Paper 1 Section A: Period studies

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• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study Plains Indians' way of life, early American Government policy towards the Plains Indians, the Permanent Indian Frontier and changing relationships with Plains Indians.
• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study the geography of North America, attitudes to the Great American Desert and the belief in Manifest Destiny.
• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study the background to the American Civil War, including North-South differences, slavery, westward expansion, free states, abolitionism, Missouri Compromise, John Brown, Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and civilian impacts.
• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study coming to terms with the Mormons, including the Mountain Meadow Massacre and its aftermath.
• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study the resolution of the Indian problem after 1865, including small reservations, attitudes to Native Americans, Little Big Horn, Dawes Act, Wounded Knee and closure of the frontier.
• AA America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation: Study continued western settlement, including Homesteaders, reasons for going west, government actions and laws, land, railroads, farming problems and solutions.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study Nazi social policy and practice, including impacts on women, young people, youth groups, education, churches, religion, Aryan ideas, racial policy, persecution and the Final Solution.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study economic changes under the Nazis, including benefits and drawbacks, employment, public works, rearmament, self-sufficiency and wartime impacts such as bombing, rationing, labour shortages and refugees.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study the impact of the First World War, including war weariness, economic problems, defeat, the end of monarchy, reparations, Ruhr occupation and hyperinflation.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study Weimar democracy, including political unrest from 1919 to 1923, Spartacists, Kapp Putsch, Munich Putsch, Stresemann recovery, new currency, Dawes Plan, Young Plan, international agreements and Weimar culture.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study the impact of the Depression, including growth in support for the Nazis and other extremist parties from 1928 to 1932, the role of the SA and Hitler's appeal.
• AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship: Study the establishment of Hitler's dictatorship, including the Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, elimination of political opposition, trade unions, Rohm, the Night of the Long Knives and Hitler becoming Führer.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study Russia's economy and society, including industrialisation and living and working conditions in cities and villages.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study Nicholas II's autocracy and court, including revolutionary opposition, the 1905 Revolution, October Manifesto, reform attempts to 1914, Dumas, political stalemate and Stolypin's land reform, industry and oppression.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study social and economic developments, including War Communism, the Kronstadt Rising, the New Economic Policy and the achievements of Lenin and Trotsky.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study the impact of Lenin's dictatorship, including the end of the First World War, Cheka, Red Army, the Civil War's causes, nature and consequences, Bolshevik success and propaganda.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study Stalin's modernisation of the USSR, including collectivisation, Five Year Plans, social and economic consequences for Kulaks, city dwellers, women, professional workers and industrial workers, and the extent of modernisation.
• AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism: Study the impact of the Second World War, including Stalin's wartime leadership and political, economic and social problems caused by the Great Patriotic War up to 1945.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study American society during the Depression, including unemployment, farmers, businessmen, Hoover's responses, Hoover's unpopularity and Roosevelt's election.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study the impact of the Second World War, including America's economic recovery, Lend Lease, exports and social developments affecting African-Americans and women.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study America and the Great Society, including Kennedy and Johnson's social policies on poverty, education and health, feminist movements, equal pay, the National Organisation for Women, Roe v Wade 1973, the 1972 Supreme Court equal-rights ruling and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study racial tension and Civil Rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s, including segregation laws, Martin Luther King, peaceful protest, Malcolm X, Black Power and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study social and cultural developments, including cinema, jazz and the position of women in society including flappers.
• AD America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality: Study divided society, including organised crime, prohibition, racial tension, immigrant experiences, immigration impact, the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Scare and the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
• Paper 1 Section A interpretation requirements: Analyse how two written interpretations of approximately 50 to 100 words differ.
• Paper 1 Section A interpretation requirements: Describe two key features or characteristics from Part one, Part two or Part three of the selected period study.