GCSE History at Abbeyfield from 2010

GCSE History Spring 1968, Prague, Czechoslovakia

What will I learn?
About International Relations - what leads to conflicts between the countries, and how these conflicts are settled.
About one nation in depth - which will help you to understand how people in another time and place thought about the world.
About how historians use sources to find out about what happened.
About how to research, evaluate and make judgements from your own findings

Unit 1: Peace and War: International Relations 1943 - 1991
Unit 2: Germany 1918 - 1933
Unit 3: War & Transformation of British society, 1931 - 51
Unit 4: Representations of History Controlled Assess - Vietnam 1960-75
What units will I be studying?

Unit 1: Peace and War: International Relations 1943 -91
Part a: How did the Cold War develop? 1943 - 1956
Widening gulf between the Allies; the development of the ‘iron curtain’ and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the Allied response 1945-17.
The development of the Cold War, 1948 49 following the Berlin Airlift.
Hungary: the tightening of Soviet control.
Part b: Three Cold War crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia, c1957-69
Berlin: a divided city
Cuba: the world on the brink of nuclear war
Czechoslovakia: the Prague Spring
Part c: Why did the Cold War end? The invasion of Afghanistan (1979) to the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)
The collapse of détente - the effects of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
President Reagan and the US reaction
President Gorbachev and Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Unit 2: Germany 1918-1933
Part a: The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
The origins and early problems of the Weimar Republic, 1918-23
The recovery of the Republic under Stressman, 1924-29
Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-33
Part b: Adolf Hitler and the growth of the Nazi Party, 1918-33
The founding and early growth of the Nazi Party, 1919-23
The Munich Putsch and the lean years, 1923-29
Increased support and political developments 1929 - January 1933
Part c: The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-39
The removal of opposition to the Nazi’s 1933-4
The police state
Censorship and Propaganda
Part d: Nazi domestic policies, 1933-39
Nazi policies towards women and the young
Employment and the standard of living
The persecution of minorities

Unit 3: War & Transformation of British society, 1931-51
Part a: The impact of the Great Depression, 1931-39
The growth of unemployment and the government response
The experience of the unemployed
Case Study: the Jarrow Crusade
Part b: Britain alone
The BEF, Dunkirk and Churchill
The Battle of Britain
The Blitz
Part c: Britain at War
The role of government, food supplies and rationing
The changing role of women
D-Day and the defeat of Germany
Part d: Labour in power
Labour comes to power
Responding to Beveridge: the attack on ‘Want’
The NHS

Unit 4 : Representations of History Controlled Assessment
Vietnam 1960-75
The reasons for US involvement in Vietnam
The nature of the conflict and reasons for US defeat
The impact of the war on civilians and the military, in the USA and in North and South Vietnam
The growth of protest in the USA and the end of the conflict

How will I be examined? Exam Unit 3 – June of Year 11 Revision for Unit 3 and any re-sits required Year 11 Revision for re-takes of Unit 1 & 2 in January of Y11 Unit 3: War & Transformation of British society, 1931-51 Year 11 Internally submitted for June of year 11 Unit 4: Controlled Assessment - Vietnam Year 11 Exam Unit 1 & Exam Unit 2 – June of Year 10 Revision for Unit 1 Year 10 Unit 1: Peace and War: International Relations 1943 -91 Year 10 Unit 2: Germany 1918-1933 Year 10

Weighting Exam length Marks % Unit Controlled Assessment Internally marked 50 25 Unit 4: Controlled Assessment - Vietnam 1 hour 15 minutes Externally marked 50 25 Unit 3: War & Transformation of British society, 1931-51 1 hour 15 minutes Externally marked 50 25 Unit 2: Germany 1918-1933 1 hour 15 minutes Externally marked 60 25 Unit 1: Peace and War: International Relations 1943 -91

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GCSE History at Abbeyfield from 2010

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