History
We’ve mapped a suite of UAS units to the History GCSE. The units breakdown the GCSE into bite-sized manageable chunks of learning making the qualification accessible to more learners.
Learners receive a certificate every time they complete a History unit.
Being able to reward achievement by giving rapid recognition of success in this way can boost a learner’s confidence in their own ability to make progress in History which in turn can increase engagement.
GCSE
GCSE History Option | Part | UAS unit title | UAS unit number
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1AA America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation | 1. Opportunities and challenges | America 1840–95: Expansion – Opportunities and Challenges: | |
1AA America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation | 2. Conflict across America | America 1840–1895: Conflict across America | |
1AA America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation | 3. Forging a nation | America1840–95: Consolidation – Forging the Nation | |
1AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship | 1. Growth of democracy | Germany and the growth of Democracy 1890–1929 | |
1AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship | 2. The Depression | Germany and the Depression | |
1AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship | 3. The experiences of Germans under the Nazis | Culture and Propaganda: Germany 1919–1945 The Germans’ experience under the Nazis: Germany, 1890–1945 | |
1AC Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and Communism | 1. The end of Tsardom | Russia, 1914–1924: Tsardom to Communism | |
1AC Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and Communism | 2. Lenin’s new society | Lenin’s New Society: Russia 1894–1945 | |
1AC Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and Communism | 3. Stalin’s USSR | Stalin’s USSR | |
1AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality | 1. American people and the ‘Boom’ | The USA, 1918–1929: The Roaring Twenties | |
1AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality | 2. Americans’ experiences of the Depression | The USA, 1929–1941: Depression and the New Deal | |
1AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality | 3. Post-War America | Post-war America: Race relations |
GCSE History Option | Part | UAS unit title | UAS unit number
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1BA Conflict and tension, the First World War, 1894–1918 | 1. The causes of the First World War | The cause of World War 1: Conflict and Tension, 1894–1918 | |
1BA Conflict and tension, the First World War, 1894–1918 | 2. Stalemate | Britain at war: The Western Front | |
1BA Conflict and tension, the First World War, 1894–1918 | 3. Ending the war | Ending the First World War: Conflict and tension, 1894–1918 | |
1BB Conflict and tension, Peacemaking, 1819–1939 | 1. Peacemaking | Conflict and tension 1918–1939: Peacemaking | |
1BB Conflict and tension, Peacemaking, 1819–1939 | 2. The League of Nations and international peace | Conflict and tension 1918–1939: The League of Nations | |
1BB Conflict and tension, Peacemaking, 1819–1939 | 3. The origins and outbreak in the Second World War | The Causes of World War 2: Conflict and tension, 1918–1939 | |
1BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972 | 1. The origins of the Cold War | The Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and its aftermath | |
1BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972 | 2. The development of the Cold War | Development of the Cold War: Conflict and Tension, 1945–72 | |
1BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972 | 3. Transformation of the Cold War | The Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | |
1BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975 | 1. Conflict in Korea | Conflict in Korea: Conflict and Tension in Asia | |
1BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975 | 2. Escalation of conflict in Vietnam | The Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | |
1BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975 | 3. The ending of conflict in Vietnam | The USA and Vietnam, 1964–1975 | |
1BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009 | 1. Tensions in the Gulf | ||
1BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009 | 2. The war on Al-Qaeda | ||
1BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009 | 3. The Iraq War |
GCSE History Option | Part | UAS unit title | UAS unit number
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2AA Health and the people: c1000 to the present day | 1. Medicine stands still | Medicine stands still: The beginnings of change | |
2AA Health and the people: c1000 to the present day | 2. The beginnings of change | Medicine stands still: The beginnings of change | |
2AA Health and the people: c1000 to the present day | 3. A revolution in medicine | Public Health after the Industrial Revolution Medicine in the Industrial and Modern World Surgery in the Industrial and Modern World | |
2AA Health and the people: c1000 to the present day | 4. Modern medicine | Public Health after the Industrial Revolution Medicine in the Industrial and Modern World Surgery in the Industrial and Modern World | |
2AB Power and the people: c1170 to the present day | 1. Challenging authority and feudalism | Power and the People: Challenging Authority | |
2AB Power and the people: c1170 to the present day | 2. Challenging royal authority | Power and the people: Challenging Royal Authority | |
2AB Power and the people: c1170 to the present day | 3. Reform and reformers | Power and the people: Reform and the reformers | |
2AB Power and the people: c1170 to the present day | 4. Equality and rights | Power and the people: Equality and rights | |
2AC Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | 1. Conquered and conquerors | Migration, Empires and people: Conquered and conquerors | |
2AC Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | 2. Looking West | Migration, Empires and people: Looking West | |
2AC Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | 3. Expansion and empire | Migration, empires and people: Expansion and Empire | |
2AC Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | 4. Britain in the 20th century | Migration, empires and people: Britain in the 20TH Century | |
2BA Norman England, c1066– c1100 | 1. Conquest and control | Norman England C1066–C1100: Conquest and control | |
2BA Norman England, c1066– c1100 | 2. Life Under the Normans | Norman England C1066–C1100: Life under the Normans | |
2BA Norman England, c1066– c1100 | 3. The Norman Church and monasticism | The Norman Church and monasticism | |
2BA Norman England, c1066– c1100 | 4. The historic environment of Norman England | The study of a historic site | |
2BB Medieval England – the reign of Edward I, 1272 – 1307 | 1. Government, the rights of King and people | Edward I’s government: The Rights of King and people |
GCSE History Option | Part | UAS unit title | UAS unit number
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2BB Medieval England – the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307 | 2. Life in Medieval England | Life in Medieval England in the reign of Edward I | |
2BB Medieval England – the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307 | 3. Edward I’s military campaigns in Wales and Scotland | Edward I’s Military Campaigns in Wales and Scotland | |
2BB Medieval England – the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307 | The historic environment of Medieval England | The study of a historic site | |
2BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603 | 1. Elizabeth’s court and Parliament | Elizabethan England C1568–1603: Court and Parliament | |
2BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603 | 2. Life in Elizabethan times | Elizabethan England C1568–1603: Life in Elizabethan Times | |
2BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603 | 3. Troubles at home and abroad | Elizabethan England C1568–1603: Troubles at home and abroad | |
2BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603 | 4. The historic environment of Elizabethan England | The study of a historic site | |
2BD Restoration England, 1660–1685 | 1. Crown, Parliament, plots and court life | Crown, parliament, Plots and court Life: England 1660–1685 | |
2BD Restoration England, 1660–1685 | 2. Life in Restoration England | Life in Restoration England 1660–1685 | |
2BD Restoration England, 1660–1685 | 3. Land, trade and war | Land, trade and war in Restoration England 1660–1685 | |
2BD Restoration England, 1660–1685 | 4. The historic environment of Restoration England | The study of a historic site |