Students will study the causes of the First World War through a variety of different tasks. They will gain an understanding of the international relations during the early 1900’s and how this led to war. Students will be able to describe long and short term causes of an event. The unit will end with an extended piece of writing that discusses causation, importance and students can link reasons together.
German word for Emperor.
Counties being joined together
Alliance between Britain, France and Russia
Alliance of countries, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
The armed forces of a country
To extend a countries power using military force or other means.
The action of murdering someone.
Students will understand how war can develop. the tension between European powers. Understand the history of Britain and Europe.
Students use sources to investigate life in the trenches and the modern warfare used in WW1. Students look at everyday life in the trenches, whilst also looking at the new weapons and their impact on the war. A focus on the Battle of the Somme and General Haig.
Infection resulting in severe diarrhoea
To promote a political point of view.
A long or narrow ditch
Compulsory enlistment into the armed forces.
Studnets will understand the life experiences of a soldier and their own relations. The impact of war on the individual.
Students will firstly study why Germany lost WWI and then examine the aims and terms of the Treaty of Versailles in preparation for their termly assessment. This will be followed by in depth coverage of Hitler’s early years and his journey into politics culminating in the reasons why Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933.Students will then be given an insight into what life was like for women and children under the Nazis.
An agreement made to stop fighting, a truce
A formally concluded agreement between countries.
German word for Parliament
To be prejudiced against Jews
Far right political belief with a very powerful leader
A political belief where all property is controlled by the state, a far left wing belief.
A racially pure race, blond hair, blue eyes.
Students will understand the use of propaganda and how a society can be brainwashed through the rise of a Dictator.
Pupils will examine the main causes of World War Two starting with Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy after becoming Führer followed by Chamberlain’s appeasement policy. Topics studied after this, including the Battle of Britain and the Dunkirk evacuation, will give students an understanding of the perilous position Britain was in so early on in the conflict. Furthermore, the attack at Pearl Harbour and the Nazi defeat at the hands of the Russians will give students an understanding of how the tide of war changed culminating in Japan’s surrender after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hitler's book, My Struggle
The act to appease, pacify
To retreat and leave a place
German airforce
Students will understand the life of a soldier in WW2, how this led to developments and family experiences.
SStudents will examine the origins of anti-Semitism throughout Europe in the last 2000 years culminating in the implementation of the Nazis ‘Final Solution’ from 1942-45. They will study how Nazi persecution began and in the ways it became more severe after Kristallnacht in 1938. They will also examine the role of a number of individuals including Heydrich, Himmler and the resistance movements.
Being prejudice against the Jews
a simplified image or version of a person
A person who carries out a harmful or immoral act
Night of the Broken glass, when the treatment of the Jews in Nazi Germany becomes more violent.
Part of a city occupied by a minority group
Refusal to accept or comply with rules.
The move in Nazi Germany to exterminate the Jews.
To have an opinion that is not based on reason
Make an unjust distinction in the treatment of different people because of their race, sex or age
Understand the development of a genocide through propaganda. To understand the key stages of a genocide and the impact on a community.
Student will gain an understanding of the development of crime and punishment in Britain from the medieval period right through to the 21st century. They will be able to look at patterns of change and factors that contribute to change. They will look at change and continuity, trends and turning points across a theme. The key factors examined are: attitudes in society; individuals and institutions (Church and government); and science and technology. This unit is to prepare students for the Medicine through time course at GCSE.
Something done to someone which they do not like after they have broken the law or a rule.
An action which breaks the law.
When the government kills someone as punishment. Also known as the death penalty.
Using pain or physical harm as a punishment.
The crime of having a different religion to the official religion of the country.
The crime of acting against your country, e.g. telling secrets about your country to your country’s enemies.
Money paid to the victim of your crime to pay a debt
A person who has had a crime committed against them, e.g. a person who was robbed.
The organisation or people in charge of arresting criminals and stopping crime from happening, e.g. police.
A defined area, usually with its own church.
Students will be prepared for the GCSE course