Cambridge IGCSE History
ACore content Option A: The nineteenth century: the development of modern nation states, 1848-1914
Overview
Candidates study EITHER Option A OR Option B of the Core content (Paper 1 Section A and Paper 2).
In this topic
- A1 Were the revolutions of 1848 important?
- A2 How was Italy unified?
- A3 How was Germany unified?
- A4 Why was there a civil war in the United States and what were its results?
- A5 Why, and with what effects, did nations gain and expand their overseas empires in the nineteenth century?
- A6 What caused the First World War?
Lessons
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The 1848 revolutions in France and the Austrian Empire
30 min
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Why so many revolutions broke out in 1848
25 min
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Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and the war of 1859
30 min
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Garibaldi and the completion of Italian unification, 1860-1870
30 min
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Italy before 1850: Austria, Mazzini and the failure of 1848-49
30 min
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Bismarck and the defeat of Austria, 1862-1866
30 min
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Bismarck, France and the German Empire, 1866-1871
35 min
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German nationalism, the Zollverein and the failure of 1848-50
30 min
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Causes of the American Civil War, 1820-1861
35 min
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Reconstruction in the United States, 1865-1877
30 min
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The Civil War, 1861-1865: why the North won
30 min
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French and British rule in Africa: Senegal and Nigeria
30 min
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Leopold II and the Congo Free State, 1885-1908
30 min
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Motives for European and US imperialism in the nineteenth century
30 min
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The British in India and the rising of 1857
30 min
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The Spanish-American War and US imperialism, 1898-1906
30 min
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Colonial rivalries and the Balkans, 1890-1914
30 min
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The alliance system and the arms race, 1890-1914
30 min
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The July Crisis and the outbreak of war, 1914
35 min
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