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Essential Modern World History Students' Book
Ben Walsh

Paperback

RRP: £14.99
ISBN: 9780719577154

ISBN-10: 0719577152

Published: 25/09/2002

Extent: 240 pages

Illustrations: colour illustrations

Series: History In Focus

Summary:
An entry-level textbook for students, covering the heartland of modern world history, including World War I, Nazi Germany, International Relations between 1919 and 1939, World War II, and the Cold War. It should be suitable for pupils studying Modern World History for GCSE, Certificate of Achievement, IGCSE or S Grade. Each topic is pared down to its essentials and memorable key ideas. There are tasks which are designed to get students thinking about the key ideas in the ways that examiners expect. The text concentrates on human stories which bring the topic to life.

Table of Contents:

Britain and the Great War

Britain 1906-18

Part 1: The Liberal reforms

Part 2: Votes for women

Part 3: The home front in the first world war

Making peace 1919-23

Keeping the peace in the 1920s

Democracy to Destruction: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-45

Part 1: Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?

Part 2 - the rise of the Nazis: How did Germans feel about the Nazis in the 1920s?

Part 3: How effectively did the Nazis control Germany?

Part 4: Life in Nazi Germany

The Road to War

Britain in the Second World War

Part 1: The military war

Part 2: The Home Front

The Coming of the Cold War 1945-49

Cold War – Hot War 1950-72

The Fall of the Wall: Soviet control of Eastern Europe 1953-89?

About the Author(s):
Ben Walsh is a GCSE Assistant Examiner for OCR Modern World History, teaches AQA Modern World History at Stafford College and does regular INSET for all aspects of the teaching of Modern World History and the use of ICT in history teaching.

Reviews:

This is a glossy, colourful book that any history teacher would want to pick up and flick through immediately upon seeing it...A lot of thought has clearly gone into designing different visuals in this book...It is one of the best textbooks I have seen in terms of activities and has already given me ideas on how to spice up some of my lessons.

SATH Resources Review

Ben Walsh has built up a commanding position as the leading author of history textbooks for the modern period in England and Wales...this is undoubtedly the best organized and most tightly written of his books...With it short pithy sections, excellent pictures and well-focused tasks, this is an easily used textbook which should allow a full range of pupils to gain a sound introduction to the essential moments of modern world history.

SATH

This is a glossy, colourful book that any history teacher would want to pick up and flick through immediately upon seeing it...It is one of the best textbooks I have seen...

SATH Resources Review

Ben Walsh's textbook is a very useful book, which I am sure will soon esablish itself as a top-selling title for GCSE and IGCSE.

SATH Resources Review

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