A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) – SOURCE- BASED
STUDY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UN, 1945-91 (SEMESTER ONE, 2011)
THEME
ASPECT
1. The Power of
The Covenant
CONTENT & AIMS

RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
HOMEWORK
Timeline of UN’s Formation/Glossary of Terms
Booklet (MN)
S1
Two Timed
Gap-Fill on
The UN Charter
(Pages 2-10 & p. 42)
Week
Document
Comparisons
Structure & Organisation (Bodies of the UN)
Labels/Blue Tack
11-12
Tests to be part
between
Comparisons & Contrasts with League
Utilise Whittaker &
of continuous
League & UNO
A Changing UN
MacQueen texts
assessment
Study for tests
Booklet (P. 11-15)
Week
criteria along
Empathy
12
with tests on
exercise
Week
Origins and
Past document
12
Globilisation of
paper
the UN




The Powers That
Be
Security
Peace-keeping &
Attitudes & Actions of USA/USSR


Peace-making
Non Alignment Movement

The Superpowers
2. Collective
(Teach techniques for approaching document questions)
Wk.12
How peace-keepers functioned
Booklet (MN)
Week
tests in total of
Case studies on
13-14
40%
Korea and the
Labels/Blue Tack
weighting of S1
Congo crises
Peace-keeping Actions & Geography
Whittaker
grade; EST
During & After the Cold War
(p.14-18; 50-1)
exam = 60%)
Assessment of Peace-Keeping
MacQueen (p. 33-44)
All lessons will
Generals roles
The Secretary-Generals
Lowe & Atlases
include
& personalities
Methods
Booklet (p. 27)
Wk. 15
Provisions
Booklet (p. 28)
Wk. 15
Methods, including disarmament
Booklet (p. 29)
Wk. 15
Definitions & Actions
Booklet (p. 30)
Wk. 15
Bodies of ESOC
Booklet (p. 31-32)
Wk. 15
IMF & World Bank
Booklet (p. 36-37)
Pressures
Booklet (p. 34)
Wk. 16
How UN aims to help refugees
Booklet (p. 33)
Wk. 16



Law
UNCLOS


Anti-Terrorism

Anti-Genocide
4. Social &

Economics

Economic Progress

Population

Refugees
Palestine
Case Studies: Korea & the Congo


Human Rights


Whittaker/MacQueen
Booklet (P. 16)


Booklet (P. 11-15)
Roles of UN

Enforcement
Whittaker/MacQueen
Cold War (= 4
Peace
3. International
USA & USSR

(Pages 17-26)
Efficacy of methods - discussion
Children

UNICEF
Booklet (p. 35)
Wk. 16
Environment

UNESCO
Booklet (p. 39-40)
Week
Summaries: Historiography & Assessment of UN
(Pages 38 & 41)
17

‘starters’ as a
way of
Secretary-
Study for test
reinforcement
including:
splatt,
historicalhangman,
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
Plenary
Exercises
Gap-fill – on
UNHCR
Study for Test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) –
THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR (SEMESTER ONE, 2011)
THEME
ASPECT
1. Fundamental
The Long Term
Reasons
Reasons
CONTENT & AIMS

RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
HOMEWORK
Definition of ‘Cold War’; Glossary (for pertinent vocabulary)
Booklet (MN) p. 23
S1
Timed test essay
Students must
US Actions
& 1-2; Walker;
Week
on Origins of
make on-going
Soviet Actions
Painter/Lundestad
1
Cold War (part of
notes - and read!
Ideology of Communism and Democracy – contrasts exercise
Booklet (p, 3)
Week
continuous
Discussion – which is best?
Issue McCauley
1
assessment
Terms – gap-fill and discussion of WWII tensions
Booklet (page 4)
Week
weighting
2
procedure; set
Week
four essays in
Table on Truman
2
S1; total
and Stalin’s early
weighting =
actions
Week
40%, i.e. each
Crossword on
3
essay is worth
Iron Curtain


Ideology


2. The Wartime
Atlantic Charter
Conferences
Teheran

Why might Stalin be annoyed with GB & USA?

Yalta &
Potsdam
2. The Cold War
Begins
The Iron
Terms –gap-fill exercise



Map of Berlin sectors to colour
4-7)

Truman & Stalin’s Early Actions
Crayons
Churchill’s Speech – content & crossword exercise
Booklet
Curtain Speech
Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’

Greece &
Booklet (pages
The Greek Civil War–map and discussion

(pages 8-9)
Booklet (page 10)
Turkey
3
The Truman
Reasons and Impact – discussion

Doctrine


Berlin Blockade
Week
Soviet Responses - spider diagram exercise
(pages 11-12)
3
Impact of Marshall aid
Labels/Blue Tack
Reasons – empathy exercise
Booklet (p. 13-16)
Week
Nature
Glue & scissors
4
Effects - Relative Importance exercise
Blank maps
Earnest
5. Controversies
3
Booklet



FRG & GDR

Creation & Significance
Labels
NATO

Creation & Map to fill in
Blue Tack
Tit for Tat

Mix and Match exercise
The

Historiography
grade)
All lessons will
include ‘starters’
Prepare paper on
Truman Doctrine
as a way of
reinforcement
including: splatt,
historicalhangman,
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
Traditionalists/Revisionists/Post-Revisionists
Booklet (pages
Week
Exercise on
Useful websites – note-taking
17-18 & 20-22)
5-7
historiography

e.g. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

Week
US Motives – spider diagram exercise

4. The Cold War in
Booklet (page 10)
Student Presentation on Truman Doctrine

The Marshall
Plan
Week
10% of final
Essay Practice & Techniques –mind maps, etc.
Poster Paper/Pens
Internet sites
Plenary
Exercises
Study for test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) –
THE GLOBILISATION OF THE COLD WAR c. 1950-1985 (SEMESTER ONE, 2011)
THEME
ASPECT
1. The Asian Wars
Korea
CONTENT & AIMS
RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
HOMEWORK
Introduction – map exercise on global conflicts
Booklet (MN)
S1
Timed test essay
Complete gap-fill
The Korean War – gap-fill
(pages 2-6)
Week
on Globilisation
on Korean War
Cold War Implications of the Korean War
Edwards
9
of the Cold War
Role of Truman and Stalin
Lundestad
The Vietnam War – causes of US involvement exercise
Booklet




Vietnam

Presidential timeline exercise



procedure; set
Booklet
Week
S1; total
Table on impact
Cuban Missile Crisis
(p. 13-16)
11
weighting =
of Cuban Missile
Why USSR placed missiles on Cuba – spider diagram ex.
’13 Days’ film
40%, i.e. each
Crisis
US actions against Cuba – read and discuss
and exercise
essay is worth

McCarthyism
Week
match exercise
video; Booklet
11
Soviet motives and actions – gap-fill exercise
Booklet
Week
include ‘starters’
US motives and actions - gap-fill exercise
(p. 20-21)
12
as a way of
Overall Conclusions - exercise
Booklet
Week
reinforcement
(p. 22)
12
including: splatt,
Booklet
Week
historical-
(p. 23-24)
13
hangman,


Implications
The Thaw
Actions, Meetings & Treaties

End of Détente

Why détente ended
(p. 25-26)
spelling bee,
word searches,
The 2nd Cold War

The Events of 1979-85
Booklet (p. 27)
The Impact

For the US and its allies
Booklet (p. 28)

Essay Techniques

For the USSR and its allies
Week
(Pages 29-30)
Week
Paired work to practice essay planning
Poster Paper
14

etc.
14
Past questions and how to approach structuring an answer
Cold War
Presidents
(p. 17-19)
US presidents and the Cold War – research exercise

grade)
All lessons will
Superpower
5. Consequences
10% of final
Consequences of the Crisis - exercise
Other Latin American and Caribbean US ventures – mix and

4. Détente
four essays in
Historiography on Vietnam
Cuba, the Background (gap-fill exercise)

Conflicts
timeline exercise
Painter

Arab-Israeli
10
Whittaker

3. The Middle East
Presidential
Consequences of War for Vietnamese and USA – brainstorm


continuous
assessment
Why did the US lose –was it a complete failure of containment?
Cuba
Latin America
Week
weighting

2. The Americas
(pages 7-12)
(part of
Exercise
Create a timeline
of Cold War
Plenary
Exercises
Study for test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) –
THE CRISIS OF COMMUNISM & THE END OF THE COLD WAR (SEMESTER TWO, 2012)
THEME
ASPECT
1. Sino-Soviet
Long term Reasons
CONTENT & AIMS
RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
HOMEWORK.
Map of PRC/USSR – discussion of features
Booklet (MN)
S2
Timed test essay
Gap-fill on Short
Good and Bad relations
(Pages 2-3)
W. 1
on The Crisis and
Term Reasons
Gap-fill on why Sino-Soviet relations became strained
(Page 4)
W. 1
Collapse of
History of Clashes
(Page 5)
W. 1
Overview
Booklet
W. 2

Crisis

Short Term Reasons

Sino-Soviet Conflict
2. Challenges
to Communism

USSR & Eastern

Europe
Reasons & Effects of Hungarian Revolt Exercise


Lundestad
Comparisons and Contrasts Exercise
(Marples) &
Reasons for the Berlin Wall Empathy Exercise


Collapse of
Effects of the Berlin Wall Empathy Exercise
Communism in

assessment
weighting
procedure; set
Painter as course
four essays in
texts
Long Term Reasons exercise
Booklet (p. 13
Map and exercise on Eastern European nations in 1989
p.18-19)

W. 3


Booklet
Timeline of Polish Discontent = Create Narrative
(p. 14-17)
W. 3
Solidarity’s Role In Communism’s Collapse - discussion

Role in Collapse of E.
What did Gorbachev do?
Booklet (p. 20)
W. 4
Culpability of Pre-Gorbachev Soviet leaders
Booklet (pages
W. 4
Gorbachev’s Role – his background, character, domestic and
21-25)
foreign affairs policies; historiography
(Marples)

Europe. Communism
Role in Collapse of
USSR


4. Deng Era
The Crisis of
Communism in China
5. Why Cold
Overview
War Ended
Historiography

Booklet
Political Actions – Is China Really a Communist State?
(pages 26-28)
Historiography on Reasons for End of Cold War
Booklet (pages
Brainstorm on Reasons for End of Cold War
29-30)


All lessons will
include ‘starters’
as a way of
reinforcement
hangman,
The Deng Era – agricultural and industrial reforms

10% of final
historical-
Look at Relative Reasons for Collapse of USSR

essay is worth
including: splatt,
Summarise role of Reagan, Walesa, Yeltsin et al

weighting =
grade)
Government Appeasement & Clampdown –gap-fill

3. Gorbachev
Solidarity’s Early Demands – spider diagram
S2; total
40%, i.e. each
Eastern Europe
Poland & Solidarity
(part of
continuous
(Pages 6-12)
Reasons & Effects of Czech Revolt Exercise

Communism
W. 5
Gap-fill on
comparisons and
Contrasts
between
Hungarian and
Czech revolts
Writing frames –
complete reasons
for long term
collapse of
Communism;
helps with
synthesis skills
Study for test
Look at role of
individuals for
collapse of
Communism
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
W. 5
Plenary
Exercises
Study for test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) –
THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE (SEMESTER TWO, 2012)
THEME
ASPECT
1. The Superpowers
The Manhattan
& The Bomb
CONTENT & AIMS
RESOURCES
TIME
ASSESSMENT
HOMEWORK.
The Manhattan Project
‘The Shadow
S2
Timed test essay
Worksheet on:
Truman’s motives for Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Makers’ film
Week
on The Nuclear
‘The Shadow
Watch film on Manhattan Project – discussion of its content
Booklet MN
9
Arms Race (part
Makers’
and reliability as evidence
(Page 1)
Various types of US weapon: gravity bombs, neutron
Booklet
Week
assessment
bombs, hydrogen bombs, SLBM’s, ICBM’s, MIRV’s &
(Pages 3-5)
10
weighting
Tactical Weapons mix and match exercise using internet
Internet

Project


Types of Nuclear

Weapons

Powers & the
The Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons


procedure; set
Soviet weapons read & discuss
four essays in S2;
Statistics - questions
total weighting =

2. The Lesser
of continuous
Mix and match exercise on: GB, France, Israel, etc.,
Booklet
Week
40%, i.e. each
Discussion of dangers of proliferation, relate to N. Korea,
(Pages 6-7 )
10
essay is worth
Bomb
10% of final
Iran, etc.
grade)
All lessons will
3. Deterrence
The Theories

Various theories of deterrence, First Strike, Second Strike,
Theories
MAD, etc.
Booklet
(Pages 8-9 )
Week
include ‘starters’
Complete
11
as a way of
unfinished
reinforcement
exercises
Internet
Limitations of deterrence
Week
including: splatt,
Questions on deterrence (using internet site)
11
historical-
The Problems


4. Test Ban Treaties
SALT I & II
Terms of SALT agreements
Booklet
Week

Problems & limits of SALT
(Page 10-11 )
12

Various Test Ban Treaties
Booklet
Wk. 12

Other Agreements
(Page 11)
5. The Impact of the
Impact on
Nuclear Arms Race
superpowers
Who was to blame for the arms race?
Booklet
Wk. 12
Tit for tat exercise
(Page 12-14)
Booklet
Military Industrial Complex – an analysis of Eisenhower’s
Edwards
(pages
speech
(p. 158-161)
13-14)



hangman,
spelling bee,
word searches,
etc.
Plenary Exercises
Practise past
papers questions
(page 15)
Answer
questions - MIC
Study for test
essay
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
THEME
1. The Impact of
WWII
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) –
THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 1945-91 (SEMESTER TWO, 2012)
ASPECT
CONTENT & AIMS
RESOURCES
TIME ASSESSMENT
Economic Impact
on the major
Describe briefly nature of WWII
Booklet (MN)
S2 Wk.
Timed test essay
Glossary
Look at diverse impact of war on the Allied & Axis Powers
(pages 2-3)
13
on The
Exercise
–gap-fill exercise
Pollard (pages
International
Discussion of effects of WWII
1-6, 29-30 &
Economy (part of
Glossary of economic/geographical terminology
113-117)
continuous
Booklet (MN)
assessment


powers


2. Economic Growth
The Reasons for

Reasons for growth. Discuss role of:


Free Trade v.

Create flow
Output & Productivity
(pages 5-10)
Technological Innovation
Pollard &
procedure; set
explain reasons
Industrial & Commercial Organisation
Lundestad
four essays in S2;
for growth



Wk. 13
weighting
Post-WWII Boom
3. Trade Issues
HOMEWORK
Multinationals (the positives & negatives)
total weighting =
The Problems of growth (economic, political,
40%, i.e. each
environmental, social)
essay is worth
10% of final
Definitions of two main terms and their relative strengths
Booklet (MN)
and weaknesses, as well as impact
(page 11)
grade)
Booklet (MN)
include ‘starters’
Complete
(pages 12-13)
as a way of
narrative
Course texts
reinforcement
exercise
Booklet (MN)
including: splatt,
(page 14)
historical-
Look at: S. Korea, HK, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
Booklet (MN)
hangman,
The Case of Japan
(page 15)
spelling bee,
Pollard (p. 48-9)
word searches,
Protectionism
Wk. 14
diagram to
(All lessons will
4. The US Economic
Hegemony
Global
Reasons for US prosperity –True/False exercise as basis for

Dominance
The Decline of US
narrative writing exercise

Conceptual reasons for decline of US economic power
Hegemony
5. The Asian Tigers
Reasons for Far

East’s Success
6. The Development
Globalism and
of International
the
Economic Policies
supra-national
agencies


G7 & GATT –gap-fill based on internet research

Booklet (MN)
Wk. 14
etc.)
Questions on GATT statistics
(pages 16-18)
&
Past Paper Practice
Internet sites:
Plenary Exercises

www.wisegeek.com/
to reinforce
what-is-the-g7.htm
knowledge
Study for Test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 3 (INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1945-91) – THE THIRD WORLD
THEME
ASPECT
CONTENT & AIMS
RESOURCES
TIME ASSESSMENT HOMEWORK
1. De-Colonisation
An overview of
Definition of Third World
Booklet (MN)
S2
Timed test essay
Research
The European empires – how and why they collapsed
(page 2)
Wk.
on The Third
Germany’s
National differences in approach
Betts (pages
15-16
World (part of
colonial losses -
29-33); Thorn
continuous
and who
Look at Paris treaties impact on Germany
Booklet (p. 3)
assessment
benefitted
Earlier & Later Chronology – categorise nations
Lundestad
weighting
(p. 225-245)
procedure; set
Conceptualise the various reasons –helps develop essay
Booklet (p. 4)
four essays in S2;
structuring skills; gap-fill exercise
Texts
total weighting =
Discussion of whether pragmatic or altruistic
(Word box)
40%, i.e. each
Exercise on and discussion of various post-colonial leaders
Booklet (p. 5)
essay is worth
Who was good, bad or ugly?
Lundestad
10% of final
(p. 225-245)
grade)
Booklet (p. 6)
(All lessons will
Lundestad, Thorn
include ‘starters’

the process


Actions


Reasons


Independence

Leaders
The


Look at various points of views: general and nation specific
Historiography
2. The Emergence
of the Third
Conferences et

Exercise on Bandung & discussion of Brandt report
Booklet (p. 7)
Cloud cuckoo land?
Lundestad
al

World
as a way of
reinforcement
including: splatt,
(p.242-3); Betts
historical-
(p.42-3)
NIEO?

Concentrate on a critical evaluation of OPEC
hangman,
(p.8) Lundestad
spelling bee,
(p.242-3) & Betts
word searches,
(p.42-3)
The 1980s
Case study of Africa and its problems and set-backs
Booklet (p.9-10)
Note-taking skills to be developed
Plenary (p. 11)
Creative exercise involving use of imagination and
Booklet (p.9-10)
cross-curricular skills as a way of evaluating whether
Whittaker
foreign-funded infrastructure aid projects really benefit the
(p. 77-9);
recipient nation - or just the provider
Lundestad
Past paper practice
(p. 245-263)


3. International
Development


Complete chart
on Bandung
Conference
OPEC table to
complete
etc.)
&
Wk. 17
Plenary Exercises
to reinforce
knowledge
Complete
development
exercise
Study for test
A Level Paper 3 M. Nichols SCIE 2011-12