| S6 4hr History |
Last
update -
13 May 2023 |
Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Compulsory Core - Europe 3 - Europe and Europeans
in the Second World War -
syllabus |
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Key Questions and learning and assessment
objectives. |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
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Why was Germany successful in the initial stages
of World War II? |
Worksheet 'What was the Second World War?.
Questions 1-5 from this
worksheet. Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
Chapter 10.1 (pp. 278-300)
Video - The BBC's Andrew Marr on the importance of Dunkirk
1941 and how Pathe News reported it at the time. A more realistic view of the myth
of Dunkirk? Video extract from the feature film,
Atonement |
BBC on World War II.
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WW2history.com
The website of Laurence Rees. The BBC writer producer of
the landmark documentaries. |
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| Total war?
What were the similarities and differences between the First and
Second World War? |
Worksheet and
table to be completed comparing and contrasting World Wars I
and II as total wars.
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Total War
Video
on WWI from the 1990s documentary series People's
Century.
Website for the series. |
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Reminder of WWI as a
'total war'. Mindmapping, notemaking activity
worksheet
which should have been completed in Semester 1. |
| 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 106 years old (May 2015) |
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Extermination, collaboration and resistance: what happened to
the people during World War II? |
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." In
1985, Shoah won Best Documentary and Special Award at the
New York Film Critics Circle. |
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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
Witness 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.
On the massacre at Lidice see this recent
(2014) short
video form the BBC Witness series.
Video - World at War - Part 1
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
II. |
| How did
the nature of war change in the period 1935-1945? |
Worksheet
to be completed on the five themes of the nature
of warfare. |
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Why was Germany defeated? |
Questions 6-10 from
worksheet
'What was the Second World War?.
Worksheet 'What was the Second World War?. Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
Chapter 10.1 (pp. 278-300)
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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