Harris Longterm Plan Y12 Boombust-germany

KS5 Long Term Overview: Year 12 (Dhu) for 2007-8 Subject: AS Level History Units 1 and 3 Boom and Bust USA 1917-33 Source-based Exam, Life in Hitler's Germany 1933-39 Coursework

Year 12

Autumn Term 2007

Spring Term 2008

Summer Term 2008

Half Term 1 – 20 lessons

Half Term 2 - 24 lessons:

Unit 1: Boom and Bust – USA 191733 40% of AS Final Grade

Unit 3: Life in Hitler's Germany 1933-39 (Coursework) 30% of grade

Unit 1 Focus: Boom: the impact of the First World War, Henry Ford and mass production, consumerism

Unit Focus: NSDAP economic solutions: construction and industrial progress, work programmes and rearmament

Content: 1. Reasons for the apparent prosperity of the boom years in the USA. 2. The impact Henry Ford had on the automobile industry and on the USA economy in general 3. New business methods consequent upon the growth of huge corporations and mass consumerism and easy credit 4. Government policies which helped create and perpetuate this boom, in particular the Emergency Tariff Act of 1921 and the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922. 5. Tax reductions and Coolidge’s general policy of laissez-faire. Assessment Methods: Essays and Source based Questions: 1. Why were the Republicans popular with the American electorate? 2. ‘Partial Prosperity’. Discuss this view of the Economy in the USA in the 1920’s 3. Clements, P. Prosperity, Depression and The New Deal source based q.s p.43

1. Hjalmar Schacht and the running of the German economy 2. Funding the economy. 3. Autarky in theory and practice 4. Solving unemployment 5. Workers rights 6. Strength Through Joy and other schemes Assessment: Exam question essay

Unit Focus: The social impact of National Socialism on social classes – the role and status of women

1. 2. 3. 4.

Women and work Marriage and parenthood Education system The Hitler Youth movement

Assessment: Exam question essay

Unit Focus: Revision

Unit 2 Focus: Prohibition and organised crime

Half Term 2 – 24 lessons

1. The reasons why Prohibition was introduced into the USA, and the AntiSaloon League, anti-German feeling and support given by business tycoons like John D. Rockefeller. 2. The work of John F Kramer, the first Prohibition Commissioner and the difficulties he and his agents faced. 3. The encouragement prohibition gave to mass law-breaking via speakeasies, moonshine and bootlegging and the links to gangs, gangsters and organised crime, along with knowledge of the activities of John Torrio and Al Capone in Chicago, the St Valentine’s Day Massacre,. 4. Corruption within the forces of law and order and the apparent inability of the authorities to control or contain the situation, is expected. 5. The positive attributes of Prohibition.

Essays and Source based Questions: 1. Clements, P. Prosperity, Depression 2.

and The New Deal source based q.s p.19 Account for the early success and later failure of the Prohibition campaign

Half Term 2 - 24 lessons: Unit 3 Focus: Political and social tensions: the Ku Klux Klan, immigration policy, the Red Scare

Unit Focus: Racism, citizenship and the treatment of minorities: the persecution of the Jews

1. Hitler’s ideas about Jews 2. Jews in German history and in Weimar 3. Anti-semitic propaganda inc Der Sturmer 4. Nuremburg Laws 5. Kristallnacht 6. Gypsies, homosexuals and the handicapped. Assessment: Exam question essay

Unit Focus: The beliefs and aims of the NSDAP

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Racial theory Nationalism and lebensraum Totalitarianism Purge of anti-capitalists National Socialism and organised religion 6. Fuhrer cult

Content: 1. Political and social tensions (the Ku Klux Klan, immigration policy, the Red Scare) relating to conflicts arising out of the reactions of white AngloSaxon Protestant US citizens to social change, to the women’s suffrage issue and to racial tensions. 2. The reasons for the Red Scare and how it developed in the USA via, for example, the Palmer Raids 3. Why Congress passed the Emergency Immigration Law in 1921 and the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act in 1924, and to the tensions these laws both reduced and exacerbated. 4. How the Sacco and Vanzetti case reflected racial tensions. 5. The ways in which the Ku Klux Klan reflected widespread racism in the USA, the reasons for the Klan’s collapse as a mass organisation in the late 1920s. 6. How the Scopes trial reflected the tensions between rural, small town USA and the big cities.

Assessment Methods: Essays and Source based Questions: What evidence is there that America was intolerant and reactionary in the 1920’s? Willoughby, D and S. The USA 1917-45 source based questions on the KKK pp.163165. Edexcel AS paper 4 June 2003

Unit 4 Focus: Bust: the economic

Assessment: Exam question essay

and social causes, and the social and political consequences to 1933, of the Wall Street Crash. 1. The economic and social causes, and the social and political consequences to 1933, of the Wall Street Crash. 2. Identifying that the seeds of the Crash lay in the instability of the boom years of the early and mid-twenties, in particular in the uneven distribution of income, rural poverty and stock market speculation. 3. The immediate causes of the Crash and why the Crash led to the Depression. 4. The policies of Hoover and the effect his policies had on relieving the worst effects of the Depression.

Assessment Methods: Essays and Source based Questions: Clements, P. Prosperity, Depression and The New Deal source based q.s pp.61-62 Clements, P. Prosperity, Depression and The New Deal source based q.s p.87-89 Willoughby, D and S. The USA 1917-45 source based questions on Boom and Bust pp.165-169. Edexcel AS paper 29 May 2002