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  1. 10470.3.1.01 — Why had liberalism and nationalism grown in influence by 1848?. · Core content: Option A160 written
  2. 20470.3.1.02 — Why were there so many revolutions in 1848?. · Core content: Option A7 written
  3. 30470.3.1.03 — Did the revolutions have anything in common?. · Core content: Option A5 written
  4. 40470.3.1.04 — Why did most of the revolutions fail?. · Core content: Option A11 written
  5. 50470.3.1.05 — Did the revolutions change anything?. · Core content: Option A46 written
  6. 60470.3.1.06 — The nature of revolutions in 1848 and the influence of liberalism and nationalism. · Core content: Option A38 written
  7. 70470.3.1.07 — Causes, events and results of revolutions in:; France; Italy; Germany; the Austrian Empire. · Core content: Option A34 written
  8. 80470.3.1.08 — Reasons for the failure of the revolutions. · Core content: Option A17 written
  9. 90470.3.2.01 — Why was Italy not unified in 1848–49?. · Core content: Option A13 written
  10. 100470.3.2.02 — How important was Garibaldi’s contribution to unifying Italy?. · Core content: Option A10 written
  11. 110470.3.2.03 — Did Cavour help or hinder the unification of Italy?. · Core content: Option A10 written
  12. 120470.3.2.04 — How important for other European countries were moves towards Italian unification?. · Core content: Option A8 written
  13. 140470.3.2.06 — Italian nationalism and the role of Mazzini. · Core content: Option A10 written
  14. 160470.3.2.08 — Victor Emmanuel II and Cavour: the agreement of Plombières, war with Austria in 1859. · Core content: Option A15 written
  15. 170470.3.2.09 — Garibaldi and the invasion of Sicily and Naples. · Core content: Option A9 written
  16. 180470.3.2.10 — The creation of the Kingdom of Italy, completion of unification by 1870. · Core content: Option A8 written
  17. 220470.3.3.04 — How far was Bismarck responsible for the unification of Germany?. · Core content: Option A8 written
  18. 260470.3.3.08 — The setting up and eventual failure of the Frankfurt Parliament. · Core content: Option A7 written
  19. 300470.3.4.01 — How far did slavery cause the Civil War?. · Core content: Option A41 written
  20. 350470.3.5.01 — What were the motives behind European and US imperialism?. · Core content: Option A27 written
  21. 380470.3.5.04 — Why, and with what effects, did the United States gain former Spanish colonies?. · Core content: Option A20 written
  22. 390470.3.5.05 — Reasons for imperialism: economic, military, geopolitical, religious and cultural motives. · Core content: Option A13 written
  23. 400470.3.5.06 — Europeans in Africa: case studies of French, British and Belgian imperialism, and their impacts on Africans:; the French model of assimilati · Core content: Option A5 written
  24. 410470.3.5.07 — The British in India: the events of 1857 and the changes they brought to British rule. · Core content: Option A33 written
  25. 420470.3.5.08 — Wars of independence in the Philippines and Cuba, the Spanish–American War and the Treaty of Paris:; the debate in the USA over US imperiali · Core content: Option A12 written
  26. 430470.3.6.01 — Did the Alliance System and global diplomacy make war more likely or less likely?. · Core content: Option A22 written
  27. 440470.3.6.02 — How far did colonial problems create tensions between the Great Powers?. · Core content: Option A50 written
  28. 450470.3.6.03 — Why were problems in the Balkans so difficult for the Great Powers to solve?. · Core content: Option A10 written
  29. 460470.3.6.04 — How did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand lead to war?. · Core content: Option A13 written
  30. 470470.3.6.05 — The origins of the First World War, 1890–1914:; the Alliance System and the European diplomatic system; the 1902 Anglo–Japanese Alliance; th · Core content: Option A23 written
  31. 4Core content: Option B269 written
  32. 5Depth study A: The First World War, 1914–18126 written
  33. 6Depth study B: Germany, 1918–45126 written
  34. 7Depth study C: Russia, 1905–41164 written
  35. 8Depth study D: The United States, 1919–41187 written
  36. 9Depth study E: The Second World War in Europe and the Asia–Pacific,90 written

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