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HistoryQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Northern Ireland History syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Historical Skills: source, causation and interpretation technique
- Change and continuity: analysing the extent and pace of change across a period, including turning points and what stayed the same (AO2).4Q&A pairs
- Explaining causation: giving developed, linked reasons why an event happened and ranking them (AO2).4Q&A pairs
- Explaining consequence: identifying and ranking the results of an event, including intended and unintended consequences (AO2).4Q&A pairs
- Source comprehension: extracting information, making inferences and supporting them with detail from the source (AO3).4Q&A pairs
- Source utility and reliability: judging usefulness through origin, purpose and content (AO3), and why reliability is not the same as usefulness.4Q&A pairs
- The extended essay and interpretations: structuring an analytical essay (AO1 and AO2) and evaluating why historians differ and which view is more convincing (AO4).4Q&A pairs
Unit 1 Section A: Life in Nazi Germany 1933 to 1945
- Consolidation of power: the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act of 1933, the end of other parties, the Night of the Long Knives and the death of Hindenburg in 1934.4Q&A pairs
- Persecution and the Holocaust: Nazi racial ideology, the 1933 boycott, the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, Kristallnacht in 1938, the ghettos and the Final Solution.4Q&A pairs
- Propaganda and culture: Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda, radio, film, rallies and the press, the cult of the Fuhrer, and Nazi control of the arts and the Churches.4Q&A pairs
- The police state and terror: the SS, the Gestapo, concentration camps, the Nazi control of the courts, and the role of informers in keeping Germans in line.4Q&A pairs
- Young people and women: the Hitler Youth and League of German Girls, the Nazi school curriculum, the three Ks for women and the reversal of policy during the war.4Q&A pairs
Unit 1 Section A: Russia 1914 to 1941
- Stalin's rise and the Soviet economy: the power struggle after Lenin, the defeat of Trotsky, the Five-Year Plans for industry and the collectivisation of agriculture.4Q&A pairs
- Terror, propaganda and society under Stalin: the Great Purges and show trials, the secret police and Gulag, the cult of personality and the use of propaganda and censorship.4Q&A pairs
- The Civil War and Bolshevik consolidation: the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Reds against the Whites, War Communism and the Terror, and the move to the New Economic Policy.4Q&A pairs
- War and the revolutions of 1917: the impact of the First World War, the fall of the Tsar in February 1917, the Provisional Government, and the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.4Q&A pairs
Unit 1 Section B: Changing Relations, Northern Ireland 1965 to 1998
- Escalation 1968 to 1969: the Derry march of October 1968, the Burntollet ambush of January 1969, the Battle of the Bogside, and the deployment of British troops in August 1969.4Q&A pairs
- The hunger strikes and the Anglo-Irish Agreement: the 1981 hunger strikes and the rise of Sinn Fein, and the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 and unionist opposition to it.4Q&A pairs
- Internment, Bloody Sunday and direct rule: the introduction of internment in 1971, Bloody Sunday in January 1972, and the suspension of Stormont and introduction of direct rule in March 1972.4Q&A pairs
- O'Neill and the civil rights movement: discrimination, Terence O'Neill's premiership and reforms, the founding of NICRA in 1967 and the campaign for civil rights.4Q&A pairs
- Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers' Council strike: the power-sharing Executive and Council of Ireland of 1973, and the loyalist strike of 1974 that brought them down.4Q&A pairs
- The peace process 1993 to 1998: the Downing Street Declaration of 1993, the paramilitary ceasefires of 1994, and the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of 1998.4Q&A pairs
Unit 2: International Relations 1945 to 2003 (the Cold War)
- Korea and the Cuban Missile Crisis: the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 as a Cold War conflict, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and its consequences.4Q&A pairs
- Origins of the Cold War and the Berlin Blockade: the breakdown of the wartime alliance, the division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and Airlift of 1948 to 1949, and the formation of NATO.4Q&A pairs
- The end of the Cold War: Gorbachev's reforms, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.4Q&A pairs
- Vietnam and detente: American involvement in the Vietnam War and why the USA failed, and the easing of tension in the 1970s through detente and arms control.4Q&A pairs
Unit 2: Peace, War and Neutrality 1939 to 1945
- Eire's neutrality and the Emergency: de Valera's policy of neutrality, the reasons for it, the Treaty Ports, and the limits of neutrality in practice.4Q&A pairs
- Northern Ireland in the Second World War: the Belfast Blitz of 1941, the strategic and economic role of Northern Ireland, and the arrival of American troops.4Q&A pairs
- The impact and legacy of the war: the social and economic effects on Northern Ireland, the contrasting experiences of North and South, and the longer-term legacy of war and neutrality.4Q&A pairs