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History 5-Year Curriculum History 5-Year Curriculum Map Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Battle of 1066 How William changed England How did power change throughout me- How did power change throughout Why did Henry break with Rome? How did the Tudor's change religion in dieval England? medieval England? England? What was the situation once Edward Why did William build castles? Why was the church so powerful? Why did the barons rebel? How did Henry VII become king? Why did Edward VI become king? died in 10600? What was the Doomesday book? What problems did Henry II face? What was the magna carta? What problems was Henry facing What happened the Lady Jane Grey? Year 7 Who were the claimants? How did the feudal system change Why did Henry and Thomas Beckett How did power change from the monar- when he became king? Does Mary deserve her bloody reputa- What happened at Stamford Bridge? England? fall out? chy? Why did Henry VIII ask for a divorce? tion? How did the black death effect the power of Why was Elzabeth's reign known as the How was the battle of Hastings won? Why wasThomas Becket murdered? the church and monarchy? Why was creating the CoE significant? golden age? Empire and trade Tran-Atlantic Slave trade WWI WWI WWII WWII Why did England develop an empire? How did the slave trade work? Why was there tension in 1914? What were trenches? What was the impact of the treaty of Ver- What were the significant battles of WWII in How did colonialism work? What areas did Europeans capture Why was Franz Ferdinand assassinat- How did the trench system work? sailles? Europe? Year 8 Where did England colonise? slaves from and how ed? What was life like on the Western How did Hitler come to power? What were the significant battles in the pacif- What was it like for a slave? Why did a world war start? front? What policies did Hitler introduce that ef- ic and north Africa? Why did slavery end? fected the population? What was the holocaust? Elizabeth's court and Parliament Life in Elizabethan times Troubles at home and abroad The historic environment of Elizabe- Conquered and conquerors Looking West than England Elizabeth I and her court: background and char- A ‘Golden Age’: living standards and fashions; Religious matters: the question of religion, Eng- Students will be examined on a specific Invasion: Vikings and Anglo-Saxons; reasons for Sugar and the Caribbean: piracy and plunder; the acter of Elizabeth I; court life, including patron- growing prosperity and the rise of the gentry; the lish Catholicism and Protestantism; the Northern site in depth. This site will be as specified Viking invasions; creation of the Danelaw; Alfred development of the slave trade, including John age; key ministers. Elizabethan theatre and its achievements; atti- Rebellion; Elizabeth's excommunication; the and will be changed annually. The site will and Wessex; King Cnut, Emma of Normandy Hawkins; settlements in Barbados and West In- The difficulties of a female ruler: relations with tudes to the theatre. missionaries; Catholic plots and the threat to the relate to the content of the rest of this and the North Sea Empire. dies; the economic and social impact of the slave Parliament; the problem of marriage and the The poor: reasons for the increase in poverty; Elizabethan settlement; the nature and ideas of A Norman Kingdom and ‘Angevin’ Empire: rela- trade on Britain. succession; the strength of Elizabeth’s authority attitudes and responses to poverty; the reasons the Puritans and Puritanism; Elizabeth and her depth study. It is intended that study of tionship between England and France; Henry II; Colonisation in North America: causes and conse- Year 9 at the end of her reign, including Essex’s rebel- for government action and the seriousness of government's responses and policies towards different historic environments will enrich invasion of Ireland; losses under King John. quences of British colonisation; Raleigh; Jame- lion in 1601. the problem. religious matters. students’ understanding of Elizabethan The birth of English identity: the Hundred Years’ stown; contact and relations with indigenous peo- English sailors: Hawkins and Drake; circumnavi- Mary Queen of Scots: background; Elizabeth England. War and its impact for England’s future develop- ples; commodities; Pilgrim Fathers; indentured gation 1577–1580, voyages and trade; the role and Parliament’s treatment of Mary; the chal- ment. servants; the War of Independence, loss of Ameri- of Raleigh. lenge posed by Mary; plots; execution and its can colonies. impact. Migrants to and from Britain: Huguenot migration; Conflict with Spain: reasons; events; naval war- Highland clearances; the Ulster plantations. fare, including tactics and technology; the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Expansion and empire Britain in the 21st Century America and the boom Great depression and the new deal Post War America Origins of the cold war Expansion in India: causes and impact The end of Empire: the impact of the The ‘Boom’: benefits, advertising and American society during the Depres- Post-war American society and econo- The end of the Second World War: Yalta of British control; East India Company; First and Second World Wars; the im- the consumer society; hire purchase; sion: unemployment; farmers; busi- my: consumerism and the causes of and Potsdam Conferences; the division Robert Clive; Warren Hastings; Indian pact of Suez; nationalism and inde- mass production, including Ford and nessmen; Hoover’s responses and prosperity; the American Dream; of Germany; contrasting attitudes and Rebellion (1857); the social, political, pendence in India and Africa, including the motor industry; inequalities of unpopularity; Roosevelt's election as McCarthyism; popular culture, includ- ideologies of the USA and the USSR, cultural and economic impact of em- the role of Gandhi, Nkrumrah and Ken- wealth; Republican government poli- president. ing Rock and Roll and television. including the aims of Stalin, Churchill, pire on Britain and India. yatta. cies; stock market boom. The effectiveness of the New Deal on Racial tension and developments in Roosevelt, Attlee and Truman; effect of Expansion in Africa: causes and im- The legacy of Empire: ‘Windrush’ and Social and cultural developments: en- different groups in society: successes the Civil Rights campaigns in the the dropping of the atom bomb on post- pact of British involvement; trade and the Caribbean migrants; the work of tertainment, including cinema and jazz; and limitations including opposition 1950s and 1960s: Segregation laws; war superpower relations. Year 10 missionary activity; South Africa; Claudia Jones in the UK; migration the position of women in society, in- towards the New Deal from Supreme Martin Luther King and peaceful pro- The Iron Curtain and the evolution of Egypt; the Scramble for Africa; Cecil from Asia and Africa, including the role cluding flappers. Court, Republicans and Radical politi- tests; Malcolm X and the Black Power East-West rivalry: Soviet expansion in Rhodes; the Boer War (1899–1902); of Amin in Uganda; the Common- Divided society: organised crime, pro- cians; Roosevelt's contribution as Movement; Civil Rights Acts of 1964 East Europe; US policies; the Truman imperial propaganda. wealth; the Falklands War. hibition and their impact on society; the president; popular culture. and 1968. Doctrine and Marshall Plan, their pur- causes of racial tension, the experi- pose and Stalin’s reaction; Cominform; ences of immigrants and the impact of Comecon; Yugoslavia; the Berlin Block- immigration; the Ku Klux Klan; the Red ade and Airlift. Scare and the significance of the Sac- co and Vanzetti case. Development of the cold war Transformation of the cold war Revision Revision Exams The significance of events in Asia for Berlin Wall: reasons for its construction Paper 2 revision Paper 1 revision Exams superpower relations: USSR's support and Kennedy’s response. for Mao Tse-tung and Communist rev- Tensions over Cuba: Castro’s revolu- olution in China, and the military cam- tion, the Bay of Pigs and the missile paigns waged by North Korea against crisis: the roles of Castro, Khrushchev, the UN and by the Vietcong against Kennedy; fears of the USA and reac- France and the USA. tion to missiles on Cuba; dangers and Military rivalries: the arms race; mem- results of crisis. bership and purposes of NATO and Czechoslovakia: Dubeck and the Pra- Year 11 the Warsaw Pact; the space race, in- gue Spring movement; USSR’s re- cluding Sputnik, ICBMs, Polaris, Gaga- sponse to the reforms; the effects the rin, Apollo. Prague Spring had on East-West rela- The ‘Thaw’: Hungary, the protest tions, including the Warsaw Pact; the movement and the reforms of Nagy; Brezhnev Doctrine. Soviet fears, how they reacted and the Easing of tension: sources of tension, effects on the Cold War; the U2 Crisis including the Soviets' record on human and its effects on the Paris Peace rights; the reasons for Détente and for Summit and the peace process. SALT 1; the part played by key individ- uals Brezhnev and Nixon. .
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