Autumn Term:

• Slavery and Trade
  Human Rights
  Voting
  Canals and railways
  Health, hygiene, cholera and the application of science.

Spring Term:
  

•   The British Empire.
  Changes in the “balance of power” in Europe and the World after 1850.
  Origins of the First World War – introduction to “The 20^th Century World”

•  The First World War: the fighting.
  The peace treaties after the war.
  The rise of the dictators.

Summer Term:

• Hitler and the Holocaust
  the causes of the Second World War.
  The Second World War.

• Post war Europe: the Cold War, European Community, Decline of British Empire.