Year 10

Revision +

Quizzes

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: Click on the links for revision diagrams.

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

2. Powerpoint on the impact of WW2 on America

3. The Civil Rights movements and their impact on US society. Bob Dylan's protest song - 'Oxford Town' - Martin Luther King ICT task

4. ‘New Frontier’, ‘Great Society’: the roles of Kennedy and Johnson. Look at this excellent Powerpoint on President Kennedy from Frogmore College History Department

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

6. The Watergate scandal and its impact.

7. Revision Powerpoint covering Black Civil Rights, Women, Youth Protest, and Kennedy

8. A Revision Timeline of the USA Divided

9. Another Revision Timeline

10. Excellent site on American Civil Rights

Revision Podcasts - Impact of WW2 - Civil Rights and New Frontier -

McCarthyism - Johnson

Specimen Paper

with answers

1. Montgomery Bus Boycott
2. Malcolm X
3. Student/Women Protest
4. IT Task

1. USA in WW2
2. Civil Rights 1
3. Civil Rights 2

4. McCarthyism

Try these practice papers

1. USA Practice paper 1

2. USA Practice Paper 2

3. USA Practice Paper 3
4. Cold War Practice

Coursework: [1] The Normandy Landings

Resources:

1.Coursework Notes - Use these if you lose the ones we gave  you.

2.Contemporary video - Watch a newsreel from the time.

3. Some interactive maps and animations of the D Day Landings - Animation 1 (This comes from the BBC History website)- Map 1 (This comes from the BBC History website)

Map 2 (this shows details of the Canadian Landings) - Audio material - Listen to the memories of people involved with D day

4. Helpful Powerpoints:-

[a] An introduction to World War 2

[b] Help for Question 1  Read the link that follows for help with this question - Why did the British take part in Operation Overlord?

[c] Help for Question 2  Read these links to help with this question - D Day Deception - Mulberry Harbour - Hobart's Funnies

[d] Help for Question 3

If you want to see if your coursework is going along the right lines email your first drafts to me here:- Email

Year 10

Revision +

Quizzes

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: Click on the links for revision diagrams

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

2. Opposition to Tsarist rule: 1905 Revolution; 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. 1917: Who ruled after the Tsar?

6. The nature of the Bolshevik takeover;

7. the roles of Lenin and Trotsky.

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

Revision Podcasts - Causes of the Revolution - Lenin and the Bolsheviks

1. Introduction
2. Excellent revision Powerpoint