History is continuously changing the world around us and historic events have helped shape our society. At GCSE level, History develops the ability to ask relevant questions about the past and extend both knowledge and understanding. It enables students to become a critical and reflective thinkers, and helps develop skills, including communication and writing, and the ability to explain, analyse and make substantiated judgements.

Course Details

Edexcel IGCSE History 4HI1

Paper 1: Depth Studies

• Germany: development of dictatorship 1918-45: The Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany; Germany and the occupied territories in the Second World War
• A world divided: superpower relations 1943-72: Causes and developments of the Cold War; Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia; the move to détente

Paper 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies

• Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-24: Tsarist rule in Russia; the impact of war and the February revolution; the provisional government and the Bolshevik revolution; Bolshevik consolidation of power.
• China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900-89: A study of civil conflict, social and economic transformation and changing styles of leadership in modern China.