History at GCSE

Specification: AQA GCSE Modern World History

History is a very highly successful subject in the Academy. The course offers a fascinating journey through the most extraordinary century which has so much to tell that is relevant to the world today.

An ever more important subject with the arrival of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).

Unit 1: International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the 20th Century;

The Origins of the First World War: Why did the first great and terrible industrial war happen?
Peacemaking 1918–1919 and the League of Nations: How did the nations of the world try to prevent any further war? How and why did they fail?
Hitler’s foreign policy and the origins of the Second World War: How did the actions of Nazi Germany cause a second great and even more terrible industrial war to happen?

Unit 2: Politics and Government: A 20th Century Depth Studies

The Roaring 20s: USA, 1919–1929: What was the story of the growth of the greatest economy in the world? How did it’s society change as a result?
Hitler’s Germany, 1929–1939: How did Nazi Germany fall under Hitler’s dictatorship? Who benefited? Who suffered?
Depression and the New Deal : The USA, 1929–1941: How did the U.S.A. deal with the economic catastrophe that struck it in 1929?

Unit 3: An Historical Enquiry into British History

The British People in War – A study of British society in Total War
Britain at War – How was Britain altered by World War?

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