Why did Hitler invade the Rhineand? (IGCSE) Why had International Peace Collapsed by 1939?

The focus of this lesson is to build upon the collapse of international peace in the 1930s. The lesson’s purpose is to learn about Hitler’s decision to invade the Rhineland and in the bigger picture of the failures of the 1930s why this was allowed through a series of student led and source evaluation (less teacher talk) tasks.

**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about international relations at the time. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.
Main task 1: Student competition task: Students to engage with a video to introduce the situation and engage in a student led justification task where students must focus upon the decisions of France / Britain / Germany all explained in the PP.
Main Task 2: Students to then engage in a 6 monkeys style activity to outline the ‘story’ of the invasion now that the scene has been set before applying this knowledge to the evaluation of a source of evidence. Students will discuss the source but then engage in a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) activity to form an overall judgment on the purpose of the source.

**All videos embedded / descriptions and prompts included in the PP description. **