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Regency of Somerset, 1547-49
Rule of Northumberland, 1549-53
Reign of Mary Tudor, 1553-58
The establishment of government and power
Peace with Germany
Civil war and foreign relations (1918 to 1924)
War Communism and New Economic Policy (1918 to 1921)
Lenin, government and the Communist Party
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Stalin’s record as a revolutionary before 1924
The power struggle within the Communist Party
‘Permanent revolution’ versus ‘socialism in one country’
Stalin’s defeat of Trotsky and the Left
Stalin’s defeat of the Right
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The Reformation Parliament and the establishment of Royal Supremacy
The extent of religious change in the 1530s
Opposition to religious change
Royal authority and government in the 1530s
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Henry VIII: The start of a new era
Wolsey as Chief Minister- Church and State
England's relations with foreign powers, 1509-1529
Henry's quest for a divorce
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England’s relations with foreign powers
Factions at court and the succession
Position of the church by 1547
Assessment of Henry VIII’s reign
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Structure of Russia's government, 1917
Russia at war, 1917
The February Revolution, 1917
The Dual Authority and continued dissent
The October Revolution, 1917
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Revision notes about Henry VII's life and role in the establishment of the Tudor Dynasty
England in 1485
Henry VII and the consolidation of power
Removing threats to Henry's power
Relations with other countries, 1485 to 1509
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Great Plains geography
Indian family structure
Indian beliefs
Fighting reasons and methods of Indians vs fighting reasons and methods of Whites
Mountain Men e.g. Jim Bridger
Problems associated with using wagons
Donner Party
Miners
Problems in mining towns
Mormons (including problems and how they dealt with them)
Homesteaders (including push and pull factors, problems faced and how they dealt with them, role of women)
Railroads (including benefits and drawbacks)
Ranchers e.g. John Cliff (including why they succeeded)
Problems with cattle trails
Crime and criminals e.g. Wyatt Earp
The Johnson County War
The 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty
The Civil War (1861-5)
Little Crow’s War 1862
The Cheyenne Uprising and Sand Creek- 1864
Red Cloud’s War and the Bozeman Trail- 1866
The Sioux Campaign 1876
Chato and Geronimo’s campaign
Ghost Dancers and Wounded Knee- 29th December 1890
Ways in which the Indian way of life was destroyed
The Dawes Act 1887
Roman public health schemes
Medical help in Roman Britain (Home remedies, Gods and their priests, Trained doctors)
Hippocrates
Galen
Hospitals in the Middle Ages
Believed causes of disease in the Middle Ages
Ways to stay healthy in the Middle Ages
Public health in the Middle Ages
Church’s influence on medicine and health
The Black Death
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
The Royal Society
A physician’s training circa 1500 vs A physician’s training in the late 1700s
The effects of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
Believed causes of disease in the early 1800s
The key breakthroughs in the fight against disease (The development of vaccinations, Germ theory, The identification of bacteria that cause individual diseases, The discovery of DNA)
Antibiotics
Alternative therapies e.g. herbal remedies
The development of penicillin and antibiotic medicines
X-rays
Radiation therapy
Scanning to diagnose early stages of illness
Technology in the home
Florence Nightingale
Changes in the training of doctors
Public health in 1350 vs Public health in the 1600s
The streets, Water supplies, Public toilets, Sewers and waste removal
Edwin Chadwick
William Farr
The impact of cholera
The work of John Snow
The Great
Joseph Bazalgette
Charles Booth
Seebohm Rowntree
Changes the Liberal government of 1906-1914 made
Impact of the World Wars
The Beveridge Report 1942
Opposition to the NHS
A Level revision notes
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Stalin’s economic aims after 1929: the great turn
Collectivisation and the war against the peasantry
Industrialisation: the first three Five-Year Plans
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The purges and the mechanisms of control
Soviet totalitarianism and its impact on culture and society
Stalin’s cult of personality
Stalin’s foreign policy 1933-41
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Elizabeth’s accession
Elizabeth’s religious settlement, 1558-63
Marriage and the succession: Elizabeth’s dilemma
Social and economic conditions in the mid-sixteenth century
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Stalin as a war leader
The impact of the war on the USSR
High Stalinism in the USSR 1945-53
High Stalinism: the USSR’s international position 1945-53
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Elizabeth and her court
Elizabethan government
Elizabeth and her Parliaments
Elizabeth: Religion and religious ideas
Church of England by 1603