Understanding the Modern World

Understanding the Modern World Synopsis

Exam Board: AQA
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018

AQA approved

Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.

- Motivate your students to deepen their subject knowledge through an engaging and thought-provoking narrative that makes historical concepts accessible and interesting to today's learners

- Embed progressive skills development in every lesson with carefully designed Focus Tasks that encourage students to question, analyse and interpret key topics

- Take students' historical understanding to the next level by using a wealth of original contemporary source material to encourage wider reflection on different periods

- Help your students achieve their potential at GCSE with revision tips and practice questions geared towards the changed assessment model, plus useful advice to aid exam preparation

- Confidently navigate the new AQA specification using the expert insight of experienced authors and teachers with examining experience

This single core text contains:

All four period studies:

- America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation

- Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship

- Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism

- America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality

The following wider world depth studies:

- Conflict and tension, 1894-1918

- Conflict and tension, 1918-1939

- Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972

- Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975

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