Depth Studies overview quiz - WJEC A-Level History quiz

It covers a much longer span of time across several centuries

It is never assessed by essays, only by short factual recall tasks

It uses no historical evidence and relies on opinion alone

It examines a short, intense period in close detail

Nazi Germany 1933 to 1945

The unification of Italy and Germany across the nineteenth century

Russia from the reforms of 1855 to the collapse of 1991

Politics, religion and society in early modern Britain

A large-scale foreign invasion of French territory

A financial crisis worsened by war debt

A decisive armed peasant victory in the countryside

The trial and execution of the reigning king

King Louis XVI, ruling through his royal ministers

General Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of the Republic

Maximilien Robespierre

Georges Danton, leading the moderate faction in opposition

The Nuremberg Race Laws and the Kristallnacht pogrom

The Dawes Plan and the Locarno Treaties of the 1920s

The Munich Agreement and the Anschluss with Austria

The Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act

It eliminated the SA leadership and rivals, securing army support

It launched the invasion of Poland that began the Second World War

It introduced a New Deal of public works to cut mass unemployment

It restored the Hohenzollern monarchy under a constitutional crown

The NUWSS used militant window-smashing direct action while the WSPU lobbied Parliament peacefully

The NUWSS used peaceful, constitutional methods; the WSPU used militant direct action

They shared identical tactics and merged into one single national campaigning body before 1900

Neither of the two groups actually campaigned for women to be granted the parliamentary vote

Gave every adult woman the vote at 18 on exactly the same terms as men

Removed the parliamentary vote from women who already held it locally

Gave the vote to women over 30 who met a property qualification

Gave women full and equal voting rights with men at a single stroke

It clearly had no measurable effect on opinion or government policy at all

It was always entirely peaceful and never involved any property damage

It only began after women over 30 had already won the vote in 1918

It may have publicised the cause or hardened opposition

The fall and execution of Robespierre in Thermidor (1794)

The storming of the Bastille fortress by the crowds of Paris

The royal family's failed flight to Varennes near the frontier

The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French in 1804

Using precise, well-selected evidence to support each analytical point made

Writing narrative instead of analysing causes and consequences

Reaching a clear, substantiated overall judgement in the conclusion

Carefully weighing competing factors against each other before deciding