GCSE Modern World History
Mar 27, 2015
GCSE Modern World History
Paper 1 – International Relations
• Why were German children using banknotes as building blocks after World War 1?
• Why was there ANOTHER world war 20 years later?
• And who was REALLY responsible?
• And why was the ‘Cold War’ so chilly if it was all about nuclear weapons?
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Paper 1 – USA Depth Study
Find out about the ‘Roaring’
Twenties…• …the new
technology & gadgets!
• …the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood!
• …the new music that swept the world!
• …the ‘Flappers’ whose lifestyle shocked the nation!• …and the
Anti-Flirt League who tried to ban them!
Paper 1 – USA Depth Study• …and not forgetting the car
that changed the world!
Paper 1 – USA Depth Study
• How did a gangster like Al Capone murder over 300 people & never get convicted?
• Who were the Ku Klux Klan & why did they maim, torture or kill so many black people?
• And why was the government PAYING people to scare away pigeons from the steps of the town hall?
Paper 2 – Britain 1906-1918• Why were there
beggars on the streets, soldiers too sick to fight and children getting killed by their parents for the insurance money?
• How did Emily Davison help get women the vote…
…by getting herself killed during a horse race?
• And why was DORA responsible for giving us Alsatians, British summer time, and a Queen called ‘Windsor’?
Coursework – Nazi Germany
• What was it like to live in Hitler’s Germany if you were…
…young?
…female?
…unemployed?
…Jewish?
What can you do withHistory GCSE?