Term 3:

·         Crime, Law Enforcement & Punishment in the Middle Ages, c1000-c1500.

·         Crime, Law Enforcement & Punishment in the Early Modern Era, c1500-c1700.

·         Crime, Law Enforcement & Punishment in the Industrial Era, c1700-c1900.

·         Modern Crime, Law Enforcement & Punishment c1900-present.

·         Study of an historic environment – Crime & Policing in Whitechapel c1870-c1900.

Term 2:

·         Elizabethan government and society in 1558 and the early problems for Elizabeth I.

·         The issue of religion in Earl Elizabethan England including the Religious Settlement, winning support for the Settlement and challenges from Puritans and Catholics.

·         Challenges for Elizabeth at home and abroad, including revolts and plots against her and the role of Mary Queen of Scots.

Term 3:

·         Tension and outbreak of war with Spain and English victory over the Spanish Armada.

·         Elizabethan society, education, leisure and the poor.

·         A rise in exploration including the voyages of Drake and Raleigh.

·        Beginnings of the Weimar Republic – Germany after WW1, the Weimar Constitution, Treaty of Versailles, Spartacists vs Freikorps & the Kapp Putsch, the 1923 Hyperinflation.

There are three types of exam question which students will be expected to complete as the Early Elizabethan England course progresses, both in lessons and as homework assignments. Bi-weekly knowledge tests. There will be two full mock exam papers completed, one at the beginning of term 2 and one at the end of term 2, focussing only on the Early Elizabethan element of Paper 2.

There are six types of exam question which students will be expected to complete as the Weimar & Nazi Germany course progresses, both in lessons and as homework assignments. Two of which are similar to those taught earlier in KS4. The additional questions require engagement with historical sources and interpretations. Bi-weekly knowledge tests. There will be one full mock exam paper completed at the end of term 3 in Year 10, and an additional full mock exam paper upon completion of the teaching of Paper 3 during Term 1 of Year 11.

·         The “Golden Twenties” – Stresemann & his solutions, the Rentenmark, Dawes Plan & Young Plan, Improved Foreign Relations – Locarno Pact, League of Nations & Kellogg-Briand Pact, Standard of Living, changing role of women, Weimar Culture.

·         Nazi Early Years, the Munich Putsch, the role of the Wall St Crash and Hitler’s rise to Chancellor.

·         Creation of a Nazi Dictatorship – the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act, the Removal of all Opposition and the Night of the Long Knives.

·         Nazi Control – Terror and the Police State, Propaganda, the Church and Opposition to the Nazis.

·         Life in Nazi Germany – the Role of Women, Youth and Education, the Economy & Standard of Living and Persecution of Minorities.

·         Beginnings of the Cold War – The “Grand Alliance”, post-war Conferences, Soviet Expansion, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid, Cominform and Comecon, the Berlin Blockade and Airlift, the Hungarian Uprising.

Term 2:

·         The Building of the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis, Czechoslovakia and the Prague Springs.

·         Détente during the Cold War, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Carter Doctrine, Reagan and the “Second Cold War”, Gorbachev’s “New Thinking”, the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent Soviet Collapse.

Term 3:

·         Focus on revision and completion of past papers for all modules.

There are three types of exam question which students will be expected to complete as the Superpower Relations course progresses, both in lessons and as homework assignments. Bi-weekly knowledge tests. There will be two full mock exam papers completed, one at the beginning of term 2 and one at the end of term 2, focussing only on the Superpower Relations element of Paper 2.