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AQA AS History, memorised in year one.
Everything the AS examines and nothing from the second year. Drill the 30 topics the 7041 specification actually examines.
- AS of 7042
- 30 topics
- 381 subtopics
AQA AS-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
Topic overviewThe Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the CrusadesManzikert and the Call of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade: Motives and CampaignThe Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader StatesThe Knights Templar and the HospitallersThe Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin WestZengi and the Fall of EdessaThe Second Crusade
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
Topic overviewThe Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469Ferdinand, Isabella and the NobilityForeign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and IsabellaThe Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of GranadaThe Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas ExpansionThe Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516The Inheritance of Charles VImperial Ideology and Conciliar GovernmentCharles V's Wars, Absences and Religious PolicyThe Conquest of the Americas and the Price RevolutionCharles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Topic overviewHenry VII's Claim to the ThroneHenry VII's Councils and GovernmentHenry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyPretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIISociety and the Economy under Henry VIIReligion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIHenry VIII: Character and AimsWolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeThe Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesThe Ranks of Tudor SocietyThe Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyHumanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Topic overviewThe Political Nation, Divine Right and James ICourt, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629Disputes between Crown and ParliamentArminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal RuleThe Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to WarThe First Civil WarThe Second Civil War and the LevellersThe Army, Parliament and the Regicide
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
Topic overviewRussian Society and Government in 1682The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the StreltsyPeter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St PetersburgPeter I's Early Economic, Political and Military ReformsOpposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy RevoltThe Azov Campaigns and the Battle of NarvaThe Poll Tax and State MonopoliesThe Holy Synod, the Senate and Church ReformThe Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of RanksWesternisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign PolicyThe Service State under Peter the Great
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
Topic overviewThe British Political System in 1783Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesPitt's Financial and Trade ReformsEarly Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamEnclosure and Agricultural ChangeSocial Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawThe French Revolution and British RadicalismThe Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionThe Wars with France and the Home FrontLuddism and Britain by 1812Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooCanning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationTextiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsUrbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRadicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismThe Great Reform Act of 1832
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
Topic overviewParliament and the Franchise before 1867The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and DisraeliThe Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural DepressionClass and Region in Victorian BritainThe Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and DisraeliIreland, the Great Famine and the Land QuestionGladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its OpponentsConservative Dominance before 1905Socialism and the Birth of the Labour PartyNew Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament ActThe Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff ReformNew Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's SuffrageLiving Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
Topic overviewAutocracy and Serfdom in 1855The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's ReformsReform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander IIPobedonostsev and RussificationLiberals, Populists and the Tsarist PoliceEconomy and Society after EmancipationNicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental LawsThe Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's IndustrialisationWorkers, Peasants and the Grain TradeLiberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and MarxistsThe First World War and the February RevolutionLenin's Return and the October RevolutionLenin's Ideology, War Communism and KronstadtStalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
Topic overviewThe Suez Canal and the Occupation of EgyptThe Indian Mutiny and the Government of India ActThe Scramble for Africa and the Chartered CompaniesMissionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to EmpireThe Boers, the Zulu War and Southern AfricaExpansion in Africa and the Government of IndiaLord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in EgyptIndirect Rule and the Entente CordialeChamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil RhodesThe Justifications for Empire and National EfficiencyExhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular ImperialismThe Boer War and the Union of South Africa
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
Topic overviewJohnson, Grant and Radical ReconstructionThe Redeemers and the Gilded Age PresidentsThe Post-Reconstruction South and Jim CrowThe Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded AgeThe Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign PolicyThe Populist Movement and the People's PartyProgressivism and Roosevelt's Square DealWilson's New Freedom and America's Economic RiseImmigration, Urban Growth and SegregationAmerican Imperialism and the War of 1898Neutrality and Entry into the First World WarAmerican Society and Industrial Power by 1920
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
Topic overviewThe States of the German Empire in 1871The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and ReichstagBismarck's Domestic PoliciesWilhelm II and WeltpolitikGerman Industrial Power before 1914The Burgertum and the Prestige of the EliteWorkers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Topic overviewPapal Supremacy and the Church HierarchySalvation and the Seven SacramentsCorruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517The Holy Roman Empire and Its ElectorsThe Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 ThesesThe Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 TreatisesLuther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of WormsKarlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's ReturnZwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' RevoltThe German Peasants' WarThe Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and MarburgThe Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
Topic overviewThe English Church and Its Wealth in 1529Humanism and the Call for Church ReformHenry VIII's Great MatterThe Reformation Parliament and the Break with RomeReformist and Conservative Factions at CourtFaction, Diplomacy and the DissolutionThe Reasons for and Effects of the DissolutionThe Pilgrimage of GraceThe Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's BookReligion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
Topic overviewJames I's Legacy and Charles I's KingshipCharles I, Buckingham and the Petition of RightThe Personal Rule and Its MinistersLaud's Reforms and Protestant FearsThe Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in IrelandPuritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' WarThe Bishops' Wars and the Recall of ParliamentCharles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640John Pym and the Long ParliamentDeadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish RebellionThe Attempt on the Five MembersThe Militia Ordinance and the Drift to WarThe Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
Topic overviewRichelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaMazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesWestphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesThe Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipThe Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesColbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesThe Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauGloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyThe Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
Topic overviewMercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years WarFrom the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea PartyThe Intolerable Acts of 1774The First Continental CongressCommon Sense and the Organisation of ResistanceGeneral Gage and the Road to LexingtonThe Declaration of Independence
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
Topic overviewLouis XVI and French AbsolutismThe Three Estates and Seigneurial RightsTaxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien RegimeThe Philosophes and the EnlightenmentThe Financial Crisis of the Ancien RegimeCalonne and the Assembly of NotablesThe Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-GeneralThe Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-GeneralThe National Assembly and the Fall of the BastilleThe Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the MonarchyThe Founding of the RepublicThe Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist RevoltThe Levee en Masse and the Coming of the TerrorThe Fall of the Factions and the Great TerrorThermidor and the Dismantling of the TerrorVendemiaire and the Directory
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
Topic overviewFederalism and States' RightsThe Northern Economy by 1845Cotton, Plantations and the Southern EconomyThe Missouri Compromise and the Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery ArgumentsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Formation of the Republican PartyDred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's FerryThe Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
Topic overviewHow Britain and France Made Foreign PolicyThe Economic and Military Strength of the Great PowersThe Scramble for Africa and Great Power RivalryBalkan Nationalism and Austria-HungaryThe Naval Race, the Arms Race and War PlansThe Moroccan CrisesThe Entente Cordiale and the Triple EntenteThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireThe Bosnian Crisis of 1908The Balkan WarsSarajevo and the Austrian UltimatumMobilisation and the Schlieffen PlanThe July CrisisItaly, the USA and the Widening War
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
Topic overviewA Young Kingdom: North, South and the RisorgimentoThe Italian Monarchy and the Narrow FranchiseGiolitti and the Gentiloni PactIndustrial Growth, Socialism and Labour UnrestNationalism, Futurism and the Triple AllianceIntervention in 1915 and Italy's War AimsThe Isonzo Front and CaporettoThe Home Front and the Peace SettlementFiume and the Mutilated VictoryPost-War Crisis and Political InstabilityThe Biennio Rosso and the Fascist ResponseThe March on Rome and Mussolini's AppointmentWhy the Elites Accepted MussoliniFascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the DuceThe Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti CrisisBuilding the Dictatorship, 1925-1926Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Topic overviewThe Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New LiberalismThe Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian EconomyEdwardian Class, Poverty and the People's BudgetThe Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home RuleThe Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal SplitThe War Economy, DORA and Post-War IndustryWomen's War Work, the Vote and ConscriptionThe War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish IndependenceLiberal Decline, the First Labour Government and BaldwinThe Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General StrikeThe Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920sThe Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
Topic overviewTsarism and the Strain of War by 1917The February RevolutionThe Provisional Government and the April ThesesThe October RevolutionThe First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party RuleBrest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil WarTrotsky and the Building of the Red ArmyWhy the Reds Won the Civil WarBolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red TerrorTambov and KronstadtThe New Economic PolicyForeign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet DiplomacyLenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for PowerPermanent Revolution and Socialism in One CountryThe Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great TurnThe Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Topic overviewThe Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyThe Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesThe Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsThe Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsThe Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschThe Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsStresemann and the Dawes PlanWeimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreHindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsStresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoThe Wall Street Crash and the German BanksBruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughNazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealThe Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenThe Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeThe Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyGleichschaltung and the One-Party StateThe Night of the Long Knives
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
Topic overviewJapanese Encroachment and the GuomindangThe Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's IdeologyYan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United FrontThe Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945The Race for Territory and the Marshall MissionThe Nationalist Position in 1946The Civil War and the Nationalist CollapseChina in 1949 and the Founding of the RepublicThe Mass Campaigns and the Grip on PowerThe Soviet Alliance and the Korean WarThe Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year PlanThe Great Leap Forward and the People's CommunesRectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
Topic overviewAmerican Power and Politics in 1945Truman and the Fair DealContainment, NATO and the Korean WarTaft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismCivil Rights in the Truman YearsEisenhower and Modern RepublicanismThe Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomySuburbia, the Highways and the New LookHungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisEisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATOBrown, Montgomery and Little RockThe Election of 1960The New Frontier and the Berlin WallCivil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
Topic overviewYalta, Potsdam and the Wartime AllianceThe Sovietisation of Eastern EuropeThe Marshall Plan and American Aid to EuropeThe Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATOJapan, China and NSC-68Korea in 1950 and the UN ResponseMcCarthyism and the Isolation of ChinaNATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina WarKhrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and HungaryThe Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris SummitThe U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space RaceThe Berlin Crisis and the Berlin WallThe Division of Vietnam and the NLFCuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Topic overviewThe Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964The Long Boom and Stop-GoWomen, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill RiotsForeign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964Harold Wilson and the National PlanDevaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969In Place of Strife, Education and Northern IrelandThe Abolition of Hanging and Divorce ReformThe Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960sVietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic AllianceHeath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon ParkThe Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 StrikeThe Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' StrikeNorthern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to SunningdaleThe Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of DiscontentFeminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970sPunk and the New Politics of the 1970sBritain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 ReferendumThe Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
Topic overviewStalin's Death and the System He LeftKhrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party GroupThe Secret Speech and De-StalinisationThe Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the ThawThe Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural FailureThe Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign PolicyThe Fall of KhrushchevBrezhnev and His Leading ColleaguesThe Kosygin Reforms and Economic StagnationDetente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold WarDissidents and Nationalist Unrest under BrezhnevAndropov, Chernenko and the Rise of GorbachevGorbachev's Aims and PerestroikaGlasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold WarChernobyl, Economic Restructuring and DemocratisationThe Opposition to GorbachevThe August Coup and the End of the USSRYeltsin and Shock TherapyPutin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
What AQA AS History covers, and what it leaves out
AQA AS History is specification 7041, the standalone first-year qualification alongside the 7042 A level. This page holds only what the AS examines: 30 topics across 381 subtopics, 5,732 active recall questions, starting with 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204, 1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598 and 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603. Every topic on the specification is examined at AS.
Starting the second year? The full AQA A-Level History page adds the A2 topics on top of everything here.
AQA AS and A-level History, specification 7042. Read the AQA specification at a glance ↗
The full specification
30 topics, 381 subtopics. Open any topic to see what is inside it.
011A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–12048 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the Crusades
- Manzikert and the Call of the First Crusade
- The First Crusade: Motives and Campaign
- The Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader States
- The Knights Templar and the Hospitallers
- The Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin West
- Zengi and the Fall of Edessa
- The Second Crusade
021B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–159811 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469
- Ferdinand, Isabella and the Nobility
- Foreign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and Isabella
- The Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of Granada
- The Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas Expansion
- The Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516
- The Inheritance of Charles V
- Imperial Ideology and Conciliar Government
- Charles V's Wars, Absences and Religious Policy
- The Conquest of the Americas and the Price Revolution
- Charles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
031C The Tudors: England, 1485–160312 subtopicsOpen topic
- Henry VII's Claim to the Throne
- Henry VII's Councils and Government
- Henry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign Policy
- Pretenders and Rebellions under Henry VII
- Society and the Economy under Henry VII
- Religion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VII
- Henry VIII: Character and Aims
- Wolsey, Cromwell and the Break with Rome
- The Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's Wives
- The Ranks of Tudor Society
- The Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician Economy
- Humanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
041D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–17028 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Political Nation, Divine Right and James I
- Court, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629
- Disputes between Crown and Parliament
- Arminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal Rule
- The Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to War
- The First Civil War
- The Second Civil War and the Levellers
- The Army, Parliament and the Regicide
051E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–179612 subtopicsOpen topic
- Russian Society and Government in 1682
- The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the Streltsy
- Peter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St Petersburg
- Peter I's Early Economic, Political and Military Reforms
- Opposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy Revolt
- The Azov Campaigns and the Battle of Narva
- The Poll Tax and State Monopolies
- The Holy Synod, the Senate and Church Reform
- The Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of Ranks
- Westernisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725
- The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign Policy
- The Service State under Peter the Great
061F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–188516 subtopicsOpen topic
- The British Political System in 1783
- Pitt the Younger and His Ministries
- Pitt's Financial and Trade Reforms
- Early Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and Steam
- Enclosure and Agricultural Change
- Social Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor Law
- The French Revolution and British Radicalism
- The Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of Union
- The Wars with France and the Home Front
- Luddism and Britain by 1812
- Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and Peterloo
- Canning, Wellington and Catholic Emancipation
- Textiles, Iron, Coal and the Common Lands
- Urbanisation and Working-Class Discontent
- Radicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of Methodism
- The Great Reform Act of 1832
071G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–196414 subtopicsOpen topic
- Parliament and the Franchise before 1867
- The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and Disraeli
- The Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural Depression
- Class and Region in Victorian Britain
- The Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and Disraeli
- Ireland, the Great Famine and the Land Question
- Gladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its Opponents
- Conservative Dominance before 1905
- Socialism and the Birth of the Labour Party
- New Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament Act
- The Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff Reform
- New Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's Suffrage
- Living Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare Reforms
- The Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
081H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–196414 subtopicsOpen topic
- Autocracy and Serfdom in 1855
- The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's Reforms
- Reform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander II
- Pobedonostsev and Russification
- Liberals, Populists and the Tsarist Police
- Economy and Society after Emancipation
- Nicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental Laws
- The Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's Industrialisation
- Workers, Peasants and the Grain Trade
- Liberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and Marxists
- The First World War and the February Revolution
- Lenin's Return and the October Revolution
- Lenin's Ideology, War Communism and Kronstadt
- Stalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
091J The British Empire, c1857–196712 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Suez Canal and the Occupation of Egypt
- The Indian Mutiny and the Government of India Act
- The Scramble for Africa and the Chartered Companies
- Missionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to Empire
- The Boers, the Zulu War and Southern Africa
- Expansion in Africa and the Government of India
- Lord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in Egypt
- Indirect Rule and the Entente Cordiale
- Chamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil Rhodes
- The Justifications for Empire and National Efficiency
- Exhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular Imperialism
- The Boer War and the Union of South Africa
101K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–197512 subtopicsOpen topic
- Johnson, Grant and Radical Reconstruction
- The Redeemers and the Gilded Age Presidents
- The Post-Reconstruction South and Jim Crow
- The Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded Age
- The Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign Policy
- The Populist Movement and the People's Party
- Progressivism and Roosevelt's Square Deal
- Wilson's New Freedom and America's Economic Rise
- Immigration, Urban Growth and Segregation
- American Imperialism and the War of 1898
- Neutrality and Entry into the First World War
- American Society and Industrial Power by 1920
111L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–199110 subtopicsOpen topic
- The States of the German Empire in 1871
- The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and Reichstag
- Bismarck's Domestic Policies
- Wilhelm II and Weltpolitik
- German Industrial Power before 1914
- The Burgertum and the Prestige of the Elite
- Workers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914
- War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919
- Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923
- Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
122A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–12166 subtopicsOpen topic
132B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–14996 subtopicsOpen topic
142C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–156412 subtopicsOpen topic
- Papal Supremacy and the Church Hierarchy
- Salvation and the Seven Sacraments
- Corruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517
- The Holy Roman Empire and Its Electors
- The Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 Theses
- The Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 Treatises
- Luther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of Worms
- Karlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's Return
- Zwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' Revolt
- The German Peasants' War
- The Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and Marburg
- The Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
152D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c157010 subtopicsOpen topic
- The English Church and Its Wealth in 1529
- Humanism and the Call for Church Reform
- Henry VIII's Great Matter
- The Reformation Parliament and the Break with Rome
- Reformist and Conservative Factions at Court
- Faction, Diplomacy and the Dissolution
- The Reasons for and Effects of the Dissolution
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's Book
- Religion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
162E The English Revolution, 1625–166013 subtopicsOpen topic
- James I's Legacy and Charles I's Kingship
- Charles I, Buckingham and the Petition of Right
- The Personal Rule and Its Ministers
- Laud's Reforms and Protestant Fears
- The Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in Ireland
- Puritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' War
- The Bishops' Wars and the Recall of Parliament
- Charles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640
- John Pym and the Long Parliament
- Deadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish Rebellion
- The Attempt on the Five Members
- The Militia Ordinance and the Drift to War
- The Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
172F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–171510 subtopicsOpen topic
- Richelieu and the Regency of Anne of Austria
- Mazarin, the Parlement and the Frondes
- Westphalia and the Treaty of the Pyrenees
- The Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661
- Louis XIV's Conception of Kingship
- The Royal Council, the Intendants and Versailles
- Colbert, Mercantilism and the Royal Academies
- The Huguenots and the Edict of Fontainebleau
- Gloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's Army
- The Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
182G The Birth of the USA, 1760–18018 subtopicsOpen topic
- Mercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760
- The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years War
- From the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea Party
- The Intolerable Acts of 1774
- The First Continental Congress
- Common Sense and the Organisation of Resistance
- General Gage and the Road to Lexington
- The Declaration of Independence
192H France in Revolution, 1774–181517 subtopicsOpen topic
- Louis XVI and French Absolutism
- The Three Estates and Seigneurial Rights
- Taxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien Regime
- The Philosophes and the Enlightenment
- The Financial Crisis of the Ancien Regime
- Calonne and the Assembly of Notables
- The Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-General
- The Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-General
- The National Assembly and the Fall of the Bastille
- The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791
- The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the Monarchy
- The Founding of the Republic
- The Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist Revolt
- The Levee en Masse and the Coming of the Terror
- The Fall of the Factions and the Great Terror
- Thermidor and the Dismantling of the Terror
- Vendemiaire and the Directory
202J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–187710 subtopicsOpen topic
- Federalism and States' Rights
- The Northern Economy by 1845
- Cotton, Plantations and the Southern Economy
- The Missouri Compromise and the Nullification Crisis
- Manifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850
- The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery Arguments
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
- The Formation of the Republican Party
- Dred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's Ferry
- The Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
212K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–194114 subtopicsOpen topic
- How Britain and France Made Foreign Policy
- The Economic and Military Strength of the Great Powers
- The Scramble for Africa and Great Power Rivalry
- Balkan Nationalism and Austria-Hungary
- The Naval Race, the Arms Race and War Plans
- The Moroccan Crises
- The Entente Cordiale and the Triple Entente
- The Decline of the Ottoman Empire
- The Bosnian Crisis of 1908
- The Balkan Wars
- Sarajevo and the Austrian Ultimatum
- Mobilisation and the Schlieffen Plan
- The July Crisis
- Italy, the USA and the Widening War
222L Italy and Fascism, c1900–194517 subtopicsOpen topic
- A Young Kingdom: North, South and the Risorgimento
- The Italian Monarchy and the Narrow Franchise
- Giolitti and the Gentiloni Pact
- Industrial Growth, Socialism and Labour Unrest
- Nationalism, Futurism and the Triple Alliance
- Intervention in 1915 and Italy's War Aims
- The Isonzo Front and Caporetto
- The Home Front and the Peace Settlement
- Fiume and the Mutilated Victory
- Post-War Crisis and Political Instability
- The Biennio Rosso and the Fascist Response
- The March on Rome and Mussolini's Appointment
- Why the Elites Accepted Mussolini
- Fascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the Duce
- The Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti Crisis
- Building the Dictatorship, 1925-1926
- Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
232M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–195714 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New Liberalism
- The Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian Economy
- Edwardian Class, Poverty and the People's Budget
- The Liberal Welfare Reforms
- The Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home Rule
- The Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914
- The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal Split
- The War Economy, DORA and Post-War Industry
- Women's War Work, the Vote and Conscription
- The War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish Independence
- Liberal Decline, the First Labour Government and Baldwin
- The Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General Strike
- The Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920s
- The Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
242N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–195317 subtopicsOpen topic
- Tsarism and the Strain of War by 1917
- The February Revolution
- The Provisional Government and the April Theses
- The October Revolution
- The First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917
- The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party Rule
- Brest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil War
- Trotsky and the Building of the Red Army
- Why the Reds Won the Civil War
- Bolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red Terror
- Tambov and Kronstadt
- The New Economic Policy
- Foreign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet Diplomacy
- Lenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for Power
- Permanent Revolution and Socialism in One Country
- The Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great Turn
- The Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
252O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–194519 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel Mutiny
- The Weimar Constitution and the Terms of Versailles
- The Military Terms of Versailles and German Reactions
- The Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923
- The Spartacist Uprising and the Freikorps
- The Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich Putsch
- The Munich Putsch and Weimar's Coalitions
- Stresemann and the Dawes Plan
- Weimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and Theatre
- Hindenburg's Election and the Golden Years
- Stresemann's Foreign Policy and Locarno
- The Wall Street Crash and the German Banks
- Bruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral Breakthrough
- Nazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi Appeal
- The Divided Left, Hindenburg and Papen
- The Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of Office
- The Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of Democracy
- Gleichschaltung and the One-Party State
- The Night of the Long Knives
262P The Transformation of China, 1936–199713 subtopicsOpen topic
- Japanese Encroachment and the Guomindang
- The Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's Ideology
- Yan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United Front
- The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
- The Race for Territory and the Marshall Mission
- The Nationalist Position in 1946
- The Civil War and the Nationalist Collapse
- China in 1949 and the Founding of the Republic
- The Mass Campaigns and the Grip on Power
- The Soviet Alliance and the Korean War
- The Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year Plan
- The Great Leap Forward and the People's Communes
- Rectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
272Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–198014 subtopicsOpen topic
- American Power and Politics in 1945
- Truman and the Fair Deal
- Containment, NATO and the Korean War
- Taft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyism
- Civil Rights in the Truman Years
- Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
- The Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties Economy
- Suburbia, the Highways and the New Look
- Hungary, Rollback and the Berlin Crisis
- Eisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATO
- Brown, Montgomery and Little Rock
- The Election of 1960
- The New Frontier and the Berlin Wall
- Civil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
282R The Cold War, c1945–199114 subtopicsOpen topic
- Yalta, Potsdam and the Wartime Alliance
- The Sovietisation of Eastern Europe
- The Marshall Plan and American Aid to Europe
- The Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATO
- Japan, China and NSC-68
- Korea in 1950 and the UN Response
- McCarthyism and the Isolation of China
- NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina War
- Khrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and Hungary
- The Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris Summit
- The U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space Race
- The Berlin Crisis and the Berlin Wall
- The Division of Vietnam and the NLF
- Cuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
292S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–200719 subtopicsOpen topic
- The Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964
- The Long Boom and Stop-Go
- Women, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill Riots
- Foreign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964
- Harold Wilson and the National Plan
- Devaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969
- In Place of Strife, Education and Northern Ireland
- The Abolition of Hanging and Divorce Reform
- The Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960s
- Vietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic Alliance
- Heath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon Park
- The Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 Strike
- The Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' Strike
- Northern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to Sunningdale
- The Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of Discontent
- Feminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970s
- Punk and the New Politics of the 1970s
- Britain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 Referendum
- The Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
302T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–200019 subtopicsOpen topic
- Stalin's Death and the System He Left
- Khrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party Group
- The Secret Speech and De-Stalinisation
- The Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the Thaw
- The Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural Failure
- The Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign Policy
- The Fall of Khrushchev
- Brezhnev and His Leading Colleagues
- The Kosygin Reforms and Economic Stagnation
- Detente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold War
- Dissidents and Nationalist Unrest under Brezhnev
- Andropov, Chernenko and the Rise of Gorbachev
- Gorbachev's Aims and Perestroika
- Glasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War
- Chernobyl, Economic Restructuring and Democratisation
- The Opposition to Gorbachev
- The August Coup and the End of the USSR
- Yeltsin and Shock Therapy
- Putin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
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History revision questions
Common questions about revising AQA AS-Level History. Tap any to open it.
What is on AQA AS History?
30 topics across 381 subtopics, examined as its own qualification, specification 7041. They are all listed on this page, and each one opens to the subtopics inside it. The full topic list is 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204, 1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598, 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603, 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702, 1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796, 1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 and more.
Does AS History count towards the full A level?
No. AS was decoupled in England in 2015, so AQA AS History (7041) is a separate qualification and none of its marks carry into the 7042 A level. It is still the same content though, which is why revising it well sets up the second year.
What is the difference between AS and A level History?
Every topic is examined at AS on this specification, so the two cover the same ground.
When do you sit AQA AS History?
Normally at the end of Year 12, in the summer series. That gives you one year to memorise 5,732 questions' worth of material, which is roughly 30 questions a day across an academic year if you start in September.
How should you revise for AS History?
By retrieval, not rereading. Cover the answer, pull it from memory, then check. Levo runs that loop across all 30 AS topics and brings each question back on a spaced schedule, so what you learn in September is still there in June.
Is it worth revising AS content again for the A level?
Yes, and it is the mistake most students make. The A-level papers examine this content again from scratch, and because the AS marks do not carry over, the only thing your first year leaves you with is what you still remember. Keeping it on a spaced schedule through Year 13 costs far less than relearning it.
How many questions are there for AQA AS History?
5,732, written from the 7042 subject content and grouped into 381 subtopics so you can work one small area at a time rather than a whole topic at once.
Can you use Levo for just the AS year?
Yes. Pick your subject, choose the AS topics on the topic screen, and every mode — the 3-step method, Cram, Blank Blitz, Build It and Test It — works only that material. Add the second-year topics when you get to them.
Every question in History, on a schedule.
Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.
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