The Domesday book paints a picture of the grown of towns in the Norman period; over 200 hundred of them in the reign of William alone. Why did towns grow - and perhaps more importantly, how did they grow?

In the final episode for the Class of 2017, we run through how to answer each of the questions on both of the AQA GCSE History B papers.

So for us on Paper 1 that's:

Origins of WW1

Peacemaking and the League of Nations

Hitler's Foreign policy, Appeasement and the Origins of WW2

 

and, on Paper 2;

USA in the 1920s

Germany 1933-45

Vietnam 1954-75

For the last time - and we really do mean it:

Thank you for listening - and good luck in your exams.

The USA lost. One of the two great superpowers lost. It can be argued that America never got over their defeat in Vietnam. So why did they leeave?

 

In this episode we consider the factors that led towards Nixon claiming that they had peace with honour while the world watched the last chopper flee from the American Embassy in Saigon, leaving screaming crowd to their fate.

 

This is the last episode for the 2017 Year 11s, so let's just say good luck with your exams!

How the VC won is a slightly different question: but why didn't the USA win? The strongest natio on earth faced some particular problems in the Vietnam War. What were they?

As a general rule the USA solves problems by throwing money and technology at them. But this did not work in Vietnam. Why?

 

In this essay style episode, we discuss which of the two sides in the war had the most effective tactics.

Why did the USA even get involved in Vietnam? It's thousands of miles away and, at first glance, of no strategic value. The answer lies in the background to the Cold War and some fairly tangled geo-politics and economics. Have a listen to this episode and decide for yourself - which was the main reason the Americans got involved in a land war in South east Asia?

Even leaving aside the apparatus of the police state, Nazi control of Germany must have depended to some extent on the support of the German People. So why did people support the Nazi regime? The answer, as is also true in the case of Dick Nixon, is simple: follow the money.

After the Enabling Act and the Emergency Decree, the Nazi party has control of most of the levers of power in the German State. But there was always one other power bloc in Germany: the army. And the army were willing to throw their support behind Hitler and his party - but at a price...

In early 1933, Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany but he had very little, actual power. How did the Nazis sieze control of the German state? That long road started with a fire in the Reichstag.

How did Hitler become Chancellor? One of the most common mistakes people make is thinking that Hitler and the Nazis were elected to power. As you will see in this episode, the truth is rather more complex....