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Home Page » Senior School » Curriculum » GCSE » GCSE History
History
 
Examination:    OCR – History B (Modern World)
 
Paper 1  deals with International Relations (45% of total marks) and looks at the Cold War period from 1945-75.  The emphasis is on the breakdown of relations between East and West after World War II from 1945-49 culminating in the Berlin Blockade, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.
 
The dramatic contrasts of American History  during the inter-war period (1919-41) is a special ‘Depth Study’ topic on the second half of Paper 1.  
 
Paper 2 focuses on British History (30% of total marks) and concentrates on events leading up to the Great War from the turn of the century. Issues studied include the major social welfare legislation of the Liberal Government (1906-14), the rise of the suffrage movement that campaigned for women's votes and the ‘Home Front’ in WWI.
 
Coursework (25% of total marks) will be in the form of a Historical Enquiry undertaken by the candidate following a taught course of study.  The final piece of work will be produced under controlled assessment conditions and may be up to 2000 words in length. The focus will be Nazi Germany 1933-45.
 
GCSE History is taught using interactive software and there is a strong emphasis on ICT, the use of film and documentary evidence and field work with trips to the Imperial War Museum in London and the battlefields of the Western Front from the 1914-18 war.
 
Outline of Course
Paper 1:   International Relations, 1945-75 (Depth Study ‘USA, 1919-41)
Paper 2:   British History (c. 1900-18)     
Coursework: Historical Enquiry (Focus: Nazi Germany, 1933-45)
 

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