Description
This IGCSE History Course is ideal for anyone wishing to gain a knowledge and understanding of the subject. You will also find this course extremely valuable if you are looking for a progression route for further training whilst employed.
This course will help students develop an understanding of past events. In order to understand the present, we need to look at past events and observe how they influence the current state of the world. It would be impossible to understand the current social, economic and political climate without gaining a knowledge of events during the 20th century.
For this subject we can offer either Cambridge International Education (CIE) or Pearson Edexcel giving you great flexibility on the topics you want to specialise in and a choice of exam centres worldwide.
Cambridge Syllabus up to 2028 Exams
Cambridge Course Code(s):
IGCSE History (9-1): 0977
IGCSE History (A*-G): 0470
(Please note, there is no difference in the course teachings for the two specifications.
The only difference is the grade you will receive once you have taken the exams.
0977 is graded 9-1, 9 being the highest
0470 is graded A* to G, A* being the highest
Cambridge Exams: June & November
Cambridge Study Hours: 130 Hours
This IGCSE History CAIE Course will look at some of the major international issues of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as covering the history of particular regions in more depth. The emphasis is on both historical knowledge and on the skills required for historical research.
Students will develop an understanding of the nature of cause and effect, continuity and change, similarity and difference and find out how to use and understand historical evidence as part of your studies.
Cambridge IGCSE History Modules
Core content: Option B
The twentieth century: international relations from 1919
The Core content in Option B focuses on six key questions:
- Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
- To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
- How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939? Who was to blame for the Cold War?
- How effectively did the United States contain the spread of communism?
- How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
Candidates must study at least one of the following Depth studies:
- Germany, 1918–45
- The United States, 1919–41
Cambridge Assessment
All candidates take two components.
Paper 1 Structured Questions
2 hours
60 marks
Candidates answer two questions from Section A (Core content) and one question from Section B (Depth studies).
All questions are in the form of structured essays, split into three parts: (a), (b) and (c).
40% of the total IGCSE
Paper 2 Document Questions
1 hour 45 minutes
40 marks
Candidates answer one question on one prescribed topic taken from Section A (Core content).
Candidates are presented with a range of source materials relating to each prescribed topic.
The prescribed topics change in each exam series
30% of the total IGCSE
Paper 4 Alternative to Coursework
1 hour
40 marks
Candidates answer one question on a depth study.
All questions are in the form of structured essays, split into two parts: (a) and (b).
30% of the total IGCSE
Edexcel Syllabus
Edexcel Course Code(s): 4HI1
Edexcel Exams: June & November
Edexcel Study Hours: 130 Hours
This IGCSE History Course will help you get a good understanding of WW1 and selected other periods. You will be able to use historical sources critically, in context, recording significant information and reaching conclusions.
Edexcel IGCSE History Modules
Depth Studies
- Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
- A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
- A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
- The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
- The recovery of Germany, 1924–29
- The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933
- Nazi Germany 1933–39
- Germany and the occupied territories during the Second World War
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
- The Red Scare and McCarthyism
- Civil rights in the 1950s
- The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74
- Other protest movements: students, women, anti–Vietnam
- Nixon and Watergate
A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
- Reasons for the Cold War
- Early developments in the Cold War, 1945–49
- The Cold War in the 1950s
- Three crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovaki
- The Thaw and moves towards Détente, 1963–72
Investigation and Breadth Studies
The options chosen for this section are as follows:
The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18
- The alliance system and international rivalry, 1905–14
- The growth of tension in Europe, 1905–14
- The Schlieffen Plan and deadlock on the Western Front
- The war at sea and Gallipoli
- The defeat of Germany
China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89
- The fall of the Qing, Warlordism and chaos, 1900–34
- The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934–49
- Change under Mao, 1949–63
- The Cultural Revolution and its impact, 1965–76
- China, 1976–89
Edexcel Assessment
All candidates take two components.
Paper 1: Depth Studies
1 hour 30 minutes
60 marks
Students are assessed through an examination based on their selected depth studies.
Students answer two questions, one on each of the depth studies they have studied
50% of the qualification
Paper 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies
1 hour 30 minutes
60 marks
Students are assessed through an examination based on their historical investigation
and breadth study in change.
Students answer two questions, one question on their historical investigation and one
question on their breadth study in change.
50% of the qualification
