YEAR 11 OPEN EVENING

Year 10

Year 11

1.A Divided Union: USA 1941-1980:

Through the content specified below, candidates should develop an overview of the following: The growth and influence of the US economy; social and cultural divisions and their importance; political attitudes and divisions in the USA.

Topics:

The impact of the Second World War on the US economy and society. Impact of WW2 on  McCarthyism and the ‘red scare’.

1. The Civil Rights movements and their impact on US society.

2. ‘New Frontier’, ‘Great Society’: the roles of Kennedy and Johnson.

3. Protest movements in the 1960s and early 1970s. Women, Black Power, Students

4. The Watergate scandal and its impact.

Through the content specified below, candidates should develop an overview of the following:the impact of the breakdown of wartime alliances; the struggle for worldwide supremacy; detente and the new order

Topics:

1. Origins of the Cold War and the partition of Germany.

2. The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Soviet response.

3. NATO and the Warsaw Pact;

4. the arms race.

5. The nature of Cold War: Berlin; Hungary; Cuba; Berlin Blockade

6. Detente: Cuba to Afghanistan, and the roles of Reagan and Gorbachev;

7. The end of the Cold War.

2.The Russian Revolution c.1910–1924:

This study will focus on: the impact of the war on Tsarist Russia; the events of 1917; the impact of Bolshevik rule.

Topics:

1. Russia before the First World War: politics, society and the economy.

2. Opposition to Tsarist rule: Liberals, Socialists and Socialist Revolutionaries.

3. Impact of the First World War on Russian government and society.

4. 1917: reasons for the fall of the Tsar and the collapse of the Provisional Government.

5. The nature of the Bolshevik takeover;

6. the roles of Lenin and Trotsky.

7. Bolshevik rule and its impact, 1918–24: the Civil War.

4. Conflict in Vietnam 1954-1974:

This study will focus on: reasons for US intervention in Vietnam; why the USA was defeated; the impact of the war on the USA and Indo-China.

Topics:

1. Reasons for US involvement in Vietnam.

2. The nature of the conflict: guerrilla warfare;

3. Operation Rolling Thunder;

4. The Tet offensive.

5. The impact of the war on the peoples of Vietnam and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.

6. Reasons for the US defeat.

7. The reunification of Vietnam.

8. Consequences for the USA of its failure in Vietnam.