Holly Hall Academy – Key Stage 4 Curriculum Document, September 2015 – 2016
GCSE
Unit 1- International Relations 19191939
Sept-Dec Year 10
Unit 2- USA 1945-1975: A Land of
Freedom?
Jan-April- Year 10
And
Sep-Dec- Year 11 2015/2016 followed
by revision
Unit 3- The USA Between the Wars
1919-1941
April-July Year 10
Unit 4- British Depth Study 1890-1918
Sept-Dec 2016 (Year 10 moving into
Year 11)
Unit Questions:
Were the peace treaties of 1919-1923 fair?
To what extent was the League of Nations
a success?
Why had international peace collapsed by
1939?
Unit Questions:
Why was there a ‘Red Scare’ in the USA? How successful was the struggle for civil
rights in the 1950s?
Who improved civil rights the most in the1960s and 1970s?
How far did other groups achieve civil
rights in America?
Unit Questions:
Unit Question:
How far did the US economy boom in the
Why did the Liberal government introduce
1920s?
reforms to help the young, old and
How did US society change in the 1920s?
unemployed?
What were the causes and consequences
How and why did women try to win the
of the Wall Street Crash?
vote?
How successfully did the USA deal with the How were civilians affected by the First
problems it faced in the 1930s?
World War?
Key Unit Focuses:
The Treaty of Versailles, The League of
Nations, The Road to World War Two
Key Unit Focuses:
The Red Scare, Civil Rights in the 1950s,
Civil Rights in the 1960s and 70s, The
Civil Rights of Other Groups
Key Unit Focuses:
The Economic Boom, The Roaring
Twenties, The Great Depression,
Roosevelt’s New Deal
Key Unit Focuses:
The Liberal Reforms, Women’s Suffrage, the
Home Front during World War One
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Treaty, Justified, Satisfied, War Guilt,
Reparations, Military Restrictions,
Hyperinflation, Isolationism, Commissions,
Demilitarisation, Anschluss, Fascism,
Dictatorship, Lebensraum
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Red Scare, Supreme Court, McCarthyism,
Congress, Civil Rights, Segregation, Jim
Crow Laws, Wounded Knee, Chicano,
Women’s Liberation, Equality
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Rugged individualism , Isolationism,
Economic boom, Flapper, Prohibition,
Bootleggers, Congress, Alphabet agencies
Anti-Saloon League, Constitution,
Democratic party, Great Depression,
Import duties, Laissez-faire, Lynching,
Moonshine, New Deal, Racketeering ,
Shareholder, Speakeasies, Speculation,
Tariffs, Volstead Act
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Reform, Welfare, Effective, Suffrage, Home
Front, Propaganda, Censorship
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Essay- Treaty of Versailles
 Past exam question- League of
Nations
 Source based assessment- Road to
WW2
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Red Scare source based assessment
 Assessment on desegregated
education
 Past Paper on Civil Rights 1960s
(Kennedy and Malcolm X)
 USA Stars and Stripes Flag
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Controlled Assessment 2000 word
essay, question set by exam board.
25% of final grade
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Cradle to the Grave Building Task
 Propaganda Campaign
 Source based assessments on each key
question
Holly Hall Academy – Key Stage 4 Curriculum Document, September 2015 – 2016
GCSE
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

What’s next for Hitler? How should
the rest of the world react?
Key Unit Homework:

Creating definition for “The Red Scare
in the USA”

Revision before assessment

Explaining Civil Rights in the 1950s

Research task completing profiles of
key figures
Key Unit Homework:

One A4 page of research notes
Useful Websites:

https://prezi.com/kd5zkm97zqd
6/international-relations-gcserevision/

www.johndclare.net/Basics_intr
el.htm
Useful Websites:

www.hodderplus.co.uk/modern
worldhistory/pdf/The-USA-194575.pdf

http://getrevising.co.uk/resourc
es/level/gcse/subjects/history
Useful Websites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g
csebitesize/history/mwh/usa/
Key Unit Homework:
 Research question “What was life like
for the poor at the beginning of the
twentieth century?”
 Create something to help you remember
what has been studied. This could be a
mnemonic, visual aids, a story, a song
etc.
 Revision in preparation for assessment
 Design a propaganda poster for either
Recruitment or the Home Front
Useful Websites:

www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showt
hread.php?t=2365690

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcs
ebitesize/history/mwh/britain/