KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on all of the historical knowledge that pupils have built across key stages 1 to 4 up to this point. It makes particular use of any units in which pupils constructed or deconstructed historical narratives. This unit prepares pupils for their final key stage 4 unit where their knowledge of broad period events is complemented by a specific depth study.

1. Parliamentary government and Prussian militarism
2. Industrialisation, social reform and the growth of socialism
3. The Navy Laws
4. The First World War and the German Revolution
5. The Weimar Republic
6. Early unrest and the Treaty of Versailles
7. The putsches of 1919-23
8. 1923, the Ruhr and hyperinflation
9. Economic recovery under Stresemann
10. Stresemann's international achievements
11. Weimar culture 1924-29
12. The growth of unemployment and rise in support for the Communist Party
13. The growth in support for the Nazi Party
14. How Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
15. The Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act
16. Hitler's creation of a dictatorship
17. The Nazi police state
18. The Nazi Party and religion
19. Goebbels and propaganda in Nazi Germany
20. Opposition and resistance to Hitler and the Nazi Party
21. Women in Nazi Germany
22. Young people in Nazi Germany
23. Employment in Nazi Germany
24. Work and life in Nazi Germany
25. The Nazi economy and WW2
26. Nazi racial ideology and the treatment of minorities
27. The persecution of the Jews
28. The Final Solution

• A thorough grounding in substantive concepts commonly found across key stages 1, 2 and 3. For example, 'monarchy', 'empire', 'international relations', 'conflict' and 'faith'.