S6 4hr History Last
update -
18 May 2023 Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English ,
French ,
German
Compulsory Core - Europe 2- Dictatorship and
democracy: Europe in the interwar years (1918-39) -
syllabus
Key Questions and learning and assessment
objectives.
Lessons
Additional materials and external links
What is
good government and what is the ideological spectrum?
Political Compass website
survey of your political position on the ideological
spectrum.
Left and
Right concept
diagram and
comments from the blog
discussion.
What was the Weimar Republic? How was it created
and what problems did it face?
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
137-45
Short BBC
documentary
film - Make
Germany Pay.
What are dictatorships and
democracies?
Worksheet
What is
fascism?
Worksheet
Video - the brilliant David Reynolds explains how the First
World War caused fascism.
Extract from Robert Pearce Fascism and Nazism.
Video
on Italian Fascism in Colour.
Video on the continuing influence of fascism today.
Who was Adolf Hitler and what did the Nazis
stand for in the 1920s? Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
148-50
BBC Video shown in lesson on Hitler's background
Worksheet
and extra support
sheet .
Ready for the next activity
consider the strengths and weaknesses of dramatic reconstruction
and traditional documentary on the
Munich Putsch of 1923.
Hitler's rise to power
dramatic
reconstruction .
John D Clare -
Nazi Party 1919-29
The impact
of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany: How did German's feel
about the first five years of democracy?
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
88-90 and 137-145.
Worksheet.
Short BBC
documentary
film - Make
Germany Pay. Brilliant
documentary - The
impact of WWI - Cambridge Historian. David Reynolds traces the
legacy of the Great War across 100 years and 10 different
countries, examining how the war haunted a generation and shaped
the peace that followed.
How far did the Weimar Republic recover after
1923?
Worksheet Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
88-90 and 146-47.
Short introductory
video from the Open University on the impact of the
Bauhaus on modernism. As seen in the
previous unit,
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's
Metropolis
What were
the consequences of the Wall Street Crash and Great Depression?
Worksheet
Impact of the Great
Depression.
Video from the 1990s documentary series
People's Century.
BBC Video series 'American Voices' on the
Depression .
Can you understand those who voted for Hitler in
1932? Impact of the Great
Depression
handout .
Hitler and the Nazis 1918-30
extract taken from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE . Walsh 148-155
GCSE Modern World History
Hitler as an orator activity - worksheets of
sources and
questions .
Empathy activity
GCSE Modern World History
How did
Hitler win power?
Essay planning activity -
worksheet .
Nazis: A Warning from History 1
Video shown
in class.
Questions to go with the video and
notes summarising the episode.
Hitler's rise to power
dramatic
reconstruction .
online activity John D Clare -
Nazi Party 1919-29 and How Hitler became Chancellor (limp
paper is the 9 point mnemonic for essay purposes - can you
reorganize this into 4-5 paragraphs?)
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. Dramatic
reconstruction of
the Reichstag Fire.
The end of democracy
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE .
GCSE Modern World History
John D Clare -
8 steps to Hitler becoming dictator and interesting
summary of why Hitler turned on the SA.
My
Reichstag Fire website which includes an
article that suggests the Nazis were responsible for
starting the fire.
How did Hitler control the German people?
Coercion, persuasion and consent: how popular
were the Nazis?
Coercion, persuasion and consent -
PowerPoint
VIDEO
Complete
this table over the next three lessons to show the way the
Nazi state controlled the people of Germany. Hitler's domestic policy
extract taken from
James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE .
Walsh 160-75
GCSE Modern World History
'We have ways of making you think' - Excellent
documentary on Goebbels.
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
An excellent series of short BBC revision
videos about Germany 1919-33.
What was Hitler's Foreign Policy and how did
Europe respond?
Table to completed. Walsh 255-272
GCSE Modern World History
Why was Hitler appeased?
Worksheet .
An excellent series of short BBC revision
videos
about the road to war.
John D Clare on the road to WWII.
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.extract from Darbyextract from Darby
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 - BBC 20th
Century History File - Why appeasement?
WW2history.com
