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The Beaconsfield School A specialist Arts College

History at Key Stage 4

Topic Assessment Details Overall % of Final grade
Year 10 & Year 11 Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 1hr 20mins 30% Modern Depth Study

Medicine in Britain c 1250 to present

 

The British sector Western Front, 1914-18; surgery and treatment

1hr 15mns 30% British Thematic Study with Historic Environment
Early Elizabethan England 1558-88 1hr 45mins 40% Period Study and British Depth Study
The American West, c1835-1895

All examinations are taken at the end of Year 11

 Revision

 

Germany 1919-1939 (Red revision booklet contains all of the below. All yr 11s have a copy)

Kaiser Wilhelm I

Treaty of Versailles

 

The problems of the Weimar Republic

3 Putsch/ Uprisings: Spartacist, Kapp and Munich

 

1923 – 3 Crises: Ruhr, Hyperinflation and the Munich Putsch

Stresemann: Young Plan, Dawes Plan, Locarno Treaty, League of Nations and the Rentenmark

 

The Golden Age and Culture

 

Nazi Change in tactics

 

The Depression 1929…

 

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Hitler becomes dictator: Reichstag Fire, The Enabling Act, The Night of the Long Knives.

 

Nazi policies towards: Young, Church, Women.

Opposition to the Nazis

 

Nazi Propaganda

 

Persecution of: Jews, Disabled, Gypsies…

 

Kristallnacht 1939

 

Nazi Economy: Schacht, Goering,4 Year Plan, unemployment

 

Medicine Through Time (Yellow revision booklet contains all of the below.  All yr 11s have a copy)

Ancient Greek:  Hippocrates and Galen

The Middle Ages

The Renaissance: Vesalius, Harvey 

The Industrial Revolution & Public Health:  Jenner, Lister, Nightingale, Chadwick, Simpson, Pasteur, Koch 

The Modern Period: Fleming, Ehrlich, Beveridge, Bevan

The Transformation of surgery  19th & 20th Century

The issues of pain, blood loss and infection

 

Anaesthetics: Humphrey Davy and Laughing Gas

                          Simpson  and chloroform

                         Patients: Hannah Green and Queen Victoria.

 

1846-1870 the Black Period of surgery

Semmelweiss and hand washing

Pasteur’s Germ Theory

Joseph Lister & carbolic spray (antiseptics)

 

William Halsted – rubber gloves

 

World War One’s influence:  Sodium Citrate, X-Rays , FANYs

 

World War Two’s influence:  Fleming  (Florey and Chain) and Penicilin, McIndoe and burns, 

 

20th Century discoveries.