Timelines relevant to the Edexcel International GCSE History specification are a useful way of learning about events, recognising cause and effect, seeing change over time as well as understanding things that are happening at the same time.
Across TheTimelineGeek we have a huge number of timelines relevant to UK exam topics. Some have been produced specifically for a particular exam while others offer relevant and/or background information.
Listed below each topic are the timelines that are relevant for that subject
Edexcel International GCSE History – Timelines for Paper 1 Topics
1 – The French Revolution, c1780–99
The French Revolution Causes and Events
2 – Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848–70
3 – Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918 – 1945
Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
4 – Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919–47
5 – Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924–53
Stalin’s Russia 1922 – 1953
6 – A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
International Relations: Cold War 1945 – 1991
7 – A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74
American Civil Rights Movement 1865 – 1968
8 South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948–94
Edexcel International GCSE History – Timelines for Paper 2 Topics
A1 – The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18
World War One Causes 1878 – 1914
World War One 1914 – 1918
A2 – Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24
1905 Russian Revolution Causes and Events
1917 Russian Revolution Causes and Events
Tsarist Russia 1855 – 1922
A3 – The USA, 1918–41
The American Dream 1915 – 1988
A4 – The Vietnam Conflict, 1945–75
Vietnam War Causes and Events 1887 – 1978
A5 East Germany, 1958–90
B1 – America: from new nation to divided union, 1783–1877
Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
The American West 1830 – 1892
B2 – Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948
B3 Japan in transformation, 1853–1945
B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
B5 – The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011
B6 The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919–2011
B7 The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917–2012
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