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History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 18: Hot war, cold war why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?
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Section 1: What were the main features of twentieth-century warfare?
Children:
- select and combine information from sources on the basis of content
- identify sources of information that are useful for specific tasks
- describe characteristic features of twentieth-century conflicts
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Section 2: Do the causes of twentieth-century wars have anything in common?
Children:
- describe and make links between relevant reasons for, and results of, events and changes
- explain the reasons why attitudes to events differ
- use knowledge and understanding to analyse and interpret information
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Section 3: Why did the end of the Second World War have the effect of starting another, different world conflict?
Children:
- explain the significance of nuclear weapons
- identify the chief characteristics of the Great Powers post-1945
- analyse reasons for and results of the Cold War
- select, organise and use relevant information to produce structured work, making appropriate use of dates and terms
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Section 4: How did the Cold War end?
Children:
- identify different opinions of the reasons for the end of the Cold War
- give some of the reasons for these differences
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Section 5: What do local people remember about the main conflicts?
Children:
- explain the impact of 'total war' on ordinary people
- use knowledge and understanding to identify and evaluate sources of information relating to the impact of 'total war' on military and non-military populations
- select, organise and use relevant sources of information to produce structured work for an investigation
- make links between key features within and across periods
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Section 6: Why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?
Children:
- use specific knowledge to make links and connections between twentieth-century conflicts
- reach and support their conclusions in a well-structured piece of work that uses a range of punctuation to express shades of meaning
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