AQA A-Level History
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Trying to preserve autocracy 1855–1894
The collapse of autocracy 1894–1917
The emergence of Communist dictatorship 1917–1941
The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction 1941–1964
The Origins of Conflict 1450–1459
The War of the Barons 1459–1461
The Triumph of the Yorkists 1461–1471
The Sun Splendour' the reign Edward IV 1471–1483
The downfall of the Yorkist Monarchy 1483–1486
The end of the Yorkist Dynasty 1486–1499
The Kaiserreich, 1871-1914
The Weimar Republic, 1914-1929
Nazi Germany, 1929-1945
Germany and the Second World War, 1939-1949
Divided German Federal Republic & the DDR1949-1963
Reasons for the crusades, 1095-1204
Leadership of the Crusades, 1095-1204
Crusader states of Outremer, 1100-1192
Muslim Counter Crusade, 1095-1192
Henry VII, 1485-1509
Henry VIII, 1509-1547
Edward VI, 1547-1553
Mary I, 1553-1558
Elizabethan England, 1558-1603
Consolidation of Mao’s Rule, 1946-1952
Origins of the Civil War, 1936-1946
Transition to Socialism, 1952-1962
Reform and Control, 1962-1966
The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
The PRC under Deng Xiaoping, 1976-1997
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Emancipation of the serfs
The relationship between the US and South Vietnam
Henry VII
Causes of rebellion in the years 1549 to 1569
Divisions within the Political Nation from the late 1670s to 1702
The threat posed by Catholics and Puritans to the authority of James I
Developments after the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918
1924 to 1928, Germany’s international position
The condition of Outremer in the 1120s and 1130s
The diversion of the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople in 1204
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