This is a series of lessons that covers Core content: Option B The twentieth century: international relations from 1919 This is the Cambridge iGCSE History (CIE) • Each lesson starts with five recall questions that are self assess (answers are on the next slide) • The lessons cover the spec for Core Content B, Cambridge iGCSE, for exams in 2024, 2025, and 2026 • Clear learning objectives in each lesson. • NO TEXTBOOK is required for these lessons, but that does occasionally you need to print the materials that come with the lessons. Lessons included: 1 Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? 1.1 aims of the Big Three 1.2 Treaty of Versailles 1.3 Political impact of ToV on Germany 1.4 Economic and social impact of ToV on Germany 1.5 Contemporary opinions about ToV 2 To what extent was the League of Nations a success 2.1 Structure of the League of Nations 2.2 Success and failures of the LoN 2.3 LoN’s humanitarian work 2.4a Manchuria (events and causes) 2.4b Manchuria (consequences) 2.4c Manchuria source questions 2.5a Abyssinian Crisis (events and causes) 2.5b Abyssinian Crisis Abyssinian consequences 2.5c Abyssinian source Qs 3 How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939? 3.1 Hitler’s Aims in foreign policy 3.2 Rhineland, Saar and rearmament 3.3 Spanish Civil War and Anti-Conmintern Pact 3.4 Appeasement and Rome-Berlin Axis 3.5 Anschluss 3.6 Sudetenland and Munich Agreement 3.7 Nazi-Soviet Pact 3.8 Why did peace collapse? 4 Who was to blame for the Cold War? 4.1 End of WW2 4.2 Yalta 4.3 Potsdam 4.4 Soviet expansion 4.5 USA’s reaction to Soviet expansion 4.6Berlin blockade and airlift 4.7 NATO and Warsaw 4.8 Who was to blame for the Cold War? 5 How effectively did the United States contain the spread of communism? 5.1 Causes of the Korean War 5.2 Events of the Korean War 5.3 Cuban Crisis 5.4 consequences of the Cuban Crisis 5.5 Vietnam 5.6 Involvement in Vietnam war 5.7 Events of the Vietnam War 5.8 Causes of the Vietnam War 5.9 Summary of Vietnam 6 How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989? 6.1 Hungary 6.2 Resistance Czechoslovakia 6.3 Comparing and contrasting resistance in Hungary and Czechoslovakia 6.4 Berlin Wall 6.5 Poland and solidarity 6.6 Gorbachev

This is a series of 24 lessons that covers the iGCSE Edexcel paper 1 Germany: development of a dictatorship. Where there is a relevant previous exam question, it has been included at the end of the lesson, including the mark scheme: 1.1 Establishment of Weimar Republic (1a. June 2022 a) 1.2 Reactions to the ToV (1a. November 2021 a) 1.3 Challenges from the left and right (1. November 2020 ci) 1.4 Economic problems and Ruhr (1. June 2019 a) 1.5 Hyperinflation (1a. June 2021 ci) 2.1 Stresemann at home (1r. November 2020 a) 2.2 Stresemann abroad (1. June 2019 b; 1. November 2020 b; 1a November 2021 ci) 2.3 How stable was the Weimar Republic 3.1 Hitler’s early career in politics 3.2 Munich Putsch (1a. November 2021 b) 3.3 Reorganisation of the Nazi Party, 1924-28 (1. June 2019 ci) 3.4 Great Depression (1a. June 2021 cii) 3.5 Nazi methods to win support & the role of the SA (1. November 2020 cii) 3.6 Events from 1932 to January 1933 (1a. June 2022 ci) 4.1 Steps to dictatorship 4.2a Nazi methods of control 4.2b Propaganda and censorship (1a. November 2021 (cii)) 4.3 Social policies (1a. June 2021 a; 1a. June 2022 b) 4.4 Nazi racial policies (1r. November 2020 b) 4.5 Unemployment (1. June 2019 cii) 5.1 Nazi policies towards Jews 5.2 The Home Front (1. June 2021 b; 1a June 2022 cii) 5.3 Opposition to Hitler (1. November 2020 a; 1r November 2020 cii) 5.4 Hitler’s death and the end of the Third Reich Each lesson begins with five recall questions that are self assessed using the answers on the next slide. Included is a Personalised learning checklist. The spec is broken down into its smaller parts. Students can then RAG rate them. You will be able to see where topics align to exam questions on this document. There are three learning objectives for each lesson. These are displayed at the bottom of each slide. I have used the published textbook. If you don’t have it, you can easily swap out the page numbers for a different one. Textbook you need: Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History Development of Dictatorship: Germany 1918-45 Student Book *ISBN: 978-0435185381

This is a unit of lessons that iGCSE Edexcel History. This is for paper 2 and is (A2) Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-24. The unit has been squeezed into 24 lessons. Where there is a relevant exam question, it has been included at the end of the lesson with the mark scheme: 1.1 Tsarist rule in Russia 1.2 1905 Revolution 1.2 exam questions (2a June 2021,a & 2r June 2019, c) 1.3 The first four dumas 1.4 Stolypin’s & Goldfield (2. 20 Nov a & 2a Nov 21, a) 2.1 Effects of WW1 on Russia 2.2 Influence of Rasputin 2.3a February Revolution - 2 lessons 2.3b army mutiny, Abdication & government (2a. June 2021, a) 3.1a Problems with the provisional government (2a June 2022, b&c) 3.1b the impact of the Petrograd Soviet 3.2a Lenin and the Bolsheviks (2r. June 2019, a) 3.2b Kornilov Revolt 3.3a Reasons for the success of the Bolsheviks 3.3b Lenin and Trotsky (2AR. June 2022, b&c) 4.1a Decrees and assembly (2. Nov 2020, Qa) 4.1b Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (2a. June 2021, b&c) 4.2 Sides and events of the Civil War (2AR. June 2022, a) 4.3 Reasons for the Bolshevik victory 5.1 War communism 5.2 The Kronstadt Naval Mutiny (2r. November 2020, a) 5.3a New economic policy 5.3b Opposition to the NEP (2. Nov 2020, Qb ;2a. June 2022, a) 5.4 Lenin’s achievements to 1924 Each lesson begins with five recall questions that are self assessed on the next slide. There are three learning objectives for each lesson. These are displayed at the bottom of each slide. This Unit of work uses the textbook that has been published by the exam board. Title: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: The Soviet Union in Revolution, 1905–24 Student Book ISBN: 978-0435185435

These lessons have been designed to be easy to follow. Lessons follow the AQA (BA) Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894–1918 , and include the following 26 lessons Part one: The causes of the First World War 1.01 The alliance system (2022, Q3) 1.02 Moroccan Crises (S1, Q3) 1.03 Crisis in the Balkans (2018, Q3) 1.04 Splendid isolation 1.05 Wilhelm foriegn policy (2022, Q1) 1.06 European rearmament 1.07 Slav nationalism and Austro-Serbian rivalry 1.08 Assassination 1.09 July Crisis 1.10 cause of WW1 Part two: The First World War: stalemate 2.01 Schlieffen Plan & Belgium 2.02 Trenches and Marne (2020, Q3) 2.03 military tactics and technology 2.04 Verdun 2.5 Somme (S2, Q2) 2.06 Passchendaele 2.07 Haig 2.8 Gallipoli (2018, Q1) 2.09 War at sea Part three: Ending the war 3.01 Russia leaves (2019, Q1) 3.02 USA enters WW1 (S2, Q1) 3.03 tactics and technology (2019, Q2) 3.04 Ludendorff Offensive (2021, Q4; S2, Q3) 3.05 Hundred Days 3.06 end of WW1 (2022, Q2) 3.07 Cause of Germany’s defeat (2018, Q2; 2020, Q4) The lessons use the Oxford Conflict and Tension: First World War 1894-1918 book (9780198429005); HOWEVER, there is an alternative for every time the textbook has been included. You will just need to print the reading sheets. The lesson clearly displays where an exam question has been used and includes the mark scheme. All comprehension activities have the answers included on the next slide. Lessons include links to YouTube for engagement.