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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:
Understanding The Modern World
Democracy and Dictatorship – Germany
Wider World Study -
Conflict and tension
between East and West, 1945–1972
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)
East and West 1945-49
– The Origins of
the Cold War
East and West
– The Development of the
Cold War
East and West –
Transformation of the
Cold War
Shaping The Nation
Britain: Power and the People
: c1170 to the present
day with British depth studies
Specified content:
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.
Equality and Rights –
votes for Women, The General
Strike and the Brixton Riots.
Part two:
Elizabethan England –
court and parliament,
life in Elizabethan times, troubles at home and abroad
and a study of an historic environment.