Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit Questions:
Question:
HollyUnit
Hall
Academy Key
Were the peace treaties of
What were the causes and
1919-1923 fair?
defining moments of World
To what extent was the
War Two?
League of Nations a Success?
Why had international peace
collapsed by 1939?

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

Unit Question:
Unit Question:
Unit Question:
Stage
3 Curriculum Document,
September 2015-2016
What conflicts arose post
1945 and how were these
YEAR 9
resolved?

Who shot JFK?

How effective has terrorism

been since 1969?

Key Unit Focuses:

The Treaty of Versailles, The
League of Nations, The Road
to World War Two

Key Unit Focuses:

Causes of World War Two
The Battles of World War Two

Key Unit Focuses:

Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Moon Landing
Conspiracy Theories

Key Unit Focuses:

Lee Harvey Oswald
The CIA
The Mob

Key Unit Focuses:

Key Unit Concepts/Words:

Treaty, Justified, Satisfied, War
Guilt, Reparations, Military
Restrictions, Hyperinflation,
Isolationism, Commissions,
Demilitarisation, Anschluss,
Fascism, Dictatorship,
Lebensraum

Key Unit Concepts/Words:

Evidence, patriotism,
propaganda, cause,
consequence, democracy,
dictatorship, warfare,
society/culture, morality

Key Unit Concepts/Words:

Cause, consequence,
interpretation, balance of
power, international cooperation, tension,
negotiation

Key Unit Concepts/Words:

Conspiracy, assassination,
causation, suspect

Key Unit Concepts/Words:

Warfare, tolerance, civilian,
government, cause,
consequence, change,
development

Key Assessments/Creative
Outcomes:
Essay- Treaty of Versailles

Key Assessments/Creative
Outcomes:
Interpretation- Mikhail
Gorbachev

Key Assessments/Creative
Outcomes:
Interpretation JFK essay

Past exam questionLeague of Nations

Source based assessmentRoad to WW2
Key Unit Homework:
Do you think the Treaty of
Versailles was fair and
why?
Research and explain.
Why was it so hard for the
Big 3 to agree about what
to do with Germany after
WW1?
Revision in preparation for
assessment
Whats next for Hitler?
How should the rest of the
world react?

Key Assessments/Creative
Outcomes:
Source assessment World War
Two

Key Assessments/Creative
Outcomes:
Group Project on modern
terrorism

Key Unit Homework:

Persuasive writing on
fairness of Versailles
punishment
Redrafting after
assessment
Creative writing-Dunkirk
newspaper
Redrafting after source
assessment

Key Unit Homework:

Research one conflict of
the Cold War as part of
overview
Research different views
of Gorbachev

Key Unit Homework:

Creative newspaper article
on assassination
Research into different
interpretation theories

Key Unit Homework:

Reflective writing on
causes of terrorism.
Research into activities of
one terrorist group.

Useful Websites:
https://prezi.com/kd5z
km97zqd6/internation
al-relations-gcserevision/

Useful Website:
http://www.historylear
ningsite.co.uk/famous
_battles_of_world_war
_two.htm

Useful Website:
http://www.ducksters.
com/history/cold_war/
summary.php

Useful Website:
http://www.eyewitnesst
ohistory.com/jfk.htm

Useful Website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
cbbcnews/hi/newsid_2
520000/newsid_25292
00/2529233.stm

IRA, PLO and Al Qaeda