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AQA GCSE History: Paper 1 Option BA — Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918

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What this course covers

  • Part one — The causes of the First World War

    • 1.1 – The Alliance System
    • 1.2 – Anglo-German rivalry
    • 1.3 – Outbreak of war

  • Part two — The First World War: stalemate

    • 2.1 – The Schlieffen Plan
    • 2.2 – The Western Front
    • 2.3 – The wider war

  • Part three — Ending the war

    • 3.1 – Changes in the Allied Forces
    • 3.2 – Military developments in 1918 and their contribution to Germany’s defeat
    • 3.3 – Germany surrenders

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