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
Unit 1: Boom and Bust – USA 1917-
33
40% of AS Final Grade
Unit 1 Focus: Boom: the impact of
the First World War, Henry Ford and
mass production, consumerism
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
Half Term 2 - 24 lessons:
Unit 3: Life in Hitler's Germany - Unit Focus: Revision
1933-39 (Coursework) 30% of grade
Unit Focus: NSDAP economic
solutions: construction and
industrial progress, work
programmes and rearmament
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. Women and work
2. Marriage and parenthood
3. Education system
4. The Hitler Youth movement
Assessment: Exam question essay
Unit 2 Focus: Prohibition and Half Term 2 – 24 lessons
organised crime

1. The reasons why Prohibition was

introduced into the USA, and the Anti-
Saloon 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.
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

Essays and Source based

Questions:
Unit Focus: The beliefs and aims of
1. Clements, P. Prosperity, Depression
and The New Deal source based q.s the NSDAP
p.19
2. Account for the early success and later
failure of the Prohibition campaign
1. Racial theory
Half Term 2 - 24 lessons: 2. Nationalism and lebensraum
3. Totalitarianism
4. Purge of anti-capitalists
Unit 3 Focus: Political and social 5. National Socialism and
tensions: the Ku Klux Klan, organised religion
immigration policy, the Red Scare 6. Fuhrer cult
Content:
1. Political and social tensions (the Ku Assessment: Exam question essay
Klux Klan, immigration policy, the
Red Scare) relating to conflicts arising
out of the reactions of white Anglo-
Saxon 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.163-
165.
Edexcel AS paper 4 June 2003

Unit 4 Focus: Bust: the economic

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