KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge and understanding of multiple substantive concepts that they developed throughout all key stages to this point. This unit prepares pupils for any later study of a modern society in depth by way of allowing pupils to form a comparison with the one studied here.

1. The First World War and the German Revolution
2. The Weimar Republic
3. Early unrest and the Treaty of Versailles
4. Threats to the Weimar Republic from the left and the right
5. 1923, the Ruhr and hyperinflation
6. Economic recovery under Stresemann
7. Stresemann's international achievements
8. Social and economic change 1924-29
9. Weimar culture 1924-29
10. The early development of the NSDAP
11. The Munich Putsch
12. The NSDAP's 'lean years'
13. The growth of unemployment and rise in support for the Communist Party
14. The growth in support for the Nazi Party
15. How Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
16. The Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act
17. Hitler's creation of a dictatorship
18. Nazi control of the police and the legal system
19. The Nazi Party and religion
20. Goebbels and propaganda in Nazi Germany
21. Opposition and resistance in Nazi Germany
22. Women in Nazi Germany
23. Young people in Nazi Germany
24. Employment in Nazi Germany
25. Work and life in Nazi Germany
26. Nazi racial ideology and the treatment of minorities
27. The persecution of the Jews

• A working knowledge of the broad local, national and international developments that occurred in the centuries preceding the period being studied.