This unit is an in depth study of Nazi Germany in the years 1933 – 39. It examines how Hitler established the legal foundations for his dictatorship and put in place methods of propaganda to influence attitudes and remove any opposition. It also explores changes in the lives of German citizens, considers the racial policies of the Nazis and looks at the persecution of Jews and other minority groups in Germany.
Exam style assessments:
• Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933 – 39
Prison for political prisoners and enemies of the state, who are placed there without trial.
The law that gave Hitler the power to rule for four years without consulting the Reichstag.
Organisation set up by the Nazis to control German workers.
Official secret police of the Nazi regime.
A densely populated area of a city inhabited by a particular ethnic group, such as Jews.
Bringing people into an identical way of thinking and behaving.
Organisation set up for the young in Germany to convert them to Nazi ideas.
Converting people to your ideas using education and propaganda.
Opposition to a government, invading power etc without using violence.
'security service', the intelligence agency of the Nazis.
The people's community. This was the Nazi idea of a community based upon the German race.
Pupils exploring the treatment and persecution of minorities in Hitler’s Germany.
Students will study the early tensions between East and West as World war Two draws to a close. They will study the ideological differences between the superpowers and their leaders Stalin, Truman and Churchill. They will then go on to study the development of the Cold War into the 1940s with a focus on Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, 1947. The significance of Cominform (1947), Comecon (1949) and the formation of NATO (1949). As the Cold War intensifies in the 1950s students will continue to develop their understanding of the events in 1956 leading to the Hungarian Uprising, and Khrushchev’s response. Students will then study the period 1958-71 where students will be considering how the Cold War intensifies, with the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A country or state that has a great power and influence globally
Region of the world in which one state is dominant.
Using US influence and military resources to prevent the expansion of communism into non-communist countries.
Countries under the domination of a foreign power.
US President Truman's idea that it was the USA's duty to prevent the spread of Communism to eastern Europe and the rest of the world.
Someone who fights in a guerilla war.
The use of ambushes, raids, sabotage and hit and rub by a smaller group of combatants against larger and more traditional military forces.
fighting in small groups against conventional forces using such methods as sabotage, sudden ambush.
Highly destructive explosive device that gets its power from nuclear weapons.
An explosive weapon of enormous destructive power.
Pupils will understand different political ideologies and how in history this has caused conflict.
Students will start the term studying the attempts to reduce tension between East and West in the 1970s. With a specific focus on Détente in the 1970s, SALT 1, Helsinki, SALT 2. Students will then start developing their understanding of the Second Cold War with the significance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Raegan's Strategic Defence Initiative. The unit will come to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Control in Eastern Europe. The significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end to the Warsaw Pact.
Elimination of the influence of Stalin.
Soviet foreign policy which called for military intervention by Warsaw Pact forces if another member of the Warsaw Pact tried to leave the Soviet sphere of influence or moderate socialism.
An attempt to reduce the tension between the USA and the Soviet Union.
A series of agreements ccoveing a range of global issues made by 35 nations at the Conference on Security and cooperation in Europe in 1975.
Agreement signed in 1991 by President Bush and Gorbachev, stating that both the USA and the Soviet Union would undertake to reduce their strategic nuclear forces over the next seven years.
To withdraw, reduce or abolish military weapons and force.
President Carter announced in January 1980 that the USA was prepared to use military force to protect its oil interest in the Persian Gulf region.
The US name for conscription. It was compulsory for men who reached the age of 18 to serve in the armed forces.
The idea that in a nuclear war specific targets could be identified, thereby limiting destruction. It gave rise to the idea that there could be a victor in a nuclear weapon.
The name given to Gorbachev's policy for economic restructuring.
The name given to Gorbachev's policy of openness encouraging free expression and an end to censorship.
A sudden seizure of power from a government.
To understand the impact different ideologies can have an impact on the world in history and today.
Revision of all topics covered in Papers 1-3
The study of post 1929 living and working conditions in Germany as a reason for the growing popularity of extremist politics.
Revision of all topics covered in Papers 1-3