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 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

History –3rd Year Page 1  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 bibliograph y:  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.

History –3rd Year Page 2  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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