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Student e-book: Core Option A

  • Student e-book: Core Option A

Option A covers key themes and events of the 19th Century across range of continents.

The themes of nationalism and imperialism in Europe come together in the final topic on the causes of the First World War.

The Cambridge syllabus for this option is based on six key questions.

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The nineteenth century: the development of modern nation states, 1848–1914

2. How was Italy unified?

3. How was Germany unified?

4. Why was there a civil war in the United States and what were its results?

5. Why, and with what effects, did nations gain and expand their overseas empires in the nineteenth century?

6. What caused the First World War?

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