BRITISH HISTORY CSS Syllabus

Table of Contents

PAPER: BRITISH HISTORY (100 MARKS)

Part –I (Marks 50)

I. The Glorious Revolution (1688)
 Causes, and Results
 William III and Mary II (1689-1702)
 Queen Anne (1702-1714)

II. Hanoverian Era (1714-1790)
 Jacobite Rebellions (1715 and 1745)
 Robert Walpole and Whig Oligarchy
 American War of Independence (1776)

III. The Union of England and Scotland
IV. Union of England and Ireland
V. The Old Colonial system
VI. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
 Causes
 Britain and Napoleonic Wars
 Impact on Britain

VII. Industrial and Agricultural Revolution
 Causes
 Effects on Political and Social Life of Britain
 Party Politics
 The Methodist Movement
 Socialism
 Liberalism
 Colonization
 Chartest Movement

VIII.Robert Peel and return of Torries
 Internal policies
 Irish Problem

IX. Victorian Era (1837-1901)
 Internal Reforms
 Liberals
 Foreign Policy
 Disraeli, Gladstone and Problems in Ireland
 Great Britain and Free Trade

X. Edwardian Era (1901-1910)
 Domestic and Foreign Policies (1901-1910)
 The Origins of Labor Party

XI. Britain, World War I and its Aftermath
 Causes
 Britain and Peace settlement
 Effects of War on Britain
 League of Nations
 The Great Depression
 Appeasement and Rearmament

Part –II (Marks 50)

XII. Britain ,World War II and its Aftermath
 Causes and events
 Churchill, War Conferences
 Creation of U.N.O
 Effects of war
 Reforms of Labour Government

XIII. Great Britain and Cold War
 Creation of Common Wealth
 NATO
 Decolonization of the British Empire
 Internal Policies and EEC
 Foreign Policy

XIV. Thatcherism to Cameron (1979-2012)
 Internal Policy
 Society and culture
 Foreign Policy
 Falkland War
 John Major and his Policies
 European Common Market and the Great Britain
 Formation of EU
 Tony Blair “New Labour” Economic Crunch, War on Terror and his Policies
 Global Financial Crisis 2008 and the Great Britain
 Reforms under Cameroun