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HISTORY - Syllabus - 2012
Teacher: Chris Toti
Year: 3rd Year
General Aims:
 To encourage students to view the study of history as a series of questions to be explored
and analysed
 To recycle contents the previous years
 To continue with the habit of reading, predicting, inferring from context and sources
 To relate, compare and contrast past events forming hypotheses
 To draw conclusions based on solid evidence as arguments
 To discuss and share opinions respecting turn taking
 To make students develop a critical thinking criteria about facts
 To demonstrate an understanding of change and continuity, cause and consequence, similarity
and difference
Unit 1
Germany
 The Peace Conference and the Treaties after WWI: how fair they were German Reaction
 The Weimar Republic: impact of the war over Germany
 Political extremism: Revolts and rebellions during the reorganisation: The Spartacist
uprising / The Freikorps and the Kapp Putsch
 Economic situation in the world
 Weaknesses in the Weimar system of government
 The Weimar Republic under Stresemann
Unit 2
Germany
 Hitler
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and the Nazis
The Twenty-five Point Programme
The Depression and the rise of the Nazis
Why did they succeed in the 1930 elections?
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor
1933-1945 Hitler’s Germany
Unit 3
Germany
 Hitler’s dictatorship
 The Night of the Long Knives
 The Nazi Police State
 Opposition
 The Culture of Nazi Germany
 The media
 The Olympic Games
 Propaganda
 Nazis and young people
 Nazis and women
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How much could Germany gain from Nazi rule?
The persecution of the Jews and other minorities
Anti-Semitism
Unit 4
League of Nations
 The Peace Conference and the Treaties after WWI
 Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the League of Nations: Why couldn’t he participate?
 Organisation of the League: Articles. Membership. Weaknesses
 How successful was the League in the 20s?
 Border disputes
 How did the League work for a better world?
 The League and disarmament in the 20s
Unit 5
League of Nations
 The League in the 30s: success and failure
 The League and the Great Depression
 Japan and China: Invasion of Manchuria
 Mussolini: Invasion of Abyssinia
Unit 6
Second World War: Causes
 Japan and China: Invasion of Manchuria
 Mussolini: Invasion of Abyssinia: How did the League act?
 German position: Hitler’s plans and actions
 Remilitarization of the Rhineland
 Policy of Appeasement
 The Spanish Civil War
 The Anti-Comintern Pact
 Anschluss with Austria
 The Sudetenland
 Invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia
 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Assessment Criteria:
In order to get a pass, students must comply with the following:
 Attendance: 80%
 Assignments: 100%
Students must bring material every class, comply with everything asked in class and
have a complete notebook with photocopies stuck in it.
 Participation: 80%
Students must pay attention and behave properly in class. They should have a good use
of oral and written language.
 Formal tests (mini tests, quarterlies, etc.): above 7 in all the tests
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.
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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.
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