| S6 4hr 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 |
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Coercion, persuasion and consent: how popular
were the Nazis? |
Complete
this table over the next three 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. |
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 page
4 form this
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE. |
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| Why did
the League of Nations fail in Abyssinia? |
Complete questions from this
extract taken from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE.
Video - Edited extract from
the People's Century series on the League of Nations. |
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| 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? |
Abyssinia
role-play activity
Complete this
table to explain why the British appeased Hitler in the
1930s.
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Videos of previous role-plays
Print friendly versions:
Activity outline,
Minister briefing notes,
Prime Minister notes. and
Prime Minister questions
Video - The
Nazis a warning from history - causes of World War II.
Video - BBC 20th
Century History File - Why appeasement?
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| How have
historians debated the causes of World War II? |
The three main
theories that explain WWII:
PowerPoint
1. Inevitable? -
extract from Culpin and Henig.
2. Hitler's war? -
extract from Darby
3. Guilty Men? -
extract from Darby
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Short essays on the
causes of WWII:
Graham Darby,
Andrew Crozier and
John Charmley. Extra materials:
Darby on
British and French foreign policy as a cause of war and why
they went to war for
Poland in 1939. McDonough on why war broke out in
Asia.
Video - The
Nazis a warning from history - causes of World War II.
Video - BBC 20th
Century History File - Why appeasement? |
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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.
Old documentary
video using
archive film of the Spanish Civil War and
Herbert
Kline's - Heart of Spain a rare contemporary documentary.
For the massacre at Nanjing see the
video John
Rabe - The Good Nazi of Nanking |
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Why was Germany successful in the initial stages
of World War II? |
Questions 1-5 from this
worksheet.
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
Chapter 10.1 (pp. 278-300)
Essay on the events of WWII in Europe.
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BBC on World War II.
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| What was
the kindertransport? |
Film seen the
lesson about the rescue mission of Nicholas Winton
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Winton now 104 years old (May 2013)
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Extermination, collaboration and resistance: what happened to
the people during World War II? |
Essay on the events of WWII in Europe.
Video -
Liquidation of the Jewish Ghetto in Kraków as seen by Spielberg.
Video - Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard)
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In 1985, the year
Shoah was released, Roger Ebert described it as "an
extraordinary film. It is not a documentary, not journalism,
not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness."
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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? |
Questions 6-10 from this
worksheet.
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 |
Timeline
of essential events in Unit 4 and
Quiz |
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