| S6 2hr History |
Last
update -
05 May 2023 |
Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Unit 4 - 1935-1945 The Era of Total War |
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Key Questions |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
| How did
Hitler become a dictator? |
'Steps to
dictatorship'
diagram to be filled in.
Six factors that explain how Hitler was able to become a
dictator.
Walsh 158-9
GCSE Modern World History
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The end of democracy
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE. John D Clare -
8 steps to Hitler becoming dictator and interesting
summary of why Hitler turned on the SA.
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My
Reichstag Fire website which includes an
article that suggests the Nazis were responsible for
starting the fire. |
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Coercion, persuasion and consent: how popular
were the Nazis? |
Timeline of events to learn in this unit.
Complete
this table over the next lessons to show the way the
Nazi state controlled the people of Germany.
Complete this
diagram from Walsh on the Nazi police state.
Walsh 160-75
GCSE Modern World History
Hitler's domestic policy
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE.
PowerPoint on education and young people. |
Nazis: A Warning from History
Video shown
in class.
Summary notes to go with the video.
John
D Clare on how the Nazis
consolidated power and how their rule
affected ordinary Germans.
Fascinating
film biography
about Goebbels. Various
significant Nazi Propaganda
films. Isherwood's Berlin how
accurate? -
BBC Totalitarianism in the cinema - Orwell's
1984 and
The Wave |
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How were the Jews treated in Nazi Germany? |
Complete the questions about the Jews in Nazi Germany from this
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE. |
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| Why did
the League of Nations fail in Abyssinia? |
Video extract
from the People's Century series.
Complete questions from this
extract taken from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE. |
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Why were the 1930s a turning point in the history
of warfare? |
Activity on the nature of war in the interwar period.
PowerPoint on the era of total war |
Video -
Simon Schama on Picasso's Guernica.
Video -
Ken Loach's film about the Spanish Civil War, inspired by
Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.
For the massacre at Nanjing see the
video
John Rabe - The Good Nazi of Nanking. |
| How did
Hitler challenge the Treaty of Versailles? |
Complete this
table over the next two lessons on how Hitler challenged the
Treaty of Versailles. |
Video - The
Nazis a warning from history - causes of World War II. |
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Why did Britain appease Hitler? |
Complete this
table to explain why the British appeased Hitler in the
1930s. |
Video - The
Nazis a warning from history - causes of World War II.
Video - BBC 20th
Century History File - Why appeasement? |
| Why did
war break out in 1939? |
Essay planning writing
frame to complete on why war broke out in 1939. |
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In what ways was the Second World War a 'Total
War'? |
Documentary film
seen in class from the BBC People's Century series.
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B Test 4
26th May 2015 |
Timeline of essential events in Unit
4. Only facts on these
sheets will be covered in part one (factual recall) of the test.
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Quiz and advice |
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| What was
the kindertransport? |
Film seen
in the
lesson about the rescue mission of Nicholas Winton |
My international
project about Nicholas Winton
from 2008
Winton now 105 years old (May 2014) |
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Extermination, collaboration and resistance: what happened to
the people during World War II? |
Video - Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard)
Video
- Liquidation of the Jewish Ghetto in Kraków as seen by
Spielberg.
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BBC six-episode
documentary
presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews
with former inmates and guards and re-enactments |
Dramatic reconstruction of the 1942 Wannsee
Conference,
Conspiracy
In February 1943, 11-year-old Simon Gronowski
was sitting down for breakfast with his mother and sister in
their Brussels hiding place when two Gestapo agents burst in...
(BBC
article)
Resistance in Germany as seen in the following
films:
Sophie
Scholl,
Swing Kids and
Valkyrie.
The occupation of
France produced one of the greatest and controversial
documentaries of all time -
The Sorrow and the Pity.
On the Oradour massacre see this award winning
documentary. My
website on Oradour (En
or
Fr). The
2004 commemorations from French television.
Video on the Holocaust.
Notes from the film.
Video - Schindler's
List
Video - Blitz in UK
Video - Dan Snow 2013 series on the archaeology of World War
2. |
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Why was Germany defeated? |
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
Chapter 10.1 (pp. 278-300)
Essay on the events of WWII in Europe.
Video -
D-day as seen by Spielberg. |
Niall Ferguson
video
on World War II.
Video
on the war in Eastern Europe.
Notes from the film.
Video
on the defeat of Germany. Notes from the film |
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