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GCSE HISTORY – YEAR 10/11
THE COLD WAR
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
End of topic test
Europe in 1945
(1 lesson)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Names of
countries. East West divide.
Division of
Europe – Soviet
Expansion.
Map analysis.
OHP map & overlays.
Outlines available.
(Atlases?)
Yalta & Potsdam
(1 lesson)
Origins of Conflict
Ideological Gap
(1 lesson)
Terms of these
agreements.
Peace settlement
agreed by allies.
Interpretation of
peace terms.
OHP available.
Cold War,
capitalism,
communism,
super powers
Ideological
differences led to
Cold War.
Comparison of
beliefs.
Information sheet –
‘Cold War’
Mills. P196-197
Germany 1945-8
(2 lessons)
Hardship, barter,
occupation zones,
Control Council,
reparations.
Conditions in
Germany.
Division of
Germany,
Analysis of cartoon
& stats. & maps
Fisher, p10.
Information sheet (with
OHP qs.)
(outline maps
available)
Iron Curtain
(1 lesson)
Iron Curtain
(Churchill
speech)
Creation of
barrier in Europe.
Interpretation of
views.
Cartoon analy.
Fisher, p6-7. Mantin.
P52-3.
Mills, p199. Info.
Sheet (with OHP)
* Sources question.
Truman Doctrine
(1 lesson)
Doctrine,
containment.
Containment of
communism.
Analysis of graph,
speech, cartoons.
Fisher, p8-9. Mantin
p32-33.
(or information sheet)
Marshall Plan
(1/2 lessons)
Marshall aid,
economic
recovery.
Use of economic
aid to stop spread
of communism.
Analysis of stats,
graphs, cartoons.
Comparison of
USA/USSR views.
Fisher, p8-9. Mantin,
p30-31.
Mills, p199
(or information sheet)
*past GCSE question
Blockade, airlift,
Attempt to starve
division of Berlin. Berliners into
communist
sphere. Western
response.
Source analysis.
Comparison of
views.
Decision making –
Western options.
Video – ‘Cold War
Confrontation’
Mills, p200-1.
Fisher p11. R&H p148
*Sources question
Development of
Conflict
Berlin Blockade
(2 lessons)
NATO and the
Warsaw Pact
(1 lesson)
NATO, pact,
alliance.
Opposing
alliances,
Fisher, p12-13
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Competition
between USA &
USSR.
Civilian response.
Chronology.
Comparison.
Contemporary
views.
Fisher, p20-21
Mills, p209
Batista, Bay of
Pigs, Kennedy,
Kruschev,
missiles, U-2,
Cuba, Castro,
quarantine.
Could Cold War
turn to Hot War?
Roles of K & K.
Results of crisistest ban, hot line.
Simulation –
decision making.
Map interpret.
Comparison of
views.
Fisher, p34-37, (also
38-39)
Mills, p212-213.
R&H, p178-181.
Mantin, p56-57
*Sources question
French
involvement,
WW2, Vietminh,
Independence
1945, Role of Ho
Chi Minh, Dien
Bien Phu
Long term causes.
French
colonialism in
Indo-China.
Comparing,
interpreting &
evaluating source
materials.
Video – ‘French in
Vietnam’
Information booklet.
Fisher, p46. R&H,
p182-183
Guerilla Warfare
(4 lessons)
Domino theory,
Guerilla,
Vietcong, Role of
Kennedy,
Johnson.
Rolling thunder,
Escalation, Tet,
Agent Orange,
defoliation,
napalm, My Lai.
Guerilla v. Open
warfare.
Effectiveness of
tactics used.
Civilian
experience of
war. US protest
movement.
Comparison of
tactics.
Source analysis.
Interpretation of
views.
Video – ‘Vietnam’
Simulation – ‘Guerilla’
(Fisher, p48) Mils,
p216-7. R&H, p183-5
Mantin, p36-37, 108109.
Information booklet.
End of the War
(1 lesson)
Nixon, Kissinger,
Paris conference,
ceasefire, fall of
Saigon.
Vietnamisation,
US withdrawal,
end of Truman
Doctrine,
Use of sources.
Cartoon interp.
Information booklet.
Nuclear Arms Race
Build up of nuclear
weapons.
(1 lesson)
Cuban Missile Crisis
(2 lessons)
Guerilla Warfare
in Vietnam
Origins of Conflict
(4 lessons)
End of topic test –
Past GCSE question
Cuba Crisis
1 lesson
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
Nuclear weapons,
arms race, Hbomb, Polaris,
ICBM, CND
*GCSE coursework.
Crisis, quarantine, Comparing
Map analysis.
Kennedy,
opposing views of Comparing views.
Kruschev.
events & results.
GERMANY 1918-39
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Introduction
Timeline – Germany
1918-34
(1 lesson)
Political Parties
(1 lesson)
Weimar Republic
Foundation of the
Republic.
(1/2 lessons)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Placing events in
chronological
order.
Timeline outline.
OHP of events.
Armistice, Nazi,
Putsch, SA,
hyper-inflation,
depression,
election,
Chancellor,
Fuhrer,
Reichstag, etc.
Chronology.
Communist,
Fascist, Social
Democrat,
Nationalist, etc.
Differences in
Comparison of
political beliefs of beliefs.
parties in the
1920’s.
OHP available.
Republic,
abdication,
President,
Reichstag,
Chancellor,
Weimar,
November
criminals.
Replacement of
Kaiser with an
elected Republic.
Mills, p42-43. R&H,
p68-69
Brooman (blue), p6-7
Interpretation of
contemporary
views.
Source analysis.
Treaty of Versailles
(see under WW1)
Problems of the new
Republic.
(
lessons)
Spartacists, Kapp,
Invasion of Ruhr,
hyperinflation,
Munich Putsch.
Opposition to
democracy.
Stresemann Era
(1 lesson)
Dawes Plan,
Young Plan,
recovery.
Foreign aid &
trade helps
economy.
Interpretation of
statistics.
Mills, p46-47.
Brooman, p17, 24.
World Depression
(1 lesson)
Depression
Causes and
results of
collapse.
Interpretation of
graphs.
Analysis of
economic collapse.
Mills, p50.
Brooman, p26-28
SUBJECT CONTENT
KNOWLEDGE/
KEY IDEAS /
Mills, p42-45. R&H,
p68-70.
Brooman, p7-8, 14-17,
20-21.
Video ‘Make Germany
Pay’
*Worksheet –
‘Hyperinflation’
SKILLS/
RESOURCES &
(& Approx. time)
Hitler and the Nazi
Party
Hitler’s early life
(1 lesson)
TERMINOLOGY
CONCEPTS
INTERPRETATIONS
*Assessment opportunities
WW1 experience,
Nazi Party,
Swastika, SA
(brownshirts)
Biography,
Chronology.
Placing events in
chronological
order.
Lee, p10-11.
Brooman (blue), p1819.
Developments of
Nazi Party
(2 lessons)
Mein Kampf,
Nationalist,
Socialist,
Propaganda.
Nazi philosophy
& organisation.
Analysis of ideas.
Empathy
Mills, p48-51
OHP available
Brooman, p25
Hitler’s rise to
power, 1929-33.
(2 lessons)
Depression,
elections,
Reichstag fire.
World depression
led to support for
extremists.
Reasons for Nazi
popularity.
Statistical
interpretation.
Source analysis.
Mills, p50-55.
Brooman (blue), p2829
Brooman (orange), p4.
*Worksheet – ‘Rise to
Power’
Dictatorship
Established.
(2 lessons)
Enabling Law,
Night of Long
Knives, Death of
Hindenburg,
‘Fuhrer’
Elimination of
opponents.
Establishing
dictatorship.
Comparison of
evidence.
Cartoon analysis.
Mills, p52. Brooman
(orange), p5.
*Worksheet – ‘Night of
Long Knives’
Establishment of
police state & its
effects.
Treatment of
minority groups.
‘Crrystal Night’.
Use of
propaganda, 1936
Olympics, role of
boys/girls. Selfsufficiency,
Public works,
conscription,
Strength through
joy.
Research project.
(Select, organise &
deploy sources of
information).
Pupil information
booklet.
Textbooks – Lee –
Nazi Germany, Brooman – Nazi
Germany
Video – ‘Hitler’s
Germany – 1933-36’
Cassettes/slides (esp.
slides 12-27)
“Life under Nazi
Rule”.
*GCSE and NPRA
assessment
Aspects of Nazi
Rule, 1934-39
(
lessons)
One party state,
law & order –
*GCSE coursework, SA, SS, Gestapo.
& NPRA assessment. Persecution,
Nuremburg Laws,
‘unter-menschen’.
Propaganda,
education, Hitler
Youth.
Economic policy,
rearmament.
Role of Himmler,
Goebbels,
Goering,
Heydrich, etc.
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
Hitler & Nazis –
Support &
Opposition
(3 lessons)
*GCSE coursework
& NPRA assessment.
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Extent of support
& opposition to
Hitler, (with
reasons)
Empathetic
understanding.
Interpretation of
contemporary
sources.
Pupil booklet.
Mills, p58-59
Reasons for Nazi
success in
elections.
Interpretation of
graphs & sources.
*GCSE and NPRA
assessment
End of Unit Test –
Past GCSE question
Depression and Rise
of Nazis.
(1 lesson)
Unemployment,
elections,
Reichstag, Nazi
Party.
WORLD WAR ONE
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Introducion
War Plans
(2 lessons)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Map interpret.
Brooman (red) P1-3.
Outline maps & OHPs
R&H p24.
Schlieffen Plan,
Plan 17, BEF,
Neutrality.
War on 2 fronts
Why did the
Schlieffen Plan
fail?
Battle of Marne
(1 lesson)
Nature of battle.
German retreat.
Race to ports.
Consequences of
Schl. plan
failure.
Trenches
(1 lesson)
Trench, parapet,
Defence against
fire step, sandbag, modern weapons.
barbed wire, etc.
Empathy
OHP diagram.
R&H p25.
Link to previous
learning in Year 8
with Trench
Warfare Project
Conditions in the
trenches.
Weaponry used –
artillery, rifles,
gas, machine
guns, tanks, etc.
Nature of battles
– attrition, overthe-top.
Changing nature
of warfare.
Physical and
psychological
effects.
Changing
attitudes to war.
Research proj.
Use of sources
(worksheet on
conditions)
Empathy –
(letter home)
Organisation &
communication.
Conclusions.
Pupil booklet.
Pupil’s own research.
Conditions – ICT
research
Weapons- slides
(Liddle)
WW1 and Somme
DVDs
(Could use WW1
poetry).
Eastern Front
Gallipoli
Desert War
Extent of war
Mapwork
R&H p28-31
Map outline available
(based on Howarth,
P26)
Trench Warfare
Other Fronts
War on other fronts
(1 lesson)
Brooman p2,3
Video “Stalemate”
Brooman, P10-11, 1617, 32-33.
War at sea & in the
air.
(2 lessons)
Dreadnaughts,
Jutland, blockade,
U-boats, convoy,
dog-fight, ace,
reconnaissance,
etc.
Effectiveness of
RN & blockade
Role of U boats.
Limited use of
aircraft.
Evaluation of
importance of war
at sea & in the air.
Worksheet available
based on R&H or
Brooman, p22-23.
Home Front
(2 lessons)
Home Front,
recruitment,
conscription,
conscientious
objector, DORA,
Zeppelins, etc.
Changing role of
women.
Volunteers &
conscripts.
Use of primary
sources.
Interpretation of
cartoons, posters,
etc.
Bates, P20-21, 32-33.
R&H, P36-39
Brooman, P24-25
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
End of the war
(2 lessons)
Versailles Treaty
(3 lessons)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
Blockade,
Lusitania,
USA entry,
Ludendorff
attack,
Armistice
Russian
revolution and its
effects.
Why the allies
won.
Consequences –
(cost of the war)
deaths, injuries,
financial costs,
psychological
cost.
Analysis of sources. R&H, p40-43.
Assessing
Brooman, p36-37.
significance of
WW1.
Treaty,
reparations, War
Guilt clause,
demilitarised
zone, reduction of
armed forces,
boundaries – eg
Alsace-Lorraine,
Polish corridor.
How ‘fair’ was
the treaty?
Decision making.
Simulation – redrawing
the treaty!
Interpretation of
contemporary
views.
Mills, p27-28.
(outline maps
available)
Brooman, p10-11.
R&H, p44-47.
(Versailles booklet –
very detailed)
*Sources pamphlet
Sources analysis
End of topic test
(45 minutes exam paper)
AQA based
1. WW1 fighting – Trench Warfare
2. WW1 – Home Front
3. Why did the war become unpopular? *extended writing)
WORLD WAR TWO
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Introduction
(Timeline
1 lesson)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Battle of Britain,
Blitz, Barbarossa,
Pearl Harbor,
Stalingrad, Dday,
Hiroshima,etc.
Chronology
Placing events in
chronological.
OHP & outline
available.
Lee, p54-55
Blitzreig
(1 lesson)
Blitzkreig,
Panzers, Stuka
dive-bombers,
weaponry, etc.
Changing nature
of warfare.
Comparison of
sources & events.
1914 v. 1940
OHP diagram.
Kelly, p16-17
German attacks
(2 lessons)
Poland, phoney
war, Norway,
France, Dunkirk.
Chronology.
Effectiveness of
Blitzkreig.
Battle of Britain
(2 lessons)
RAF, Luftwaffe,
Spitfire,
Hurricane,
Messerschmitt,
radar, etc.
Britain alone, role
of Churchill.
Enquiry.
Empathetic
understanding.
Video- Britain Alone,
R&H, p108-9, with
worksheet.
Kelly p13. Macdonald,
p12-13.
Mills, p89 (diagram).
The Blitz
(1 lesson)
Blitz, intensive
bombing.
Effects on civilian Use of sources.
morale.
Kelly, p14-15, 46-47
R&H, p109
*Coventry – worksheet.
Allied bombing
(1 lesson)
Saturation
bombing
Purpose of allied
bombing.
Use of sources –
Esp. photographs.
Kelly, p46-47
Battle of the Atlantic
(1 lesson)
Convoys, U-boats
Wolf-pack, sonar,
depth charge,
liberty ships.
Need to maintain
supplies for the
war effort.
Blockade.
Tactical
understanding.
Analysis of source
& events.
Kelly, p35-35. R&H,
p126-127.
Macdonald, p18-19
(OHP & outlines
available)
German attack on
Russia
(1 lesson)
Barbarossa
End of NaziSoviet pact.
Hitler’s motives.
Use of sources –
Russian winter.
R&H, p110-113. (OHP
& w/sheet)
Kelly, p22-25 (OHP
available)
*Evidence -Barbarossa
Changing nature
OHP map and outlines.
Kelly, p10-12. Lee,
p54.
R&H, p103-7. Mantin,
p74-75.
*Dunkirk (sources)
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Civilian experience
of war
Europe under the
Nazis
(2 lessons)
Home Front
Britain
(2 lessons) (NB.
Link to Y9 topic)
Japanese War
Pearl Harbor
(1 lesson)
Hiroshima &
Nagasaki
(2 lessons)
Defeat of Germany
D-Day
(2 lessons)
German Defeat
(1 lesson)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Prisoners, slaves,
labour camps, SS,
final solution,
Auschwitz,
resistance,
refugees.
Treatment of
civilians by Nazis
Master race &
inferior races.
Nazi opponents.
Empathy.
Analysis of events,
attitudes &
experiences.
Source evaluation.
Kelly, p38-43. R&H,
p119-121. Lee, p58-61
Brooman (green) p2629
*Auschwitz-worksheet
Blackout,
evacuation,
rationing, gas
masks,
conscription,
shelters, Land
Army, ARP,
Home Guard,
propaganda.
Effects of WW2
Analysis of primary
on civilians.
sources.
Defence measures Empathy.
Role of women.
Information booklet of
sources.
MacDonald, p14-15,
Kelly, p44-45.
*Past question –
‘posters’
Pacific War,
island hopping,
kamikaze pilots.
Causation – ‘Why Motivation
did Japan attack
the USA?’
Video- ‘Pearl Harbor to
Hiroshima’
Kelly, p26-27, 32-33
R&H, p114-7.
MacDonald, P24-25.
Manhattan
project, atom
bomb, radiation.
Consequences of
use of atom
bomb,
Decision making
– why was the
atom bomb used?
Long-term social
& political results
Kelly, p57-61. R&H,
p134-137.
MacDonald, p46-47.
*Hiroshima-worksheet.
Kelly, p60-61
D-Day,
Normandy,
Operation
Overlord,
Mulberry
harbours,
PLUTO, Maquis.
Opening of
second front –
significance of
events.
MacDonald, p38-39
Kelly, p48-49
Information sheet
(OHP questions)
Video – ‘Road to
Berlin’
Bombing raids,
V! & V2, attempt
to kill Hitler,
Russain advance,
Berlin, Hitler’s
suicide.
Defeat of
Germany.
Kelly, p48-51, (OHP
questions)
Brooman (orange),
p30-31
Mills, p88-89.
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
Source analysis.
Interpretation of
events & attitudes
Comparison of
bombing effects.
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
End of topic test
Home Front
(1 lesson)
U-boats, shortages, rationing, dig for victory, propaganda.
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Introduction
Overview
(1 lesson)
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Hitler’s Foreign
Policy.
Causation – steps
to war.
Constructing
timeline.
Chronology.
OHP – Causes of WW2
Mills, p72.
Rearmament
Rearmament,
Luftwaite,
conscripts, Stresa
Front.
Rebuilding armed
forces-breaking
Versailles treaty.
Comparison.
Statistical
Interpretation.
Mills, p74-75, (p76)
(or OHP notes)
Saar and Rhineland.
(1 lesson)
Plebiscite,
remilitarisation.
Success of
Hitler’s
aggressive
policies.
Use of sources.
Cartoon interp.
Mills, p78. Brooman
(orange), P23.
*Rhineland cartoon &
questions. (Mantin,
P68).
Hitler’s Allies
(1 lesson)
Rome-Berlin
Axix, Spanish
Civil War,
Guernica.
Friendship with
Mussolini &
Franco.
Decision making –
use of evidence –
Guernica.
Mills, p80-81.
(or OHP notes)
Saar, Rhineland,
Austria,
Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia,
Polish corridor.
Lebensraum –
threats to
neighbouring
countries.
Map analysis.
Kelly, p5.
(OHP & map outlines
available)
Takeover of Austria
(1 lesson)
“Anschluss”,
Lebensraum.
Union of Austria
with Germany.
Understanding
Hitler’s motives.
Mills, p82-83. Lee, p49
Brooman (green), p23.
(OHP available)
Demands for
Sudetenland.
Sudetenland,
appeasement,
Munich
agreement,
Chamberlain,
Daladier, Hitler,
Mussolini.
Appeasement in
action.
Empathy.
Understanding
motives of
Chamberlain.
Comparison of
sources.
Mills, p38-85. Lee p50
Brooman (green) p23,
Mantin, p70-71
Video – ‘Why
Appeasement?’
(OHP available)
*Munich Crisis – past
question.
Arguments in
favour/against.
Use of sources.
OHP available.
Mills, p83, 85
Territorial Gains
Overview
(1 lesson)
Why Appeasement?
(1 lesson)
SUBJECT CONTENT
(& Approx. time)
Steps to war
Role of USSR
(2 lessons)
Invasion of Poland
(1 lesson)
Was Hitler to blame
for WW2?
(1 lesson)
End of topic test
Causes WW2
(1 lesson
KNOWLEDGE/
TERMINOLOGY
KEY IDEAS /
CONCEPTS
SKILLS/
INTERPRETATIONS
RESOURCES &
*Assessment opportunities
Lack of trust –
USSR v
GB/France,
USSR v Germany
Nazi-Soviet Pact
(non-aggression).
Political
difference
democracy/
fascism/
communism
Hitler avoiding a
two-front war.
Comparison of
sources.
Kelly, p8-9
Motivation – use of
sources – incl.
cartoons.
Mills, p86, R&H, p102
Mantin, p72
* Cartoon question.
Invasion.
Polish corridor.
Beginning of
WW2.
Source analysis.
R&H, p103. (or OHP
notes)
*Cartoon question.
Causation.
Source analysis.
Kelly, p6-7
Terminology
Hitler’s aims,
Map interpret
motives, methods.