GCSE
Paper 1 is ...
….Understanding the modern world
It is worth 40 marks and is 2 hours long
Answering questions on one section from
- America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation
- Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
- Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism
- America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality
AND then one section from
- Conflict and tension – First World War, 1894-1918
- Conflict and tension – The inter-war years, 1918-1939
- Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972
- Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
- Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009