Subject: Twentieth Century History Unit 1&2

Year Level: 11
Unit 1: 1919-1939
Outcome 1: Inter-war years- politics and economics
Ideology
and Conflict
Week
1
2
3
4

6
7
8
9

Focus
No classes
The end of WWI
Treaties- maps
Ideologies
socialism
communism
fascism
Nazism

Resources/Assessment
KK1- Map activity
USSR

Italy
Germany
Japan
KK2- Ideologies
USA
Britain

democracy
capitalism
militarism
Leading the world into WWII
League of Nations
SAC 1- Historical
interpretation
The Great Depression

KK3- League of Nations

School Holidays

Outcome 2:
Social and
cultural
change

Homework KK1- Great Depression

Interwar years- social and cultural

Curriculum links

Week
10

11
12
13
14

15
16

17
18

Focus
Introduce key words: social,
cultural, propaganda
Revise ideologies
Introduce visual analysis
Primary & Secondary sources
Inference vs. fact
Role of race, class, ethnicity,
political affiliation and gender
in social experience.
Introduction to Jewish
experience- exclusion from
society.
Cultural expression- Art work
reflects on change.
Weimar republic controls this
expression
SAC 2- Image analysis
(Thurs 19th May)
United States under
democracy
Economic growth and decline
Prohibition
Wall Street crash
Mass entertainment
Great Depression
Roaring 20s
Exam revision
Unit 1 EXAM Week

Resources/Assessment

Curriculum links

KK2- Nazi propaganda visual analysis

KK3- Modernist art and the Weimar

republic

Unit 2: 1945-2000
Outcome 1- The Cold War
Competing
Ideologies
Week

Focus

Resources/Assessment

Curriculum links

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13/6-17/6

The Cold War

Significant events- timeline of

events

Yalta conference
Redrawing of borders
Loss of territory and population
Tensions between Stalin and Truman over
Germanys treatment
United Nations
Establishment of goals
human rights and social issues

2
20/6-25/6

Using Evidence

Communism vs capitalism
Dot game

School Holidays
KK1
Space race

Dtente and the second cold

war

(3 lessons)

3
11/7-15/7

4
18/7-22/7

Space race
Nuclear arms race

(2 lessons)

5
25/7-29/7
(3 lessons)
6

Conflict 1
Cuba

Holiday Homework
Origins of the Cold War essay
The Iron Curtain
Churchills speech
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
Propaganda
Sport
Popular culture
Espionage

KK2- The Space Race

Cuban revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDus_RvuJs

Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis

1/8-

Outcomes and consequences for Cuba and for

superpowers

(2 lessons)
7
Conflict 2
8/8-12/8
Vietnam
(3 lessons)

8
15/8-19/8

Guest speakers

(2 lessons)

Introduction to Vietnam War

http://online.clickview.com.au/exchange/videos/
460/the-war-in-vietnam
The domino theory
Reasons for international involvement
The anti-war movement
Outcomes and consequences
http://online.clickview.com.au/exchange/videos/
32008/vietnam
Foreign Correspondent

9
22/8-26/8

The end of the Cold War

How to write bibliographies

(3 lessons)

Shrine Visit- 25/8

10
29/8-2/9

SAC- Historical Inquiry

(Wednesday 31st August &
Thursday 1st September)

KK3- The anti-war movement

Fall of the Berlin Wall
USSR collapse
Detente between USA and USSR
War in Afghanistan
KK4- Practising Historical Inquiry

(2 lessons)
Outcome 2:
Challenge
and change

Apartheid & US Civil Rights Movements

11
5/9-9/9

Reasons for challenging civil

rights

Watching Mississippi Burning

KK1- Mississippi Burning

12
12/9-16/9

School Holidays
13 (Term 4)
3/10-7/10
(3 sessions)

Ku Klux Klan

14
Desegregation
10/10-14/10 Transport
(2 sessions) Education

15
17/10-21/10
(3 sessions)

Apartheid in South
Africa

Forms of protest/reactions
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Freedom Rides
Brown vs Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
KK2- Civil Rights Research activity
Trevor Noah:
https://vimeo.com/130619176
Video: The History of Slavery every year
Video: Apartheid Explained
Africa challenge- map- name as many countries
as you can
Amandla! Documentary
ANC Scavenger hunt- www.anc.org.za

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24/10-28/10
(2 sessions)
17
31/10-4/11
(3 sessions)
18
7/11-11/11
(2 sessions)
19
14/11-18/11

SAC- Essay Wednesday

2nd and Friday 4th
November
Exam revision
UNIT 2 EXAM WEEK