CSS SYLLABUS 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 Cameroun (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