Autumn Term Sep – Dec
USA divided, 1492-1900
- USA from 1492
- Slave trade – Middle passage
- Life of a slave
- Resistance
- Abolitionists
- American Civil War
- Life after Civil War
Conflict and tension, 1913-1939
- Causes of World war I
- Propaganda and recruitment
- Trench warfare
Spring Term Jan – Apr
Conflict and tension, 1913-1939
- Russian and American involvement
- Treaty of Versailles/ League of Nations
- Rise of extremism in Europe
- Hitler’s foreign policy/ appeasement
- Dunkirk
- Evacuation and the blitz
- War in the East
- D-Day
- Holocaust: persecution
- Holocaust: genocide
Summer Term 1 Apr – July
Topic
Revolution and protest
- Roman Manchester
- Agricultural Manchester
- Industrial Manchester
- Workers’ rights
- Women’s rights
- Social revolution