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. Causes of the 'boom'
2. The role of Henry Ford in the 'boom'
3. Losers of the 'boom' in 1920s America
4. The Red Scare in 1920s America
5. Racial tension in early 20th century America
6. American society in the 1920s
7. Women and the 'boom' in 1920s America
8. American people and the 'boom' in the 1920s
9. The Wall Street Crash
10. The Great Depression
11. President Hoover and the 1932 presidential election
12. Effects of the Great Depression on American society
13. Roosevelt's New Deal
14. Opposition to the New Deal
15. 1930s American popular culture
16. World War Two and the US economy
17. World War Two and US society
18. American recovery from the Great Depression
19. The American Dream in the 1940s and 1950s
20. Post-war American popular culture
21. McCarthyism and the second Red Scare
22. Change in Post-War America
23. Segregation in the USA
24. Direct action and the Civil Rights Movement
25. Martin Luther King and peaceful protest
26. Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement
27. Civil rights legislation in the 1960s
28. The New Frontier and Great Society
29. The US Feminist Movement in the 1960s and 1970s
30. Social and civil progress in the USA, c.1950-1973

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