This is a series of lessons designed to meet the needs of learners completing Edexcel’s iGCSE Paper 1 (5) Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924 – 53 The spec squeezed into 24 lessons: 1.1 The Soviet Union in 1924 1.2 The rivals for leadership (1. Nov 2020, a) 1.3 Strengths & weaknesses of Stalin and Trotsky (1. June 2019, a) 1.4 Stalin’s steps to power (1a. June 2021 Ci; 1r. Nov. 2020 Ci) 2.1a Reasons for industrialisation 2.1b Nature of industrialisation 2.1c successes and failures of industrialisation 2.2a Collectivisation (1. June 2022 Ci; 1a. Nov 2021a) 2.2b Opposition to collectivisation 2.2c Success and failures of collectivisation (1a June 2021 b; 1r Nov 2020 Cii) 3.1 Purges and causes (1. June 2019, Ci; 1r. Nov 2020, a) 3.2a & c Key features and impact of the purges of the 1930s (1a. June 2021 a) 3.2b Control of the population 3.2d Purges armed forces (1a. June 2022 b; 1a. Nov 2021 Ci) 3.3 Cult of personality, censorship, propaganda 3.4 Education and the Soviet interpretation of history 4.1 Town & countryside (1. June 19, Cii; 1a. June 22, Cii; 1a. Nov 21, b) 4.2 Different experience of social groups (1r. Nov 2020 b) 4.3 Changes in education (1. November 2020, Cii) 4.4 Persecution of ethnic minorities (1. June 2019, Cii) 5.1a Soviet setbacks and survival (1. June 2019, b; 1. November 2020, Cii; 1a. June 21 Cii) 5.1b Stalingrad (1a June 2022 a) 5.2 Post-war Each lesson starts with 5 recall questions that can be self assessed on the next slide. Clear instructions for each activity The textbook approved by the exam board (978-0435185466) has been used, along with some printable materials that compliment the textbook~ Learning objectives are clearly displayed on each slide The titles of the PPT clearly indicate where an exam question has been used. -All exam questions have mark scheme on the next slide.

This is a series of 24 lessons that covers the iGCSE Edexcel paper 1 Germany: development of a dictatorship. Where there is a relevant previous exam question, it has been included at the end of the lesson, including the mark scheme: 1.1 Establishment of Weimar Republic (1a. June 2022 a) 1.2 Reactions to the ToV (1a. November 2021 a) 1.3 Challenges from the left and right (1. November 2020 ci) 1.4 Economic problems and Ruhr (1. June 2019 a) 1.5 Hyperinflation (1a. June 2021 ci) 2.1 Stresemann at home (1r. November 2020 a) 2.2 Stresemann abroad (1. June 2019 b; 1. November 2020 b; 1a November 2021 ci) 2.3 How stable was the Weimar Republic 3.1 Hitler’s early career in politics 3.2 Munich Putsch (1a. November 2021 b) 3.3 Reorganisation of the Nazi Party, 1924-28 (1. June 2019 ci) 3.4 Great Depression (1a. June 2021 cii) 3.5 Nazi methods to win support & the role of the SA (1. November 2020 cii) 3.6 Events from 1932 to January 1933 (1a. June 2022 ci) 4.1 Steps to dictatorship 4.2a Nazi methods of control 4.2b Propaganda and censorship (1a. November 2021 (cii)) 4.3 Social policies (1a. June 2021 a; 1a. June 2022 b) 4.4 Nazi racial policies (1r. November 2020 b) 4.5 Unemployment (1. June 2019 cii) 5.1 Nazi policies towards Jews 5.2 The Home Front (1. June 2021 b; 1a June 2022 cii) 5.3 Opposition to Hitler (1. November 2020 a; 1r November 2020 cii) 5.4 Hitler’s death and the end of the Third Reich Each lesson begins with five recall questions that are self assessed using the answers on the next slide. Included is a Personalised learning checklist. The spec is broken down into its smaller parts. Students can then RAG rate them. You will be able to see where topics align to exam questions on this document. There are three learning objectives for each lesson. These are displayed at the bottom of each slide. I have used the published textbook. If you don’t have it, you can easily swap out the page numbers for a different one. Textbook you need: Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History Development of Dictatorship: Germany 1918-45 Student Book *ISBN: 978-0435185381

This is a unit of lessons that iGCSE Edexcel History. This is for paper 2 and is (A2) Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-24. The unit has been squeezed into 24 lessons. Where there is a relevant exam question, it has been included at the end of the lesson with the mark scheme: 1.1 Tsarist rule in Russia 1.2 1905 Revolution 1.2 exam questions (2a June 2021,a & 2r June 2019, c) 1.3 The first four dumas 1.4 Stolypin’s & Goldfield (2. 20 Nov a & 2a Nov 21, a) 2.1 Effects of WW1 on Russia 2.2 Influence of Rasputin 2.3a February Revolution - 2 lessons 2.3b army mutiny, Abdication & government (2a. June 2021, a) 3.1a Problems with the provisional government (2a June 2022, b&c) 3.1b the impact of the Petrograd Soviet 3.2a Lenin and the Bolsheviks (2r. June 2019, a) 3.2b Kornilov Revolt 3.3a Reasons for the success of the Bolsheviks 3.3b Lenin and Trotsky (2AR. June 2022, b&c) 4.1a Decrees and assembly (2. Nov 2020, Qa) 4.1b Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (2a. June 2021, b&c) 4.2 Sides and events of the Civil War (2AR. June 2022, a) 4.3 Reasons for the Bolshevik victory 5.1 War communism 5.2 The Kronstadt Naval Mutiny (2r. November 2020, a) 5.3a New economic policy 5.3b Opposition to the NEP (2. Nov 2020, Qb ;2a. June 2022, a) 5.4 Lenin’s achievements to 1924 Each lesson begins with five recall questions that are self assessed on the next slide. There are three learning objectives for each lesson. These are displayed at the bottom of each slide. This Unit of work uses the textbook that has been published by the exam board. Title: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: The Soviet Union in Revolution, 1905–24 Student Book ISBN: 978-0435185435

These lessons have been designed to be easy to follow. Lessons follow the AQA (BA) Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894–1918 , and include the following 26 lessons Part one: The causes of the First World War 1.01 The alliance system (2022, Q3) 1.02 Moroccan Crises (S1, Q3) 1.03 Crisis in the Balkans (2018, Q3) 1.04 Splendid isolation 1.05 Wilhelm foriegn policy (2022, Q1) 1.06 European rearmament 1.07 Slav nationalism and Austro-Serbian rivalry 1.08 Assassination 1.09 July Crisis 1.10 cause of WW1 Part two: The First World War: stalemate 2.01 Schlieffen Plan & Belgium 2.02 Trenches and Marne (2020, Q3) 2.03 military tactics and technology 2.04 Verdun 2.5 Somme (S2, Q2) 2.06 Passchendaele 2.07 Haig 2.8 Gallipoli (2018, Q1) 2.09 War at sea Part three: Ending the war 3.01 Russia leaves (2019, Q1) 3.02 USA enters WW1 (S2, Q1) 3.03 tactics and technology (2019, Q2) 3.04 Ludendorff Offensive (2021, Q4; S2, Q3) 3.05 Hundred Days 3.06 end of WW1 (2022, Q2) 3.07 Cause of Germany’s defeat (2018, Q2; 2020, Q4) The lessons use the Oxford Conflict and Tension: First World War 1894-1918 book (9780198429005); HOWEVER, there is an alternative for every time the textbook has been included. You will just need to print the reading sheets. The lesson clearly displays where an exam question has been used and includes the mark scheme. All comprehension activities have the answers included on the next slide. Lessons include links to YouTube for engagement.