History study guides

An overview of the SQA National 5 History exam skills: the recall question types (Describe, Explain) and the source-handling question types (Evaluate the usefulness, How fully, Compare) that appear in every context, plus how the Assignment is structured and marked.

An overview of the SQA National 5 History European and World context Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919-1939: the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles, the early threats to Weimar, the Nazi rise to power, the consolidation of dictatorship, Nazi control through terror and propaganda, and persecution and opposition.

An overview of the SQA National 5 History British context The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770-1807 (the trade in enslaved African people): the triangular trade and Britain's role, capture in Africa, the Middle Passage, the plantations, resistance by enslaved people, and the campaign that abolished the trade in 1807.

An overview of the SQA National 5 History Scottish context The Wars of Independence, 1286-1328: the succession crisis, the Great Cause, Edward I's conquest, the risings of Wallace and Bruce, Bannockburn, and how independence was secured by the Declaration of Arbroath and the 1328 treaty.