Year 10 GCSE History

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Year 10 GCSE History
Course details Examination board OCR 1937
syllabus B Modern World History Coursework
requirements Two pieces of coursework
Both pieces will be on Russia
1905-1941 Up to 2000 words each These
will be undertaken in Year 11 (25) Final
papers Paper 1 (45) Core international relations
and chosen depth study (Germany) Paper 2
(30) Source evaluation on How did British
society change, 1906-18
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Year 10 GCSE History

• Key work to complete in Year 10
• In Year 10 we concentrate on 3 key questions from
  the core content on International Relations
  focusing on the inter-war period 1919-1939. In
  addition to these we also study the British depth
  study for paper two
• Autumn term
• 1.Were the Peace treaties of 1919-23 fair?
• Focus points
• What were the motives and aims of the Big three
  at Versailles?
• Why did all of the victors not get everything
  they wanted?
• What was the immediate impact of the peace treaty
  on Germany up to 1923?
• Could the treaties be justified at the time?

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Year 10 GCSE History

• Specified content
• The peace treaties of 1919-23 (Versailles, St
  Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sevres and Lausanne)
• The role of individuals such as Wilson,
  Clemenceau and Lloyd George in the peace making
  process
• The impact of the treaties on the defeated
  countries
• Contemporary opinions about the treaties

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Year 10 GCSE History

• Spring Term
• 2.To what extent was the League of Nations a
  success?
• Focus Points
• How successful was the League in the 1920s?
• How far did the weaknesses in the Leagues
  organisation make failure inevitable?
• How far did the Depression make the work of the
  League more difficult?
• How successful was the League in the 1930s?
• Specified content
• The League of Nations
• Strengths and Weaknesses in its structure and
  organization
• Successes and failure in peacekeeping during the
  1920s
• The impact of the World Depression on the work of
  the League after 1929

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Year 10 GCSE History

• The failures of the League during the 1930s
  Manchuria and Abyssinia
• Summer Term
• Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
• Focus points
• What were the long-term consequences of the peace
  treaties of 1919-23?
• What were the consequences of the failures of the
  League in the 1930s?
• How far was Hitlers foreign policy to blame for
  outbreak of war in 1939?
• Was the policy of appeasement justified?
• How important was the Nazi-Soviet pact?
• Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany
  in 1939?

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Year 10 GCSE History

• Specified content
• The collapse of the international order in the
  1930s
• The increasing militarism of Germany
• Italy and Japan
• Hitlers foreign policy to 1939
• The Saar
• Remiliterisation of the Rhineland
• Austria
• Czechslovakia and Poland
• Appeasement and the outbreak of War in 1939

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Year 10 GCSE History

• How did British society change 1906-1918
• Autumn term
• 1.Liberal welfare reforms
• Focus points
• Why did the Liberal government introduce reforms
  to help the young, old and unemployed?
• What was the nature of the reforms they
  introduced?
• How effective were the reforms they introduced?
• What was the reaction of the people at the time?
• Spring term
• How was Britain organised for the war?
• Focus points
• How were civilians affected by the war?

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Year 10 GCSE History

• The defence of the realm and its impact
• Rationing
• Recruitment and conscription
• Government censorship and propaganda
• Summer term
• 3.The role of women during the period
• Focus points
• What were the arguments for and against female
  suffrage?
• How effective were the activities of the
  suffragists and suffragettes?
• How did women contribute to the war effort and
  how important was their contribution?
• Why were some women given the vote in 1918?

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Year 10 GCSE History

• Synopsis How were British people affected by all
  this change?
• Specified content
• Reasons for the Liberal reforms poverty in 1906
• The Childrens charter, old age pensions 1909,
  Labour exchanges 1909, The National Insurance Act
  1911
• The arguments for and against female suffrage,
  the WSPU and the NUWSS- their leaders, activities
  and the reactions of the authorities
• Women in employment during WW1, the 1918
  Representation of the People Act
• Recruiting,
• New Government powers DORA, 1914, conscription
  rationing, use of propaganda, and their impact on
  civilian life, mood of the British people at the
  end of the war and different attitudes about what
  should happen to Germany

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Year 10 GCSE History

• To maximise success in Year 10 pupils must
• Ensure that all their notes are complete.
• Peruse past GCSE questions done as H/W. You must
  attempt to research information to create a
  better answer
• Familiarise themselves with the different levels
  at which they will be graded, the aim being to
  design answers befitting the higher levels
• Create a bank of historical words and phrases
  for each of the two topic areas learn these
  words and their correct spellings by heart
• Write a list of questions they have about any
  aspects of their study they are unsure of, so
  that they may present staff with them when we
  come to revise

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Year 10 GCSE History

• Possible Parental support
• Provide a quiet study area
• Be aware of the History Departments methods of
  marking and school assessment criteria
• Check you son/daughters presentation of work
• Check spelling and grammar
• Look frequently in your son/daughters planner to
  see H/W is done
• Provide additional reading materials by accessing
  books from a library / material from the net
• Give your son/daughter access to appropriate TV
  programmes
• Buy a study A4 ring binder to organise notes
  effectively
• Look at the school website http//home.queensbridg
  e.bham.sch.uk/?_id376
• for updates and information

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Year 10 GCSE History
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