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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.