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The History Department
Key Stage 4 - Years 10 & 11
The GCSE History course is OCR Modern World History. In Years 10, two of the four content areas covered– International Relations 1919-39 and Germany 1919-45. Assessment is one exam at the end of Year 10, a controlled assessment in the autumn term of Year 11 and a second exam at the end of Year 11.
Year 10
International Relations
- Were the peace treaties of 1919-23 fair?
- What were the motives and aims of the Big Three at Versailles?
- Why did all the victors not get what they wanted?
- What was the immediate impact of the peace treaty on Germany up to 1923?
- Could the treaties be justified at the time?
- To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
- How successful was the League of Nations in the 1920s?
- How far did the weaknesses of the League’s organisation make failure inevitable?
- How far did the Depression make the work of the League more difficult?
- Why did the League fail over Abyssinia and Manchuria?
- Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
- What were the long term consequences of the peace treaties of 1919-23?
- What were the consequences of the failures of the League in the 1930s?
- How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?
- Was the policy of appeasement justified?
- How important was the Nazi-Soviet pact?
- Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in September 1939?
Germany 1919-45
- Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
- How did Germany emerge from defeat in the First World War?
- What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the Republic?
- To what extent did the Republic recover after 1923?
- What were the achievements of the Weimar period?
- Why was Hitler able to dominate Germany by 1934?
- What did the Nazi Party stand for in the 1920s?
- Why did the Nazis have little success before 1930?
- Why was Hitler able to become Chancellor by 1933?
- How did Hitler consolidate his power 1933-34?
- How effectively did the Nazis control Germany 1933-45?
- How much opposition was there to the Nazi regime?
- How effectively did the Nazis deal with their political opponents?
- How did the Nazis use culture and the mass media to control the people?
- Why did the Nazis persecute many groups in German society?
- What was it like to live in Nazi Germany?
- How did young people react to the Nazi regime?
- How successful were Nazi policies towards women and the family?
- Did most people in Germany benefit from Nazi rule?
- How did the coming of war change life in Germany?
Year 11
The USA – Boom, Bust and Recovery
- How far did the US economy boom in the 1920s?
- On what factors was the economic boom based?
- Why did some industries prosper while some did not?
- Why did agriculture not share in the prosperity?
- Did all Americans benefit from the boom?
- What were the causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash?
- How far was speculation responsible for the Wall Street Crash?
- What impact did the crash have on the economy?
- What were the social consequences of the Crash?
- Why did Roosevelt win the election of 1932?
- How successful was the New Deal?
- What was the New Deal as introduced in 1933?
- How far did the character of the New Deal change after 1933?
- Why did the New Deal encounter opposition?
- Why did unemployment persist despite the New Deal?
- Did the fact that the New Deal did not solve unemployment mean that it was a failure?
How was British Society changed, 1906-18?
- Liberal Reforms
- Why did the Liberal government introduce reforms to help the young, old and unemployed?
- How effective were these reforms?
- Votes for Women
- What were the arguments for and against female suffrage?
- How effective were the activities of the suffragists and the suffragettes?
- Why were some women given the vote in 1918?
- The Home Front 1914-18
- How did women contribute to the war effort?
- How were civilians affected by the war?
- How effective was government propaganda during the war?
- Why were some women given the vote in 1918?
- What was the attitude of the British people at the end of the War towards Germany and the Paris Peace Conference?
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