Outline scheme of learning for Year 10 History for 2013-14

Week / Topic Area/Key assessments / Key Ideas
0 (2 days)
1 / Unit 1: Origins of the First World War / Introduction to GCSE History
Kaiser Wilhelm’s aims in foreign policy; Weltpolitik ‘a place in the sun’ German attitudes towards Great Britain. Development of the German navy
2 / Entente Cordiale and Anglo Russian agreement Development of the Triple Alliance Entente. Britain’s emergence from ‘splendid isolation’.
3 / The arms race military and naval why did countries increase the size of their armed forces The Anglo German naval race
MID UNIT TEST
4 / Moroccan crises 1905 and 1911 and their effects on the alliances
5 / Bosnian crises1908-9 and their effects on the alliances
Aims of Austria Hungary and Serbia in the Balkans, the role of the Black hand
6 / The assassination at Sarajevo Gavrilo Princip the response of Austria Hungary the ultimatum and Serbia’s response,
7 / The events leading to war the role of the alliances in 1914

Half term 28th October -1st November

1 / The Schlieffen plan and its impact on the outbreak of war its part in bringing Britain about Great Britain’s declaration
2 / Responsibility for the outbreak of war and the escalation of the conflict
TEST Unit 1 (35 minutes)
3 / Controlled Assessment Part 1 / Preparation
4 / Preparation
5 / Preparation
6 / Write up
7(4 days) / Slippage -

Christmas holiday 20th Dec 2013 – 5th Jan 2012

1 / Controlled Assessment Part 2 / Preparation
2 / Preparation
3 / Preparation
4 / Preparation
5 / Preparation
6 / Write up

Half term 17th-21st February

1 / Unit 2: Peacemaking and the League of Nations / Paris Peace conference: the aims of Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson; the Fourteen PointsCollapse of the League, End of unit Test
2 / Work experience
3 / Work experience
4 / Main terms of the Treaty of Versailles; Diktat territorial changes military restrictions war guilt and reparations.
5 / Strengths and weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles. Why Germany objected to it.
6 / Overview
League of Nations membership 1919-1939 why and how it changed. Implications for the League of Nations
7 (2 days) / League of Nations organisation - the Assembly, the Council, the Permanent Court of International Justice

Easter 9th April -21st April

1(4 days) / Manchuria
2 / Abyssinian crisis/ Collapse of the League
3(4 days) / End of unit test
4 / Unit 3: Hitler’s foreign policy and outbreak of WW2 / Hitler’s aims in foreign policy
5 / Beginning of rearmament in Germany withdrawal from the Disarmament conference 1933, Non aggression pact with Poland 1934, reintroduction of conscription from 1935, Anglo German naval agreement 1935
Half term 26th May-30th May; Last day Fri 18th July.
1 / Return of the Saar 1935, remilitarisation of the Rhineland 1936
Anschluss with Austria 1938
2 / Reasons for and against appeasement
Sudetenland crisis and Munich agreement 1938
3 / Revision for Year 10 exam
4 /

Year 10 Exam Week

5 /

Exam Feedback

6 /

Complete Unit 3

/ Czechoslovakia 1939
7 /

Complete Unit 3

/ Role of USSR 1938-39 the Nazi Soviet Pact, Poland and the outbreak of war 1939

Responsibility for the outbreak of war

End of Unit 3