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?

?

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?