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  • STRAND ONE
    • THINK LIKE A HISTORIAN
  • STRAND TWO
    • EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND
    • THE ENGLISH PATTERN OF SETTLEMENT IN IRELAND
    • 1798 IRISH REBELLION
    • THE GREAT FAMINE AND THE IRISH DIASPORA
    • THE PARLIAMENTARY TRADITION IN IRISH POLITICS
    • THE GAA
    • THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND UNIONISM, 1911-23 >
      • HOME RULE CRISIS, 1912-14
      • 1916 RISING
      • RISE OF SINN FÉIN
      • IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-21
      • ANGLO-IRISH TREATY, 1921
      • IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-23
    • IRELAND AND THE WORLD AT WAR >
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR I
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • IRELAND IN THE 1960s
    • THE TROUBLES IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    • WOMEN IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND
  • STRAND THREE
    • ANCIENT ROME
    • MEDIEVAL TIMES
    • THE RENAISSANCE
    • THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
    • THE REFORMATION
    • PRE TWENTIETH CENTURY REVOLUTION >
      • THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
      • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    • COMMUNISM AND FASCISM >
      • COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA
      • FASCISM IN ITALY
      • FASCISM IN GERMANY
    • WORLD WAR II
    • THE HOLOCAUST
    • THE COLD WAR
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD IN THE 1960s
    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    • PATTERNS OF CHANGE >
      • HEALTH AND MEDICINE [OPTION ONE]
  • ASSESSMENT
    • CBA 1: THE PAST IN MY PLACE
    • CBA 2: A LIFE IN TIME
    • ASSESSMENT TASK
    • STATE EXAM
  • ACTION VERBS FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • HISTORY MATTERS 365 BLOG
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WORLD WAR II

Recognising key change
Learning Outcome 3.4: Discuss the general causes and course of World War One or World War Two and the immediate and long-term impact of the war on people and nations

background

history extra - Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?

independent - Treaty of Versailles at 100: Path to peace or road to war?

bbc bitesize - hitler's foreign policy
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HISTORY EXTRA - ​The Munich crisis: The battle over appeasement
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spartacus educational - the munich agreement


Introduction
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history pod - 1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland


history extra - The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland


Overview
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history bombs - History of World War 2 (in One Take) 


​CRASH COURSE HISTORY -
WORLD WAR II


​BBC iWonder -
 World War Two: History's most savage and devastating war
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HIstory extra - second world war: a timeline


​John D. Ruddy -

​World War II in 7 minutes


10 more things about ww2


​bbc history -
world war ii


william mcsweeney - world war two


Battles
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History Extra - The 11 most significant battles of of the Second World War
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Eyewitness to History - Evacuation of Dunkirk 
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history extra - 9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk


jaysways - dunkirk i animated history


​history extra -

​D-Day: 24 hours that changed the world


​Your guide to D-Day: what happened, how many casualties were there, and what did it accomplish?
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D-Day in numbers #DDay #DDay75 #infographic #WW2 pic.twitter.com/qR6VOPzWON

— BBC History Magazine (@HistoryExtra) May 28, 2019


history extra - The battle for Iwo Jima: why did it happen and why was it so hard fought?
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national geographic - The Soviet victory in the Battle of Berlin finished Nazi Germany


TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
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the atomic bomb

​HISTORY POD - 6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima


the telegraph - Archive footage of Hiroshima bombing


​bbc studios -
Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb 


flocabulary - Rap Video -
Would you drop the bomb?


impact of wwii
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neil halloran - the fallen of world war ii


bbc news - Dresden: The World War Two bombing 75 years on


More Resources


National Archives UK - Killing Hitler
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history extra - 12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary


​history extra -

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second world war quiz
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WW2: When Britain stood (not quite) alone


​Forgotten trials: the other side of Nuremberg


FOCUS TASK
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REVISION
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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britannica - quiz - the second world war: fact or fiction?
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britannica - quiz - WWII: allies, axis or associates?
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • CHRONICLES TEXTBOOK
  • A POSSIBLE APPROACH
  • STRAND ONE
    • THINK LIKE A HISTORIAN
  • STRAND TWO
    • EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND
    • THE ENGLISH PATTERN OF SETTLEMENT IN IRELAND
    • 1798 IRISH REBELLION
    • THE GREAT FAMINE AND THE IRISH DIASPORA
    • THE PARLIAMENTARY TRADITION IN IRISH POLITICS
    • THE GAA
    • THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND UNIONISM, 1911-23 >
      • HOME RULE CRISIS, 1912-14
      • 1916 RISING
      • RISE OF SINN FÉIN
      • IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-21
      • ANGLO-IRISH TREATY, 1921
      • IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-23
    • IRELAND AND THE WORLD AT WAR >
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR I
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • IRELAND IN THE 1960s
    • THE TROUBLES IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    • WOMEN IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND
  • STRAND THREE
    • ANCIENT ROME
    • MEDIEVAL TIMES
    • THE RENAISSANCE
    • THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
    • THE REFORMATION
    • PRE TWENTIETH CENTURY REVOLUTION >
      • THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
      • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    • COMMUNISM AND FASCISM >
      • COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA
      • FASCISM IN ITALY
      • FASCISM IN GERMANY
    • WORLD WAR II
    • THE HOLOCAUST
    • THE COLD WAR
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD IN THE 1960s
    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    • PATTERNS OF CHANGE >
      • HEALTH AND MEDICINE [OPTION ONE]
  • ASSESSMENT
    • CBA 1: THE PAST IN MY PLACE
    • CBA 2: A LIFE IN TIME
    • ASSESSMENT TASK
    • STATE EXAM
  • ACTION VERBS FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • HISTORY MATTERS 365 BLOG
  • TEACHING STRATEGIES
  • WEBLINKS
  • TEACHER MAILING LIST
  • MY CLASSROOM
  • CONTACT