History | Year 10 | Learning | Secondary | Swindon Academy

Year 10 History

Overview

Term 

What are we learning 

 

1 

Medicine through time – Medieval Medicine (1250-1500) 

Ideas of Medicine in Medieval England continued late into the Renaissance period. This unit covers the ideas that people held about the cause of illness and the methods medieval people tried to prevent and treat the disease. The church played a major role in society during this time and this is demonstrated thought the case study of the Black Death in 1348 where they contributed different causes and prevention to this epidemic. 

2 

Medicine through time – Renaissance Medicine (1500-1700) 

This units develops ideas from the Medieval period. There are many areas of continuity in cause, prevention and treatment. But it is also a time where new ideas are beginning to influence medicine. During this unit you will discover the ideas of Vesalius, Sydenham and Harvey and how they encouraged other doctors and scientists. Areas of communication will be investigated and how they helped ideas to spread such as the Printing Press and the Royal Society. Finally, the Great Plague will allow us to see continuity in ideas about cause, prevention and treatment from the Black Death. 

3 

Medicine through time – Industrial Medicine (1700-1900) 

During this unit rapid changes to Medicine start to occur. There are new ideas about the cause of disease such as spontaneous generation and Germ Theory. You will study the impact of these discoveries and the factors that allowed these to happen such as science and technology. This unit also discusses improvements in hospitals and the influence of Florence Nightingale, improvements in surgery due to James Simpson and Joseph Lister. You will then discover the impact of the first vaccination against smallpox. Changes to public health and the impact these ideas have on London during the cholera epidemic. 

4 

Medicine through time – Modern Medicine – (1900 – Present Day) 

During this unit people now understood that illness and disease could be caused by microbes so you will discover how scientists had begun to experiment with ways of treating and preventing diseases e.g. Fleming and Penicillin and Ehrlich and Magic bullets. You will also study the impact of genetics and lifestyle factors on individuals health and the role the government played in improving the health of Britain through lifestyle campaigns, laws and the NHS. 

5 

Weimar and Nazi Germany – The Weimar Republic 1918-1929 

During this unit you will investigate the impact of ending of WWI on the German economy and society. There were many attempts to overthrow the government such as the Spartacist Uprising and the Kapp Putsch to show German discontent with the new government. You’ll also analyse the impacts of hyperinflation and the French Occupation of the Ruhr and how Stresemann deals with these problems through introducing plans and pacts eg Dawes Plan and the Kellogg-Briand Pact to rebuild German domestic and foreign policy. 

6 

Weimar and Nazi Germany – Hitlers’ Rise to Power 1919-1933 

During this unit you will investigate how Hitler built the Nazi Party whilst the Weimar Republic was in power. You will study the Nazi parties’ early beliefs, the Munich Putsch and the implications on the Nazi Party, how the Wall Street Crash and the economic depression of 1929 led to the rapid growth of Nazi support. Finally, the variety of reasons Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 

 

Weimar and Nazi Germany – Nazi control and dictatorship 1933-1939 

This unit explores how Hitler creates a totalitarian state to ensure he has control. He eliminates political opponents and parties, trade unions and improves control over his own party by purging the SA. To do this Hitler uses forces such as the Gestapo, the SS and the police. He also needs to control the narrative of his party so deploys propaganda techniques to ensure German people can hear and receive many of his messages even in the Berlin Olympics of 1936. This then leads on to analysing the opposition to the Nazis and the impact this had on German society. 

 

Weimar and Nazi Germany – Life in Nazi Germany 1933-39 

This unit explores the impact of the lives of Hitler on ordinary Germans – how he controls work, marriage, the lives of children, the lives of the unemployed, the lives of asocials, the lives of undesirables and the lives of minority groups. How he introduces laws and uses propaganda to create a peoples community. 

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