisoned, sent to a labour camp or shot.
  4. Former Guomindang officials and soldiers, bandits, secret society members and landlords, above all in the newly conquered south and west.
  5. ‘Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend’.
  6. Constructive criticism that would correct the mistakes of officials and make the Party govern better.
  7. He closed the campaign down and launched the Anti-Rightist Movement, in which hundreds of thousands of critics were sacked, sent to labour camps or exiled to the countryside.
  8. Arranged marriages, child betrothal, concubinage and the payment of a bride price.
  9. Filial piety, the obligation to obey the head of the family and to honour elders and ancestors.
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Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660Questions
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660
Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649
  1. To whom did Charles I surrender in May 1646, and where?
  2. What church settlement was pressed on Charles I in the Propositions of Newcastle?
  3. What did the Propositions of Newcastle demand over the armed forces and the King's supporters?
  4. Why did Charles I neither accept nor flatly refuse the terms put to him at Newcastle?
  5. How did Charles I pass into Parliament's hands in January 1647?
  6. What did the Levellers ask for in the Agreement of the People in 1647?
  7. Who were the leading Levellers?
  8. How was the Leveller movement broken in May 1649?
  9. What did Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers do in the spring of 1649, and how did it end?
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Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660Answers
Answers
Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649
  1. To the Scottish army at Southwell near Newark, hoping that giving himself to the Scots rather than to Parliament would divide his enemies.
  2. That he swear the Covenant himself, abolish bishops and accept a Presbyterian Church of England; Charles offered Presbyterianism only for a three-year trial.
  3. Twenty years of parliamentary control of the militia, and punishment rather than pardon for a long list of leading royalists.
  4. He was certain no settlement could be made without him, so he spun out the talks and played his enemies off against each other.
  5. The Scots gave him up in return for £400,000 owed to their army, and he was taken south to Holdenby House.
  6. A vote for most adult men, parliaments chosen every two years, equality before the law and freedom of worship.
  7. John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, with Colonel Thomas Rainsborough speaking for their ideas among the soldiers.
  8. Cromwell and Fairfax surprised the mutinous regiments at Burford by night and had three ringleaders shot against the churchyard wall.
  9. They dug and sowed the common land on St George's Hill in Surrey, claiming the earth was a common treasury; landowners took them to court and wrecked the colony by 1650.
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The USA 1919-1948: the People and the StateQuestions
The USA 1919-1948: the People and the State
The US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’
  1. Which three Republican presidents held office in the United States between 1921 and 1933?
  2. What did the Republican belief in laissez-faire mean for business?
  3. What was meant by ‘rugged individualism’?
  4. Which two tax and trade measures did Republican governments use to protect and encourage American business?
  5. How did Henry Ford's assembly line change the making of cars?
  6. How were many Americans able to buy expensive goods such as cars and radios in the 1920s?
  7. Which industries grew fastest during the boom years?
  8. Which older industries declined while others boomed?
  9. Why did farmers do badly in a decade of prosperity?
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The USA 1919-1948: the People and the StateAnswers
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The US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’
  1. Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.
  2. Government interfered as little as possible, leaving companies free to run themselves with few regulations.
  3. The belief that people should succeed by their own hard work rather than rely on help from the state.
  4. High duties on foreign goods under the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922, and large cuts in taxes on companies and wealthy Americans.
  5. Each worker repeated one task as the car moved past, so cars were built far faster and the Model T became cheap enough for ordinary families.
  6. By hire purchase, paying a deposit and then instalments, encouraged by heavy national advertising.
  7. Motor cars, construction, electrical goods such as radios and vacuum cleaners, and chemicals.
  8. Coal, textiles, shipbuilding and the railways, which lost trade to oil, electricity, foreign competition and road transport.
  9. They produced far more food than could be sold, so prices fell and many could not repay the loans on their land and machinery.
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