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Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972

Block 3

This is the third block in a two year GCSE course. During this block we will conclude our study of Germany and begin the next topic, Conflict and Tension between East and West.

GCSE History is an engaging and challenging subject that is both interesting and useful for building skills such as: analysis, evaluation and written communication.

This block we will conclude our first topic: Germany 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship by exploring Nazi persecution of particular groups, with a focus on the Jewish community and the Holocaust of 1942-1945.

We will then consider the forms of opposition to the system in Nazi Germany, from the subtle to the outright, concluding our study with some exam skills focus.

During the final three lessons of this block, we will introduce the second topic in our GCSE History course: Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972.

This topic focuses on the Cold War between the USA and USSR, and we will introduce the course by considering how the Cold War was born out of the Second World War.

We will examine the differing political ideologies of the USA and USSR, and the initial events in 1945 which created a sense of competition and conflict between the superpowers.

We will focus primarily on the wartime conferences and the USA's use of the atomic bomb in August 1945.

Course Objectives:

LO1: To evaluate the claim that the Holocaust was inevitable when the Nazi Party came to power in 1933.

LO2: To evaluate the types of opposition that existed in Nazi Germany and how effective they were.

LO3: To practice exam-style questions and recap knowledge of the Germany topic.

LO4: To explain the links between the conclusion of the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.

LO5: To describe differing political ideologies of the USA and USSR.

LO6: To analyse the role played by the wartime conferences and use of the atomic bomb in creating the Cold War.

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