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GCSE History Practice Book 2

Exam Skills: The 16-Mark 'Explain Two of the Following' Importance Question, Comparing the Effectiveness of Federal Policies Towards the Plains Indians, Explaining Success and Failure in Settlement of the Great Plains and 6 more

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Pages
83 A4 pages (limit 90)
Chapters
9 worksheet chapters
Questions
147, 507 marks
Answers
Full mark schemes from page 57
Level
GCSE
For
Years 10-11, Edexcel / AQA

What is inside

Every chapter opens with a divider page giving its marks and suggested timing, then runs its question pages. The mark schemes for all 9 chapters are grouped at the back, so the book works as homework, as a timed test, or as revision.

  1. 01Exam Skills: The 16-Mark 'Explain Two of the Following' Importance Question15 questions · 51 marks · about 65 minp3
  2. 02Comparing the Effectiveness of Federal Policies Towards the Plains Indians15 questions · 48 marks · about 65 minp9
  3. 03Explaining Success and Failure in Settlement of the Great Plains17 questions · 57 marks · about 65 minp14
  4. 04Identifying and Explaining Turning Points in the American West15 questions · 51 marks · about 65 minp20
  5. 05Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Grand Alliance and the Wartime Conferences, 1941-4517 questions · 60 marks · about 65 minp26
  6. 06Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Growing Rivalry and the Berlin Blockade, 1945-5817 questions · 59 marks · about 65 minp32
  7. 07Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Berlin Crisis and the Building of the Berlin Wall, 1958-6117 questions · 61 marks · about 65 minp38
  8. 08Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 196217 questions · 60 marks · about 65 minp44
  9. 09Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring, 196817 questions · 60 marks · about 65 minp50
  10. AnswersMark schemes for every chapterp57

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More in GCSE History

The series runs to 9 volumes, in curriculum order. They are all free.

Volume 1The American West, c1835-c1895: The Plains Indians' Way of Life, The American West, c1835-c1895: Migration and Early Settlement, The American West, c1835-c1895: Conflict and Tension, c1835-1854 and 5 moreVolume 3Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Detente, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War, 1970-91, Detente and Arms Control: SALT I and the Helsinki Agreement, 1969-75, The Collapse of Detente: SALT II and the Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979 and 6 moreVolume 4Elizabethan Government in 1558: Court, Privy Council and the Problems Elizabeth Inherited, Early Elizabethan England, 1559: The Religious Settlement, Early Elizabethan England, 1559-85: The Catholic and Puritan Challenges and 6 moreVolume 5Elizabethan Leisure and the Growth of Theatre, Medicine in Britain, c1250-c1500: Ideas About the Cause and Treatment of Disease, Medicine in Britain, c1700-c1900: Vaccination, Germ Theory and Public Health and 6 moreVolume 6The Black Death, 1348-49: Causes, Spread and Contemporary Responses, The Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and John Snow's Broad Street Investigation, The Role of Individuals in Driving Medical Change, c1250-Present and 5 moreVolume 7The Western Front, 1914-16: Trench Warfare, Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation, Trench Foot, Trench Fever and Frostbite: Illness on the Western Front, The Western Front, 1914-18: Trench Systems and the Terrain of the British Sector and 6 moreVolume 8Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1929-1934: The Nazi Rise to Power and the Creation of the Dictatorship, Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1923: The Origins of the Republic and Early Crises, Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1924-1929: The Recovery of the Republic and 4 moreVolume 9Formation of the Nazi Party and Hitler's Rise to Leadership, 1919-1921, The 25-Point Programme and Early Nazi Ideology, 1920, The Sturmabteilung and Nazi Party Organisation, 1921-1923 and 4 more

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