| S7 4hr History |
Last
update -
17 May 2023 |
Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Compulsory Core - Europe 5 - Eastern Europe,
Western Europe
(1949-73) -
syllabus |
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Key Questions and syllabus references. |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
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How and why were there different conditions for
social and economic development in Europe?
Key words:
Capitalism, Free Market, Planned Economy, Social Market Economy,
Wirtschaftswunder
Possible Reference Points:
Founding of the FRG (1949), Founding of the GDR (1949,
Berlin Uprising (1953), Berlin Wall (1961) |
Germany
Divided 1949-61 -
Worksheet 1 Short
video as seen in the lesson.
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Prezi presentation of Germany 1949-61 |
Berlin Wall content from the 7.4A Cold War section of the
syllabus. |
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Complete Prezi presentation of full syllabus content
of Europe 5 - Eastern Europe, Western Europe (1949-73)
(work in progress) |
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How far were the economic models of the
Superpowers emulated?
What economic and social models were developed
in Europe?
How did economic development in eastern and
western Europe compare?
Key words:
Planned Economy, Titoism,
Gomułka
Possible Reference Points:
Hungarian Revolution
(1956) Riots, crises
and protests - who protested and why? |
Eastern Europe in the 1950s -
Worksheet 2
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Prezi presentation of central and eastern Europe in
the 1950s |
Edited
video extract from Cold War about De-Stalinization in Poland
as seen in the lesson.
More about the
Slansky Trial,
Tito-Stalin split and
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
from my worksheets from the previous syllabus.
Hungary 1956
revision sheet.
Edited
video extract from Cold War about the Hungarian Uprising as
seen in the lesson.
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History Walsh –
400-403
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Video about
the Hungarian Uprising from the BBC Schools Cold War series. The highly reliable
Wikipedia, the
BBC and
John D Clare on the Hungarian Uprising,
Series of
lectures by historian Jamie Shea on the NATO website. This
one deals with the 1950s and draws links between many of the
events you have been studying.
Slansky Trial from
Radio Prague
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British born Ivy Norman Kovanda,
grandmother of an EEBIII student,
witnessed the Czechoslovak purges first hand. This is
her
personal account. |
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L'Aveu
a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa Gavras and
staring Yves Montand. It is based on the true story of the
Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a defendant in the
Slánský trial. |
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How
were the living conditions in the states, blocs and regions of
Europe different between 1949 and 1973?
How far did economic development stabilize the political
situation in Europe?How far were
the economic models of the Superpowers emulated?
Possible Reference Points:
Oil Crisis (1973)
Key question from core unit, Europe 6: How and
why did the communist regimes of central and eastern Europe
collapse in 1989? |
Why did communist
regimes last so long? -
Worksheet 3
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Prezi presentation explaining the resilience of the
communist system. |
Coercion, Persuasion and Consent. My
model of state control explained.
Short
video extract from the People's Century series.
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The Lost World of
Communism. Documentary
series examining everyday life in East Germany,
Czechoslovakia and Romania. |
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More about the historians
Zbigniew Brzezinski and
Eric Hobsbawm. |
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How far were the economic models of the
Superpowers emulated?·
What economic and social models were developed
in Europe?
How did economic development in eastern and
western Europe compare?
What impact did economic development have on living conditions?
Key words:
Gastarbeiter, Migration
Possible Reference Points:
ECSC (1951), Treaty of Rome (1957),
Founding of EFTA (1960), Oil Crisis (1973)
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What were the causes and consequences of the post-war economic
boom in western Europe?
Worksheet 4
Video on the post war boom as seen in the lesson, edited extract from the People's
Century series.
Notes from the People's Century episode.
Includes a very useful summary of the causes and consequences of
the 1973 Oil Crisis. Short videos on
1950s
youth culture and
women, edited from the
People's Century series. |
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The full episode of
People's Century, a
video
which examines the post-war boom. |
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| How
were the living conditions in the states, blocs and regions of
Europe different between 1949 and 1973? What economic and social models were developed
in Europe?
How did economic development in eastern and
western Europe compare?
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Worksheet 5 on Greece, Spain and Portugal 1949-73 and
the
Venn diagram to complete.
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An
online history of Greece and a very readable
account of the years of dictatorship.
On the impact of tourism see this brilliant
use of before-and-after
photos of Spain c1950 and today.
Engineering of consent in Spain. How Spanish
children were taught civic education in Franco's Spain -
Asi Quiero Ser |
| Riots, crises
and protests - who protested and why? Key words:
The German Student Movement,
68ers, Extra-parliamentary Opposition, The Women’s Movement
Possible Reference Points:
Paris May (1968) |
Worksheet 6 on the youth and women's protest movements. Walsh 380-386.GCSE Modern World History
Short videos on 1960s
student movement and
the second wave of feminism, edited from the People's
Century series. |
Chapter 1 of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique "The
Problem that Has No Name".
The importance of the Beatles in the Cold War?
Article
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The full episodes of
People's Century that examine the
youth movement and the position of
women in the post-war world. |
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| Riots, crises
and protests - who protested and why? Key words:
Prague Spring, Brezhnev
Doctrine
Possible Reference Points:
Prague Spring (1968) |
Worksheet 7 on Czechoslovakia and Poland 1960s-73.
Cold War
video seen the lesson.
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