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Last updated on Aug 24, 2026

OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Flashcards

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The characteristic features of medieval Britain: an overview

Jewish communities and their expulsion from England in 1290

The diversity of migrant communities

Attitudes towards migrants: official and unofficial responses

The characteristic features of medieval Britain: an overview

Crimes and criminals in medieval Britain

Enforcing law and order including policing and different types of court

Punishing offenders

The characteristic features of medieval Britain

Living conditions

Responses to the Black Death

Approaches to public health in late-medieval towns and monasteries

The European Reformation and the growth in world trade: an overview

Protestant refugees including Huguenots and Palatines

The diversity of other European migrants

Early African and Indian migrants to Britain

Major religious, political and social changes: an overview

The changing nature of crime including vagrancy, moral crime and witchcraft

Enforcing law and order

Changes in punishment including the introduction of the ‘Bloody Code’

Cultural, social and economic change including the growth of towns

Changing living conditions: housing, food, clean water and waste

Responses to outbreaks of plague

The impact of local and national government on public health

Industrialisation and the growth of empire

Large-scale migration from Ireland and the growth of Irish communities

Lascars and the growth of Indian, Chinese and African communities

The diversity of European migrants

The enlightenment, urbanisation and political change: an overview

Crimes and criminals in industrial Britain

The introduction and development of the police force

Changes in punishment

Industrialisation, the growth of major cities and political change

Urban living conditions in the early nineteenth century

Responses to cholera epidemics

Public health reform in the nineteenth century

World wars, the end of empire and Britain’s changing relationships

‘Aliens’ and refugees during the First and Second World Wars

Commonwealth migrants since the Second World War

Economic migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers since the 1980s

Major technological, social and political changes: an overview

Changes in the crime rate and in types of crime

Changes in law enforcement including the use of new technology

Changes in punishment

Economic, political, social and cultural change

Living conditions and lifestyles: housing, food, air quality and inactivity

Responses to Spanish Influenza and AIDS

Growing government involvement in public health

Hitler and the Nazi Party in January 1933

Establishing the dictatorship, January 1933 to July 1933

Achieving total power, July 1933 to August 1934

The extent and nature of Moctezuma’s Aztec empire in 1519

The wealth of empire: agriculture, crafts and trade

Centre of empire: the splendour of Tenochtitlan

The Islamic world, including its diversity and its relations with Christians

Pressures on the Byzantine Empire

Latin Christendom and the power of the papacy

How and why the USA expanded, from 1789 to 1838

The expansion of southern cotton plantations and of slavery, 1793–1838

The removal of indigenous people from the east, 1830–1838

Babur and his invasion of northern India: the beginning of the Mughal Empire, 1526–1530

The nature of the prize: northern India and its people c.1530

Humayun, his struggle to retain control, and the condition of the Mughal Empire by 1556

The Vikings in Scandinavia: landscape, society and everyday life

Viking ships, seafaring and trade c.750

Viking beliefs and rituals

Britain’s power and wealth at the beginning of the twentieth century

Class distinctions: the lives of the upper, middle and working classes

Rowntree’s investigation into the nature of poverty

Elizabeth and her court

Elizabeth and her parliaments including opposition from Puritans

Elizabeth and her people including local government and propaganda

The nature, structure and diversity of late Anglo-Saxon society