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HISTORY DEPARTMENT

G.C.S.E.

CONTENTS:

Nazi Germany

Britain in 1940 - The Blitz (Year 10 Coursework)

China 1900 - 1980

The USA 1941-1980

The Vietnam War

The 1960s in Britain (Year 11 coursework)

Revision Sites and Exam Technique

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An Introduction to the GCSE course (W A Boyce)

Nazi Germany

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Nazi Germany - An Overview (J Edwards)

Nazis - all topics (historylearning.co.uk)

Weimar and Nazis - links to various topics (learnhistory.org.uk)

Germany after World War One Power-point (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Hitler's Life up to 1933 Power-point (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Nazi Ideology ideas from Mein Kampf (W Boyce)

Hitler's Rise to Power Power-point (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

How did Hitler become Chancellor? ROLE-PLAY (P Letters)

See if you could you make Hitler dictator of Germany:

Consolidating Power Decision Game (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Hitler's Consolidation of Power PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Rise of the Nazis Role-play (E Springate)

The Night of the Long Knives PowerPoint (J Edwards)

SA Source Questions PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Terror PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Youth Policies

Anti-semitism Timeline (historyonthenet.com)

Nazi Racial Policies PowerPoint (W Boyce)

Unemployment in the 1930s PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Nazi Propaganda PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Foreign Policy PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Foreign Policy Decision Game (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Martin Bormann PowerPoint

Revision:

Nazi Revision PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

Revising Nazi Germany - Schoolshistory.co.uk

Overview of Nazi Germany with revision quizzes

Nazi Germany - BBC Bitesize Revision

Games and quizzes:

Interview Adolf Hitler (activehistory.co.uk)

Weimar Germany Quiz - 'Fling the Teacher'

Games and Quizzes (activehistory.co.uk)

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Britain in 1940 - The Blitz (Year 10 Coursework)

World War II overview (JE Edwards)

Outbreak of war 1939-40 (WA Boyce)

Q1: Why did Germany bomb British cities? (WA Boyce)

Q2: The Effects of the Blitz (WA Boyce)

Q3: Propaganda and Censorship (WA Boyce)

Propaganda posters (WA Boyce)

BLITZ COURSEWORK HELP

A list of articles:

BBC articles

Very useful on ‘The Blitz’:

Blitz - eyewitnesstohistory.com

Timeline:

Thinkquest.org

This site is about ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ (William Joyce). He broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany to the UK:

Historylearningsite.co.uk - Lord Haw Haw

The Home Front Fling the teacher! (activehistory.co.uk)

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China 1900 - 1980

China - all topics (History Learning Site)

China - various topics (BBC)

China 1900-49

China in 1900 (WA Boyce)

1911 Revolution and Yuan Shi Kai (WA Boyce)

Warlords (WA Boyce)

May 4th Movement (WA Boyce)

Fall of Imperial China PowerPoint ( Island School )

China 1911-1949 PowerPoint (Island School)

China Timeline- 1900-1927 (WA Boyce)

China 1900-1930 PowerPoint (WA Boyce)

Worksheet to go with China 1900-1930 PowerPoint (P Letters)

Long March Game Matthew Teague, Matthew Yam & Elson Tong. Can you turn Mr Edwards into Hugh Grant?

Rise of Japan and World War II PowerPoint (K Angwin)

Rape of Nanjing 1937 (CNN)

Rape of Nanjing (BBC)

China 1945-1949 PowerPoint (E Springate)

Mao - a biography

Policies Towards Women (WA Boyce)

Farming Reforms (WA Boyce)

The Great Leap Forward

Five Year Plans and Industry PowerPoint (W Boyce)

Great Leap Forward - a definition (factmonster.com)

Great Leap Forward (History Learning Site)

Great Leap Forward Propaganda Posters

The Hundred Flowers

One-Party State Spider-diagram (W A Boyce)

Hundred Flowers PowerPoint (W A Boyce)

The Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution - a definition (factmonster.com)

Introduction to the Cultural Revolution (History Learning Site)

Cultural Revolution and other links

Cultural Revolution (thinkquest)

WEBQUEST: Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution (about.com)

Cultural Revolution

The Cult of Mao posters (P Letters)

Mao Posters website

Student Powerpoints:

NEW! Y10 Maoist Propaganda Posters

Mao and the Cultural Revolution

Gang of Four

Moderate View of the Cultural Revolution

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The USA 1941-1980

US Political System (A Tsui)

Overview site looking at ALL topics studied from the impact of war to Watergate

McCarthy ppt (W A Boyce)

Martin Luther King (stanford.edu)

Selma March for Voting Rights PowerPoint (P Letters)

Student Protest (Walsh, Modern World History)

Women's Movement (Walsh, Modern World History)

JFK PowerPoint (P Letters)

LBJ PowerPoint (P Letters)

JFK and Johnson (About 20th Century History)

JFK and Johnson (LearnHistory.org)

JFK and LBJ worksheet

USA in the 1960s (E Springate)

Quizes:

Divided Union - Penalty Shootout (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

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The Vietnam War

US Political System (A Tsui)

Timeline

Map of Vietnam (E Springate)

Images of Vietnam PowerPoint (E Springate)

Ho Chi Minh Profile Sheet (E Springate)

Well illustrated introductions, from learnhistory.org.uk, to:

Why did the USA go to war in Vietnam?

US tactics

Vietnamese tactics

Americans turn against the war

Reasons for the US Defeat

Tactics:

Particularly good on guerrilla tactics, Vietcong and the air war (bombing):

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html

My Lai Massacre:

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/mylai.htm

Guerrilla warfare:

http://homepage.mac.com/stray/ib/history/guerilla-terrorism.html

Helicopters:

http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csa/aadesc.htm

Agent Orange:

http://www.lewispublishing.com/faq.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Problems US soldiers faced:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/weapons.html

War of attitrition/casualties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Casualties

Opposition to the war/Vietnamese people’s ‘Hearts and Minds’:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Opposition_to_the_War

Other sites:

Useful reference site (spartacus.co.uk)

http://sophia.smith.edu/~abloomga/Breorweb01/warstudy/VIETNAM.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/vietnam/welcome-home.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/weapons.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mia.html

Useful links on Vietnam War