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Year 9 Key Questions

Unit 14  British Empire: how did Britain, by 1900 own nearly a quarter of the world?

• Where in the world was the British Empire in 1900?
• How did overseas trade lead to the building of a powerful empire?
• What part did explorers, adventurers and missionaries play in creating the British Empire?
• Did the British fight wars to gain colonies?
• How did the British people celebrate Empire Day?

Unit 16  The Franchise: why did it take so much longer for British women to get the vote?

• Three campaigning women:- What were they fighting for?
• Why did some people have the vote in 1815 and not others?
• Who was struggling for political change between 1815 and 1848?
• Why did more people get the vote in the second half of the 19th century?
• What freedoms were women obtaining?
• Who was campaigning for votes for women?
• Why did women gain the vote in 1918 and not before?
• Why did it take so much longer for women to get the vote?

Unit 20  20th century medicine: how has it changed the lives of people?

• Better health:- Longer life, Why?
• Free at the point of delivery?
• Is there a down side to modern surgery and medicine?

Unit 21  From Aristotle to the atom: scientific discoveries that changed the world?

• Where in the world?
• The Scientific Revolution:- What is a revolution?
• Charles Darwin:- Are people just another species?
• Miasma or Germs:- How is disease spread?
• Splitting the atom for good or ill?
• Which discoveries changed the world?

Unit 18  Hot war, Cold war: why did the major 20th century conflicts affect so many people?

• What happened in 20th century warfare?
• Do the causes of 20th century wars have anything in common?
• Why did the end of World War II have the effect of starting another different world conflict?
• Cold War:- Why did it begin, how did it end?
• What do local people remember about the main conflicts?
• Why did the major 20th century conflicts affect so many people?

Unit 22 (The role of the individual)  Winston Churchill

• Who was Winston Churchill?
• What motivated Churchill?
• Churchill and World War II
• How has Churchill been portrayed?
• Was Churchill's impact for good or ill?

Unit 19  How and why did the Holocaust happen?

• How did the Nazi persecution of the jews develop?
• How and why were ghettoes set up and what was it like inside them?
• What was the final solution?
• Anne Frank
• What happened when people found out about the Holocaust?
• What questions and issues remain?
• So, how and why did the holocaust happen?

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