THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT Year 10

Year 10 Autumn Half Term 1 Autumn Half Term 2 Spring Half Term 1

Unit Title The Impact of the Nazi The Origins and Development of The Transformation of the Dictatorship on the People of the Cold War Cold War Germany Key How were the Germans How did the Cold War develop How did the Cold War Question(s)? affected by Nazi control of after the Second World War? develop from 1960-1975? Germany? Threshold The Nazi government The Yalta Conference divides Khrushchev’s rise in the USSR Concepts controlled the population by Germany and Berlin into zones led to a ‘thawing’ in the Cold the use of propaganda and of occupation. The Potsdam War. However, events in terror. Conference demonstrates the Hungary and the capturing of conflicting views of the Allies Gary Powers and the U2 crisis The Nazi government over the future of Eastern led to a hardening of stimulated the economy Europe. relationships between the through rearmament and two powers. large-scale building projects Soviet expansion in the late like the autobahns. 1940s led to Churchill declaring The Berlin Wall was that an ‘Iron Curtain’ had fallen constructed in 1961. Nazi policy had a significant over Europe. This led to the President Kennedy framed impact on the role of women Truman Doctrine and the the Berlin Wall as a symbol of in German society and the development of the Marshall protest and freedom. indoctrination of the young Plan as a countermeasure from through the education system. the United States. Tensions in Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 The racial policies of the Nazi The Communist revolution in and the establishing of the government created the China led to American concerns ‘hotline’ between Washington climate whereby the Jews regarding a ‘domino effect’ in and Moscow. could be systematically Asia. This, and other factors, led persecuted, leading to the to the wars in Korea and ‘Détente’ is the term used to events of the Holocaust. Vietnam. describe the easing of tensions between the East The USA and Russia were and West in the 1970s. The engaged in an arms race SALT talks led agreements throughout the Cold War, regarding reducing exemplified in the ‘Space Race’ armaments on both sides. and the development of advanced nuclear weaponry. NATO and the Warsaw Pact were formed in this time. Link to Prior This unit draws on the This unit revisits the This unit revisits the students’ Learning knowledge regarding life in development of political understanding of how wars the Kaiser’s Germany and ideologies after the war. were fought in the first half of during the Weimar period in Students use their knowledge of the twentieth century to Russia’s withdrawal from the understand the changing [Publish Date] order to understand the Entente after World War One, nature of conflict after the motives behind Nazi policy. the policy of appeasement and development of nuclear the Nazi Soviet Pact to weapons. It also revisits the Holocaust understand tensions between and the inhumane treatment, East and West after the Second including genocide, inflicted World War. on minority groups as a result of Nazi policy from 1933-1945. Spring Half Term 2 Summer Half Term 1 Summer Half Term 2

Unit Title Conquered and the Looking West Expansion and Empire Conquerors Key How and why did England How and why did England create How and why did Britain Question(s)? become a nation? the American colonies? become an imperial power? Threshold The GCSE Migration, Empire The slave trade developed as a The British Empire initially Concepts and the Peoples unit covers means of increasing the sale of developed its influence in one thousand years of history cotton and tobacco. India through trade and the with aim of answering three work of the East India big questions: The Atlantic slave trade led to Company. the expansion of British ports 1) How did the British Empire and millions of pounds of profit Robert Clive and others led grow and decline? for Britain. military campaigns in India which saw the creation of the 2) What has motivated The religious persecution of the ‘East India Protectorate’. migration and how does this Puritans and Quakers during the Britain’s rule of India had a differ for each group and time English Civil war pushed these significant social, political, period? groups towards colonising the cultural and economic impact. Americas. Britain’s empire expanded in 3) How was English (and later Africa through trade and the British) identity formed? The first colonists to the ‘scramble for Africa’ Americas led to the stimulated by the imperial The Vikings invasion of depopulation of the Native rivalry in Europe. England was motivated by the Americans through disease and desire to gain a better quality persecution. Several significant people of land than that available in groups migrated to England Scandinavia. Britain’s loss of the American throughout the nineteenth War of Independence led to the century, including the Irish in Alfred the Great created an creation of Canadian self- response to the Potato education system, English government and the expansion Famine and the Jewish laws, built burghs and formed of the British Empire in the East, community in response to the a navy to defend England’s including India and Australia. pogroms in Russia. shores.

The Hundred Years’ War led to the formation of the concept of England as a nation and France as a European power. Link to Prior This unit revisits a number of This unit revisits the students’ This unit returns to Britain in Learning topics from Year 7 and 8. In knowledge regarding the the nineteenth century and particular, it charts the growth religious disputes in Britain from its emergence as a world of Britain as a medieval 1534 to the Civil War period to power. Previous units have power. It builds upon the contextualise why different focused on the social, political students’ understanding of groups migrated to and from and economic changes within Britain as a country, then a Britain. Britain and the country’s kingdom and later as part of relationship with other an empire. European powers. This This unit revisits the political provides context for motivations of British monarchs motivating factors which led in the Early Modern period to migration to and from regarding their empire. By Britain in this time. understanding the situation in Britain from Elizabethan times This unit also builds upon the onwards, the students gain a recurring theme of fuller understanding of imperialism and the positive motivations behind the and negative aspects of the colonisation of America and the Empire. British involvement in the slave trade. Knowledge AQA Germany 1890-1945 Democracy and Dictatorship and Part 3 – The experience of Germans Under the Nazi Party Sequencing The overarching question for this unit is how did life change under the Nazis? By studying the Rationale impact Nazi policy had on the economy, the lives of women, children and minority groups in Germany. This finishes with an understanding of the Nazi Party’s use of terror and the Final Solution.

AQA Conflict and Tension Between East and West 1945-1972 Part 1 and Part 2 – The origins and development of the Cold War This unit follows chronologically from the Germany unit and studies the impact the end of the Second World War had on international relations. The study covers the start of the Cold War, the tensions over post-war Europe, the proxy wars in Asia and the thaw in tensions during the Khrushchev era.

AQA Conflict and Tension Between East and West 1945-1972 Part 3 – The transformation of the Cold War This study charts the intensification of the cold war in the 1960s, with tensions reaching a high point in the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also analyses the extent to which Détente was reached by 1972.

AQA Migration, Empire and the Peoples Part 1 – Conquered and the Conquerors This study returns to Anglo-Saxon England to review the different migrant groups who moved to and contributed to life in England. It also studies the start of early medieval empires such as the Norman Kingdom and Angevin Empire.

AQA Migration, Empire and the Peoples Part 2 – Looking West This unit looks at the changes which took place as a result of new technology during the age of exploration. It covers the development, growth and eventual independence of the American colonies and the different migrant groups who moved to and from Britain during the Early Modern period.

AQA Migration, Empire and the Peoples Part 3 – Expansion and Empire This unit covers the rapid expansion of the British Empire in the nineteenth century by looking at the case studies of India and Africa.