My Revision Notes OCR (A) GCSE Schools History Project
Published on 26. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-4441-5854-0 (ISBN)
Description
Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to succeed in OCR (A) GCSE Schools History Project. How this revision guide helps you: - It condenses each topic into easy-to-revise chunks with tick boxes to track your progress - There is a revision task for each chunk of content to make sure you have understood and learnt the key information - Key term boxes help you learn the essential vocabulary - Exam Practice provides sample exam questions for each topic - and you can check your answers online - Exam tips explain how to approach each kind of sample question and help you avoid the most common mistakes people make in their exams - For each topic there are also quick quizzes online at www.hodderplus.co.uk/myrevisionnotes It covers the most popular content from the specification: For the development study - Medicine through time For the depth studies - The American West 1840-1895 and Germany c1919-1945
Reviews / Votes
'Ms O'Gorman's long awaited set of GCSE History revision notes proved to be well worth waiting for. It is easy to use and provides many helpful insights to curriculum learning. Thoroughly recommended for GCSE History students and their parents.' -- Amazon reviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 298 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4441-5854-0 (9781444158540)
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Persons
Louise O'Gorman (author) and Bill Marriott (editor) are both experienced examiners with a major awarding body.
Content
1 MEDICINE THROUGH TIME 1.1 Overview 1: Create your own thematic timeline 1.2 Overview 2: Turning points and factors 1.3 Prehistoric times 1.4 Ancient Egypt 1.5 Ancient Greece 1.6 Ancient Rome 1.7 The Middle Ages (1): The impact of war and religion Case study: The Black Death in England 1.8 The Middle Ages (2): Surgery, living conditions and caring for the ill Case study: Public health in the Middle Ages 1.9 The medical Renaissance Case study: Quack doctors Case study: Inoculation, Jenner and the development of vaccination 1.10 Overview timeline - the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 1.11 Fighting disease in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Case study: The development of penicillin Case study: The development of hospitals 1.12 Surgery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Case study: Developments in anaesthetics and antiseptics 1.13 Public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Case study: The development of public health systems in the nineteenth century 2 THE AMERICAN WEST, 1840-1895 2.1 How did the Plains Indians live on the Great Plains? 2.2 Why did people travel to the West? The pioneers and the Mormons 2.3 Why did people settle in the West? The homesteaders, railroads, and law and order 2.4 What were the consequences of the spread of cattle ranching to the Plains? 2.5 Why did white Americans and the Plains Indians find it so difficult to reach a peaceful settlement of their differences? 3 GERMANY, c.1919-1945 3.1 Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start? 3.2 How was Hitler able to come to power in Germany? 3.3 The Nazi regime: How effectively did the Nazis control Germany, 1933-1945? 3.4 The Nazi regime: What was it like to live in Nazi Germany?