IGCSE HISTORY KEY WORDS & DEFINITIONS – 170 ESSENTIAL TERMS
A comprehensive, student-friendly IGCSE History vocabulary and revision booklet containing 170 essential historical terms, concepts, source-analysis words and examination command words with clear definitions.
Designed for students aged 14–16, this 15-page resource provides a useful reference guide that students can use throughout their IGCSE History course, during independent revision, for homework, in lessons or before examinations.
The vocabulary has been organised into clear sections so that students can quickly locate and revise important terminology.
INCLUDED
• 170 key History words and definitions
• 15-page revision booklet
• Historical concepts and terminology
• Political and ideological vocabulary
• International relations terminology
• War and conflict vocabulary
• Economic and social history terminology
• Important twentieth-century History vocabulary
• Source-analysis terminology
• IGCSE examination command words
• Revision checklist
• Clear contents page
• Large, student-friendly font
• Professional illustrated cover
• PDF version
• Editable Microsoft Word version
EXAMPLES OF KEY TERMS
Students revise important terminology such as:
Appeasement
Armistice
Capitalism
Collective security
Communism
Dictatorship
Fascism
Imperialism
Nationalism
Propaganda
Reparations
Sanctions
Totalitarianism
Treaty
Alliance
Cold War
Containment
Democracy
Depression
Ideology
The booklet also teaches important historical source and examination vocabulary, including:
Bias
Context
Evidence
Inference
Interpretation
Provenance
Purpose
Reliability
Significance
Utility
Cause
Consequence
Change
Continuity
Compare
Describe
Explain
Evaluate
IDEAL FOR
• IGCSE History students
• GCSE History students
• Cambridge IGCSE History
• Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History
• Years 10–11
• Classroom revision
• Homework
• Knowledge retrieval
• Intervention sessions
• Examination preparation
• Independent study
• EAL students learning History terminology
Definitions are deliberately written in accessible language while retaining the historical accuracy students require at IGCSE level.
Teachers can print the complete booklet, provide selected pages for individual topics, upload the PDF for digital revision or edit the Word version to match their own History course.
An excellent whole-course History glossary that students can keep in their folders or revision files and refer to throughout their IGCSE studies.