Revision Checklist: Impact of Empire 1688-1730

The key themes in this depth study are:

• How did England expand to become the British Isles?

• How did Britain expand their global empire?

• What was the economic impact of this expansion?

• What was the social and political impact of this expansion?

• For each section you will need to create either a mind-map or some flashcards on each key question of the content. This is a guide for your content revision, not an exhaustive list!

Revision Checklist: Impact of EmpireSection 1: English expansion and the creation of the British Isles

The Glorious Revolution:

•Why and how did William and Mary take over as English monarchs?

•How did the Irish respond to this and what

were the subsequent military campaigns?

•How did the Scottish respond to this and

how did these lead to events such as the

Jacobite rebellions and the Glencoe

Massacre?

•What was the Darien Scheme and why did

it fail?

•What was the 1707 Act of Union and why

did Scotland have to agree to it?

•Why did so many English emigrate to

America?

Revision Checklist: Impact of Empire

Section 2: The British Empire

Why did people begin to

explore the world under

Elizabeth I?

Which other European

countries were beginning to

build empires in this period?

Which countries became part

of the British Empire and

which were seen as the most

‘vital’ parts of the Empire?

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Section 3: The economic impact of the British EmpireExpansion into Africa and India:

•Why was the Bank of England set up in 1694?

•How did the East India Company get founded in 1600

and how did it establish a base in Kolkata?

Why did the East India Company struggle and then revive in the 18th century?

Competition with Europe:

•What was the Spanish War of Succession and why were Britain involved?

•Who got what from the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713? (specifically how did Britain benefit from this?)

•What was the South Sea Company and why did so many people invest in it in 1719?

•What were the consequences of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble?The slave-based economy: What was the Royal African Company and what were the consequences of the end of its monopoly in 1698?

What was the slave trade?

What was life like on the plantations in the Americas and the Caribbean?

How profitable were the plantations for Britain?

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• Section 3: The social and political impact of Britain’s Empire

• In what ways did the cities of Liverpool, Bristol and London benefit from the empire?

• How did consumerism grow in Britain and what sort of goods were people buying?

• What was the importance of coffee houses in Britain during this time?

• What sort of ideas about ‘racial hierarchy’ developed at this time?

• Why did people begin to question the slave trade in the early 18th

century?

Revision checklist: Spitalfields (Urban Environment Study)

You need to know about all of

the bullet points in the table on

the left in relation to Spitalfields

in East London.

All of the information you need

regarding this is on the

Spitalfields source and

information pack provided by

the exam board which is saved

in the relevant folder on the

year 11 revision page.

US Depth Study - You need to know:• The ‘Roaring Twenties’

• The US economy in the ‘Roaring Twenties’, including:

• Republican party policies and ideology;

• areas of industry and social groups that did, and did not, experience prosperity;

• the US government and women in the 1920s, including women’s rights movements and the Sheppard-Towner Act;

• causes, aims, implementation and failure of prohibition;

• prejudice and discrimination in US society, including the Jim Crow Laws and the Ku Klux Klan; the Red Scare, including the Palmer Raids and Sacco and Vanzetti;

• restrictions on immigration throughout the 1920s;

• attempts to combat prejudice, including the NAACP and the UNIA.

The 1930s and the New Deal

• Economic and social effects of the Great Depression and government response;

• Presidential election campaigns of 1932;

• Roosevelt and the First New Deal: the Hundred Days, Alphabet Agencies, including Agricultural Adjustment Agency, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Administration, National Recovery Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority;

• the Second New Deal, including Works Progress Administration, Social Security Act, Wagner Act, Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration; {

• reactions to, and impact of, the New Deals.

The impact of the Second World War on US society

• The mobilisation of the US people for the war effort, including propaganda campaigns, war production and its effects, the end of Depression;

• increased government and Presidential powers, including control of wages and prices, response of population to US involvement in war;

• social impact of the war, including rationing, tax on luxuries, housing shortages and an increase in divorce;

• women and the war effort;

• Japanese internment;

• the war as the foundation for the Civil Rights movement; the Detroit Race Riots 1943; segregation within the military;

• Executive Order 8802; desegregation of US troops in 1948.

Revision checklist: International Relations 1919-1939

• The Versailles Peace Settlement

• The League of Nations in the 1920s

• International agreements in the 1920s (Dawes Plan 1924, Locarno1925, Kellogg-Briand 1928, Young Plan 1929); attempts at disarmament.

• The impact of the worldwide economic depression.

• Tension in Europe in the 1930s including:

• Failure of the League of Nations

• Hitler’s actions

• The policy of Appeasement

• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

You need to know about each of these bullet

points.

There are lessons and resources on Edmodo for

each one, and you will also have notes in your

purple books.

Remember the questions we asked:

1. Did nationalism or internationalism triumph at Versailles?

2. Did nationalism or internationalism triumph in the 1920s?

3. What went wrong in the ‘hinge years’ 1929-1934?

4. What went wrong in international relations between 1934

and 1939?

Revision checklist: Interpretations of Appeasement

• What have historians said about appeasement over the last 80 years?

• Use the pack on Edmodo (interpretations of appeasement) and your class notes to make careful notes about what historians thought (and why!) in the following time periods:

• 1937-38 (Popular majority view)

• 1939-48 (Popular political view)

• 1948-1960s (Orthodox view)

• 1960s-1990s (Revisionist view)

• 1990s-2000s (Counter-revisionist view)

Revision checklist: International Relations – The Cold War 1945-1989

The Cold War in Europe

The Cold War in Europe 1945–1961: Rising Tensions

• The changing international order after 1945 and its consequences

• Actions of the USSR in Eastern Europe 1945–1948 and response of USA and its allies, including conferences at Yalta and Potsdam.

• The division of Germany; the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; the Berlin Blockade and Airlift.

• Development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

• The building of the Berlin Wall 1961 and its effects on international relations.

You need to know about each

of these bullet points.

There are lessons and

resources on Edmodo for each

one, and you will also have

notes in your purple books.

Revision checklist: Interpretations of the Cold War

What have historians said about the outbreak of the Cold War over the last 80 years?

Use the pack on Edmodo (interpretations of the Cold War) and your class notes to make careful notes about what historians thought (and why!)

• Orthodox: 1940s-1960s• Revisionist: 1960s-1970s• Post-revisionist: 1970s-1989• New Cold War historians: 1989

Revision checklist: International Relations – The Cold War 1945-1989

Cold War Conflicts

Cold War confrontations and conflict 1954–1989

• Developing Cold War tensions and conflicts

• The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.

• Origins of US involvement in Vietnam 1954-65.

• The Vietnam War: US tactics and their consequences; Vietcong tactics and their consequences.

• US withdrawal from Vietnam including opposition in the USA to the war.

• The end of the war and its impact on international relations.

You need to know about each

of these bullet points.

There are lessons and

resources on Edmodo for each

one, and you will also have

notes in your purple books.