KS4 CURRICULUM BOOKLET

History

Subject Leader: Mrs K Blake

Examination board: AQA

GCSE: History 9-1

Assessment requirements:

Paper one 1 hour and 45 minutes = 50% overall mark. Paper two 1 hour and 45 minutes – 50% overall mark.

Course Outline:

Paper One:

Paper Two:

Shaping The Nation Britain: Power and the People : c1170 to the present

Understanding The Modern World

Democracy and Dictatorship – Germany

day with British depth studies

Wider World Study - Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972

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Specified Content:

Germany and the Growth of Democracy From the Kaiser to Stresemann (1918-1923) Germany and the Depression – the depression and the Rise of the Nazis (1924- 1933) Life under the Nazis – how the Nazis ruled, changed and controlled Germany (1933-45)

Part One:

Challenging Authority and Feudalism – Magna Carta, Provisions of Oxford and the Peasant’s Revolt.

Challenging Royal Authority – Pilgrimage of the Grace, The English Civil War and The American Revolution

Reform and Reformers – The Great Reform Act, The Anti-Slavery Movement, Anti-Corn Law League and the Rise of the Trade Union.

East and West 1945-49 – The Origins of the Cold War

Equality and Rights – votes for Women, The General Strike and the Brixton Riots.

East and West – The Development of the Cold War

East and West – Transformation of the Cold War

Part two: Elizabethan England – court and parliament, life in Elizabethan times, troubles at home and abroad and a study of an historic environment.