Download HISTORY SYLLABUS - 2016 Teacher: Chris Toti Year: 4th Year

HISTORY SYLLABUS - 2016
Teacher: Chris Toti
Year: 4th Year
IGCSE topic 2017
v How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
General Aims:
• To promote the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of individuals, people and
societies in the past
• To ensure that learners’ knowledge is rooted in an understanding of the nature and use
of historical evidence
• To promote an understanding of key historical concepts: cause and consequence,
change and continuity, and similarity and difference
• To encourage the development of Historical Skills, including investigation, analysis,
evaluation and communication skills.
• To encourage the development of Digital Skills
Unit 1: Second World War:
Ø Revision: Causes
Ø General characteristics of the War.
Unit 2: Who was to blame for the Cold War? i
Ø Why did the USA–USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945?
• The Yalta Conference
• The Potsdam Conference
Ø The origins of the Cold War:
• the 1945 summit conferences and the breakdown of the USA–USSR alliance in
1945–46
• The Truman Doctrine
• Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe to 1948, and American reactions to it
• the occupation of Germany and the Berlin Blockade
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Unit 3: Who was to blame for the Cold War? ii
Ø How had the USSR gained control of Eastern Europe by 1948?
Ø How did the USA react to Soviet expansionism?
Ø Berlin Blockade: consequences
Ø Who was the more to blame for starting the Cold War: the USA or the USSR?
Unit 4: How effectively did the USA contain the spread of Communism?
Ø Events of the Cold War
Ø Case studies of:
• American reactions to the Cuban revolution, including the missile crisis and its
aftermath
• American involvement in the Vietnam War, e.g. reasons for involvement,
tactics/strategy,
• Reasons for withdrawal
•
American reactions to North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, involvement of
the UN, course of the war to 1953.
Unit 5: How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989? i
Ø The Red Empire in Eastern Europe
Ø Khrushchev
Ø Soviet power in Eastern Europe:
• resistance to Soviet power in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968)
• the Berlin Wall
• ‘Solidarity’ in Poland
Unit 6: How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989? ii
Ø Gorbachev and the collapse of Soviet control over Eastern Europe.
Ø How far was Gorbachev personally responsible for the collapse of Soviet control over
Eastern Europe?
Unit 7: Depth Studies
Ø USA
Ø Germany
Assessment Criteria:
In order to get a pass, students must comply with the following:
• Attendance:
Check percentage established by the school authorities.
• Assignments:
Students must bring material every class, comply with everything asked in class and
have complete notes and photocopies.
• Participation:
Students must pay attention and behave properly in class.
They should have a good use of oral and written language.
Students should have a good use of digital literacies.
• Formal tests (mini tests, quarterlies, etc.)
Students who could not come to sit for a test should bring the corresponding
written explanation from their parents
Compulsory bibliography:
• GCSE Modern World History – Ben Walsh
Suggested bibliography:
• GCSE Modern World History – Ben Walsh – Teacher’s Resource Book
• Cambridge History Programme – The Twentieth Century World – War, revolution and
technology – Sean Lang.
• I GCSE Twentieth Century History. International Relations since 1919 – Tony McAleavy.
• GCSE History – The Modern World * Tony Lancaster & Derek Peaple.
• The Twentieth Century World – Josh Brooman – Longman
• What is evidence? – Chris Hinton
• The Twentieth Century World – Josh Brooman – Longman
• Letts Study Guide GCSE – World History 1870 to the Present Day – Peter Lane and
Christopher Lane.
• Letts GCSE Questions and Answers – Modern World History.
• History Revision – GCSE Modern World History – Wayne Birks and Ben Walsh.