Summary GCSE AQA History FIRST WORLD WAR checklist - grade 9 - made directly from the specification

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Paper 1: 2hrs, 84 marks (Inc 4 for SPAG), 50% Of GCSE
BA: Conflict and Tension – The First World War, 1894-1918 (25%)
The causes
Militarism:
The naval race (inc three power standard)
The arms race
Weltpolitik
Alliances:
The triple alliance
The triple entente
Splendid isolation and Boer war
Imperialism:
First Moroccan crisis
Second Moroccan crisis
Nationalism:
The Bosnian crisis:
The Balkan wars
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Schlieffen plan

The First World War
The Schlieffen plan
Battle of Mons and Marne
Race to the sea
Stalemate factors (inc Trenches and Marne)
Weapons and war of attrition
Gallipoli campaign
Battle of Verdun
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Passchendaele
The Ludendorff Offensive
War at sea
Jutland
U-boats and convoys

Ending of the War
USA entry into WWI
Wilson’s 14 points
Russia’s withdrawal from the war
German army failing
The hundred days
Haig and Foch’s contribution to Germany’s defeat
British naval blockade and mutiny
Abdication of the Kaiser
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles