St Matthew’s RC High School
KS4 Curriculum Plan
Subject: GCSE History OCR Specification B
Yr
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
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International
Relations 19191939
International
Relations 19191939
Independent
Enquiry
USA: 1919-1941
Independent
Enquiry
USA: 1919-1941
Independent
Enquiry
USA: 1919-1941
End of WWI
Aims of the Big
Three
Terms of the Treaty
of Versailles
How satisfied were
the Big Three with
the Treaty?
Other Peace
Treaties
Aims of LoN
Structure and
organisation of the
LoN
Successes in the
1920s
Invasions of
Manchuria and
Abyssinia
Hitler’s aims
British policy of
Appeasement
Hitler’s actions
1936-1939
Causes of the
economic boom
Effects of the boom
Changing social
attitudes in the
1920s
Depth Study The
USA, Land of
Freedom? 19451975
Racism and the Ku
Klux Klan
US foreign policy
The Wall St. Crash
The Great
Depression
The Red Scare in
the 1950s
The rise and fall of
McCarthyism
The position of
black Americans at
the end of WWII
Brown v Topeka
Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
Rosa Parks and the
Montgomery Bus
Boycotts
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Depth Study The
USA, Land of
Freedom? 19451975
The development of
the civil rights
movements in the
1960s
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
The role of the
Presidents in
creating change
Other groups who
campaigned for civil
rights
British Depth
Study
British Depth
Study
How was British
society changed,
1890−1918?
How was British
society changed,
1890−1918?
Working and living
conditions for the
poor in the 1890s.
Liberal reforms
Women’s social,
political and legal
position in the
1890s.
Suffragettes
Live on the home
front during WWI
Revision
Revision