| S7 4hr History |
Last
update -
17 May 2023 |
Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Compulsory Core - Europe 4 - Post-war Europe
(1945-49) -
syllabus |
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Key Questions and syllabus references. |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
| What were the major consequences of the Second
World War for Europe?
Key words: Liberation |
Syllabus
outline for S7
Review work from
Year
6-
Worksheet 'What was the Second World War?.
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
Chapter 10.1 (pp. 278-300)
Important
information sheet
summary of Yalta and Potsdam. |
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. |
Archive video
footage of the
Holocaust. Selected archive video
footage of the liberation of various European
countries. |
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What was Épuration légale? Key word: The Épuration légale,
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Worksheet 1
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Case-study: collaborator or resistant? -
Louis Renault
13 part video series
The Nazi Collaborators.
This includes episodes about France, Greece, Belgium and other
occupied countries during World War II.
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How far
was Europe divided by 1949? How
did communist governments come to power in central and eastern
Europe.
Key words: Iron
Curtain, Sovietisation, The Cold War, Eastern Bloc, Oder-Neisse
Line,
Possible Reference Points:
Marshall Plan (1947), Cominform (1947), Prague coup (1948) |
Worksheet 2 -
Summarize the concerns
of Western governments in a briefing paper to President Truman.
Extra
information
from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE
Walsh p.330
GCSE Modern World History
Learn the details of the geography and timing of the takeover.
Annotated map.
Video on the
'salami tactics' takeover of central and eastern Europe.
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Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
322-30
Extension
notes for those
looking to provide President Truman with more
individual/detailed briefing notes.
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What was the 'German problem' and why was it so central to the
early stages of the Cold War? Key words:
Denazification, Population transfer
Possible Reference Points:
The Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946), |
Worksheet 3 - What
was the impact of World War II on Germany?
Short
video on the fall
of Berlin in 1945.
BBC Schools - History File
documentary series on the Cold War - episode on
Berlin |
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History
318-323.
Films about the
Nuremberg Trials. Denazification images from the outstanding
GHDI website.
Richard Overy essay on the
Nuremburg Trials.
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Key words:
Population transfer, Reconstruction, Iron Curtain,
Atlanticism
Possible Reference Points: The Marshall
Plan |
Worksheet 4 -
Morgenthau to Marshall: How did attitudes towards Germany change
in the period 1945-48.
PowerPoint
from lesson.
Text of Zhdanov's
speech establishing Cominform - Two Camp Theory (Zhdanov
Doctrine).
Atlanticism
explained. |
Historian Tony Judt answers
11 key questions
on the Marshall Plan. Alternatively read the longer
unedited version.
Tony Judt on
why France changed
her attitude to Germany.
Detailed
presentation
on the Marshall Plan.
Video - Full
documentary history of Germany 1945-49 |
Key words:
Containment
Possible Reference Points: Berlin
Blockade (1948-1949) DDR and FRD (1949) |
Worksheet 5 -
What were the main causes and consequences of the Berlin Airlift
Short
video as seen in the lesson.
Extra info -
Worksheet
from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE |
President Truman library
activity on the Berlin Airlift.
Old British
newsreel about the Airlift.
Series of
lectures by historian Jamie Shea on the NATO website. This
one deals with the 1940s and draws links between many of the
events you have been studying.
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East and West: in what other ways was Europe divided by 1949? Possible Reference Points:
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949),
Tito-Stalin split (1948) |
Worksheet 6 -
Europe divided outside the blocs: UK, Spain, Yugoslavia and
Greece. Revision
diagram to
complete. |
Tony Judt on why Britain didn't join
the EEC.
More on
Titoism.
British
documentary on
the Greek Civil War.
Extract from historian James Joll provides an excellent
detailed summary of why Europe became divided. |
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