KS4 History

Students follow the AQA (B) specification for GCSE History (Modern world history)

Unit 1- International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the 20th Century.

Pupils are examined in May/June of year 10 and the exam is worth 37.5% of their GCSE. Pupils have 3 lessons a week of History in Year 10 and 11.

: Causes of WW1.
: Treaty of Versailles.
: League of Nations.
: Causes of WW2.
: The start of the Cold War.

Unit 2- Governments in Action in the 20th Century.

Pupils are examined in May/June of Year 11 and the exam is worth 37.5%.

: The American Dream in 1919.
: Prohibition and Gangsters in America.
: Did everyone prosper in 1920s America?
: Wall Street Crash.
: Roosevelt’s solutions to the depression.
: Civil Rights in the USA.
: Martin Luther King.

: Nazi Germany.
: How did Hitler get power?
: Nazi anti Jewish policies.
: Hitler’s policies on women.

Controlled Assessment.

The controlled assessment takes place in the Autumn of Year 11 and is worth 25% of the final grade. All work is completed in school and the pupils have to write up their work under exam conditions using a work diary to help them.

The controlled assessment will involve using sources of evidence to produce a comparison between some aspects of Britain at war in WW1 and WW2.