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11–12Modern History 11–12 Syllabus

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Content

Year 12

Core study: Democracy and dictatorship 1919–1939

Through a focus on the nature of political authority between 1919 and 1939, students investigate the rise of authoritarian, fascist and militarist movements after the First World War, what drew people to these movements, and the regimes that emerged.

Through a study of Germany, students develop an understanding of how a democracy can collapse, the impact of dictatorship on a society, the elimination of individual freedoms, and the threats that dictatorships can pose to peace and security.

When investigating content in the Source analysis content group, students analyse and interpret a range of sources as evidence for the Nazi regime in power from 1933 to 1939.

The historical concepts and skills content is to be integrated as appropriate.

Context
  • The Paris Peace Conference and its consequences

Interwar dictatorships
  • Conditions that enabled dictators to rise to power in the interwar period

  • Key features of TWO dictatorships other than Germany that emerged in the interwar period

The collapse of German democracy
  • Political, economic and social challenges to the Weimar Republic 1919–1933

  • Reasons for the collapse of the Weimar Republic

Source analysis: interpreting the evidence for the Nazi regime in power 1933–1939
  • The initial consolidation of Nazi power 1933–1934

  • The nature and role of Nazi ideology

  • The impact of Nazi ideology and policies on Jewish people and other minorities, women, youth and workers

  • Methods of control: laws, censorship, propaganda, repression and terror

  • Opposition to the Nazi regime

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