A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 1 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1789-1939
FIRST TOPIC, SEMESTER 1 WEEKS 1-5 (THEME III: NATIONALISM)
THEME
ASPECT
CONTENT
1. Conditions for
a. How French Revolution
 Causes, Nature and Impact of
French and
and revolutionary wars
French Revolution
European
increased European
 People’s/Ideological wars
nationalism
nationalism
 Spain’s guerrilla war
b. Napoleon’s Legacy
 Napoleon Bonaparte
 The Congress System
c. Social and Economic
 Industrial Revolution
influences
 Urbanisation
d. Intellectual movements
 Romanticism (music, literature)
and their influence
 Liberalism (Chartism, etc.)
 Darwinism (impact on religion)
2. Italian
Nationalism
a. Condition of Italy
b. The 1848 Revolutions
c. Role of Mazzini, Cavour
and Garibaldi
d. The Risorgimeto to
1871
3. German
Nationalism
a. 1848 revolutions and
Germany
b. Unification of Germany
(1871)
c. Relations with other
European states to c1900
4. Significance of
European
nationalism
a. What did increased
nationalism result in?
 Nature of Italy c1850: socially,
geographically, economically,
politically, linguistically
 Causes
 Nature
 Effects
 Compare and Contrast leading
figures
 How it was achieved
 What were the motives behind
it
 Causes
 Nature
 Effects
 How it was achieved
 Role of Bismarck et al
 What were the motives
 German nationalism &
imperialism
 Relations with enemies
 Relations with allies
 Imperialism
 Militarism
 Xenophobia
 Instability =
(L-T causes of WWI)
RESOURCES
Booklet (MN)
Model Essays
TIME
16 Lessons
(2 weeks)
Beethoven
Symphony No. 3
and No. 6
Plenary Exercises
Booklet (MN)
Flow Diagrams on
1848
8 Lessons
(1 Week)
Plenary Exercises
Booklet (MN)
8 Lessons
(2 Weeks)
ASSESSMENT
Timed Essay
Tests to be part
of continuous
assess. criteria
along with tests
on other
themes (= 4
tests in total of
40% weighting
of S1 final
grade; EST
exam = 60%)
All lessons will
include
‘starters’ as a
way of
reinforcing
including:
splatt,
historicalhangman,
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
Plenary
Exercises
Plenary Exercises
Sources on late
19th century
German foreign
policy e.g.
‘Dropping the
pilot’, etc.
2 Lessons
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 1 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1789-1939
THIRD TOPIC, SEMESTER 1, WEEKS 13-16 (THEME V: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION)
THEME
ASPECT
CONTENT
RESOURCES
1. Pre-Revolution
a. 19th and Early 20th
 19th Century Tsars: Nicholas I,
Booklet (MN)
Conditions in
Century Russian society,
Alexander II and Alexander III
Russia
leadership and politics
 Condition of Russia in 1900
 Social Classes pyramid
 Nicholas II
b. Economic and Social
 Actions of Witte
Developments
 Actions of Stolypin
c. Revolutionary groups
 Mensheviks
 Bolsheviks
 SR’s
 (Kadets)
d. 1905 Revolution
 Causes of 1905 – Long-Term
and Short-Term Reasons
 Nature of 1905 ‘Revolution’
Plenary Exercises
 Effects of 1905 ‘Revolution’
 Was 1905 a revolution???
2. Causes, Nature
a. Causes of the
 Role of WWI
Booklet (MN)
and Impact of the
February/March
 Actions of the Tsar
1917 Russian
Revolution
 Other Factors e.g. Rasputin
Boney M’s
Revolutions
‘Rasputin’
– song
b Causes of the
 Role of the Provisional Govt.
and lyrics
October/November
 Kornilov’s Mutiny
Revolution
 Actions of the Bolsheviks
 Why Bolsheviks succeeded
c. Roles of Lenin and
 Compare and Contrast Lenin
Trotsky
and Trotsky
d. The nature of
 Ideology/Propaganda
Bolshevism and the early
 Reforms/Changes
USSR
 Practical Actions: War
Communism, NEP, etc.
e. Effects of the Russian
 The Russian Civil War
Revolution on Europe/the
 Relations with Weimar
World
 Anglo-French attitudes
Plenary Exercises
 US attitudes
TIME
16 Lessons
(2 Weeks)
ASSESSMENT
Paired/Group
Work Research
Assignment on
opposition
groups for
class
presentation
Timed Essay in
Class on:
19th Century
Russia or 1905
Revolution
16 Lessons
(2 Weeks)
Timed Essay in
Class on:1917
Revolutions
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A/SLEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 1 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1789-1939
FOURTH TOPIC, SEMESTER 2 WEEKS 1-10 (THEME VI: TOTALITARIANISM
THEME
ASPECT
CONTENT
1. Conditions for
a. Effects of WWI
 Consequences of WWI
the Rise of
b. Impact of the Great
 How the Great Depression
Totalitarianism
Depression
de-stabilised the world
c. Failure of collective
 Why League of Nations so
security
ineffectual
d. Failure of democratic
 Appeasement
government
 Isolationism
2. Ideological
a. Leadership/Cult of
 ‘Strong man’ cult
Aspects
Personality
 Contemporary parallels
b. Intolerance
 Scapegoats and Victims
c. Economic plans
 Grandiose schemes e.g.
autarky, FYP’s, etc.
d. Political Structure
 Authoritarian power structures
3. Totalitarian
a. Ideological determinants
 Racism, Imperialism, Marxism,
Regimes and
Militarism, etc.
Foreign Relations
b. Foreign policy
 Ideological or Pragmatic?
4. Fascism and
a. Ideology
 Fascist Ideas
Mussolini
b. Mussolini’s Rise to
 Long Term Reasons
Power
 Short Term Reasons
c. Nature of the Fascist
 Political and Economic Methods
regime
and Structures
 Foreign Policy
 Successes and Failures
5. Nazism and
a. Ideology
 NSDAP’s beliefs
Hitler
b. Hitler’s Rise to Power
 Weimar Germany
 Power struggles
c. Nature of the Nazi
 Political and Economic Methods
regime
and Structures
 Successes and Failures
6. Stalinism and
a. Ideology
 Stalinism v. Communism
Stalin
b. Stalin’s Rise to Power
 Power struggles
 Versus Lenin/Trotsky
c. Nature of the Stalinist
 Political and Economic Methods
regime
and Structures
 Foreign Policy
 Successes and Failures
7. Similarities &
d. Comparisons of
 Compare with Nazism, etc.
Differences
ideologies, methods, etc.
 Compare with Hitler, etc.
BETWEEN THE WARS, 1919-1939)
RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
Timed Essay
Booklet (MN)
8 Lessons
Tests to be part
(1 week)
of continuous
assess. criteria
along with tests
on other
themes (= 4
tests in total of
40% weighting
of S2 final
grade; Mock
exam = 60%)
Plenary Exercises
Booklet (MN)
Plenary Exercises
Booklets (MN)
Feature Film:
‘Hitler, the Rise of
Evil’
20 Lessons
(2.5
Weeks)
24 Lessons
(3 Weeks)
All lessons will
include
‘starters’ as a
way of
reinforcing
including:
splatt,
historicalhangman,
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
Plenary Exercises
Booklet (MN)
Video on Hitler
and Stalin
24 Lessons
(3 Weeks)
Plenary Exercises
Comparison
Tables
4 Lessons
Plenary
Exercises
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A/SLEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 1 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1789-1939
SECOND TOPIC, SEMESTER 1 WEEKS 6-12 (THEME I: THE ORIGINS OF WWI, SOURCE-BASED QUESTION)
THEME
ASPECT & CONTENT
RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
1. Historiography
 Nature of WWI historiography: ‘everybody, no-body
Booklet (MN)
4 Lessons
Assignments on
and Germany did it’ approach
Historiography to
 Look at historians and their arguments
help with learning
 Discuss critically the various viewpoints and approaches
theories
 How have attitudes changed over time?
2. Long-Term
Causes of WWI
3. Short-Term
Triggers
4. Re-cap on
Causes
 Militarism – which nations most/which least militaristic
 Xenophobia, Chauvinism & Racism
 Nationalism
 Arms Race including: naval race and role of arms
industry
 Imperialism – role of empires/colonies
 Alliances – the various treaties and pacts
 Economics
 Internal Problems
 Bad Leadership: the Tsars, Kaisers and Kings
 Moroccan Crises of 1905 and 1911
 Bosnia-Herzegovina Annexation Crisis 1908
 Balkans Wars 1912-13
 Sarajevo 1914
 Schlieffen Plan & Plan 17
 Look at the myriad of causes and how they inter-link
Ditto
8 Lessons
(1 Week)
Exercises
Maps
Ditto
12 Lessons
(1.5
Weeks)
Plenary = Flow
Diagram
1 Lesson
5. Effects of WWI
 Effects of WWI (helps pinpoint causes in a no. of ways)
 Why Central Powers Lost
 Impact of WWI on 20s and 30s
Booklet (MN)
3 Lessons
Exercises
6. Past Paper
Practice
 Basic Source Work Terminology and Techniques
 Techniques of approaching the Source-Based Question
(8-stage process)
 Past source questions to practise
Sourcework
Techniques
28 Lessons
(3.5
Weeks)
Groupwork planning answers
Essay and Source
practice from CIE
past papers
(www.cie.org.uk
Class and
Homework Practice
&
Timed Essays in
Class
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12