Eduqas GCSE History: Component 2 Option 2D — The Development of the UK, 1919-1990

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Britain in the Twenties

  • 1.1 – Post-war adjustment and expansion of the Welfare State
  • 1.2 – Troubles in Ireland
  • 1.3 – General Strike
  • 1.4 – Changes in the status of women

• Topic 2 — Life during the Depression

  • 2.1 – Mass unemployment in staple industries
  • 2.2 – Dole and the Means Test
  • 2.3 – Marching for jobs
  • 2.4 – New industry, migration and emigration

• Topic 3 — The Home Front

  • 3.1 – Preparations for war and effects of the Blitzkrieg
  • 3.2 – Evacuation and rationing
  • 3.3 – The role of women
  • 3.4 – Media and propaganda

• Topic 4 — Post-war Britain 1945-60

  • 4.1 – The establishment of the NHS
  • 4.2 – Nationalisation
  • 4.3 – Changes in education and increasing affluence

• Topic 5 — The ‘Swinging Sixties’

  • 5.1 – Changes in popular culture; consumerism and affluence
  • 5.2 – Liberalisation and permissiveness
  • 5.3 – Immigration and the race issue

• Topic 6 — The ‘Stuttering Seventies’

  • 6.1 – Civil unrest in Northern Ireland
  • 6.2 – Sovereignty and Europe; nationalist issues in Scotland and Wales
  • 6.3 – The Winter of Discontent

• Topic 7 — The Thatcher Years

  • 7.1 – Recession and recovery
  • 7.2 – The Falklands War
  • 7.3 – The Miners’ Strike 1984-85
  • 7.4 – Privatisation of industry

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