| S6 2hr History |
Last
update -
10 May 2012 |
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? |
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. |
| 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
Friday 25th May 2012 |
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 the
lesson about the rescue mission of Nicholas Winton |
An international project about Nicholas Winton
from 2008 |
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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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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. |
The occupation of
France produced one of the greatest and most 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 |
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