Period Studies overview quiz - WJEC A-Level History quiz

Change and continuity across a long period

A single dramatic year examined in very close narrative detail

Only the lives of famous individuals

The reliability of one primary source

The French Revolution 1774 to 1795

Germany 1919 to 1991

The mid-Tudor crisis 1547 to 1558

Britain and the suffragettes

By a practical examination

By multiple-choice questions

By extended essay questions

By a spoken presentation

The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles imposed in 1919

The Night of the Long Knives

The building of the Berlin Wall

The Stresemann era, the Dawes Plan and the Locarno treaties

In 1905 the army stayed loyal; by 1917 war had broken army morale and supply

The tsar willingly abdicated the imperial throne in both 1905 and once more in 1917

There was simply no organised political opposition to tsarism in 1905

The Bolsheviks already governed Russia in 1905

Collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans

Glasnost and perestroika

War Communism and the NEP

The Dawes Plan and Locarno

War, peace and trade

Boom, bust and recovery

Relief, recovery and reform

Liberty, equality and fraternity

It completely ended all mass unemployment right across America by the year 1935

It abolished big business and nationalised the major American banks

It had no measurable effect at all on restoring public confidence

It rescued the system more than it cured unemployment, which rearmament ended

3 October 1990

9 November 1989

1 January 1949

13 August 1961

The steady growth of a vast German overseas colonial empire

The fragility and recovery of German democracy

The gradual decline of organised religion in Germany

The rise of global free trade and laissez-faire economics

Reaching a clear and firmly supported overall judgement

Using precise and accurately dated factual evidence

Writing pure narrative instead of analysis

Comparing developments carefully across the whole period