Summary:
This series provides eLearning activities to support all the GCSE Modern World History specifications. They are closely allied to the OCR, AQA and Edexcel Modern World History textbooks by Ben Walsh but can be used alongside any coursebook to enrich and vary the learning experience.

• Pre-prepared whiteboard, web-based or network-based activities to cover all the popular 20th century Depth Studies on the GCSE Modern World History specifications
• Activities are combined into coherent lesson sequences that provide a starter, some main activities to develop understanding and some revision activities to reinforce learning - all carefully planned for you so you can concentrate on teaching, with editable teaching notes and worksheets provided so you can adapt and differentiate effectively.
• Each lesson sequence provides both support and engagement for reluctant learners and worthwhile extension material for gifted and talented students
• The activities use a range of familiar and powerful digital technologies including Turning Point (voting software), MovieMaker, PhotoStory, Flash animations, as well Office applicatins such as PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Provides an extensive source library containing photos, animations, audio files and weblinks - including weblinks to hundreds of carefully chosen online, free, video resources
• Includes 'eBook' PDFs from the associated textbooks so you can show them on a whiteboard or share with your students via your VLE
• A powerful and intuitive lesson builder allows you to re-mix the activities and resources as you wish combining them with your own teaching activities and web-based resources to provide a totally personalised curriculum

Table of Contents:
1 The First World War (military)
1.1 Life in the trenches
1.2 Western Front: technology and strategy
1.3 The war at sea and in the air
1.4 Galilipoli and the Eastern Front
1.5 Reasons for German defeat
2 Russia and the USSR 1905-1941
2.1 Tsar Nicholas II
2.2 Troubled Years 1905-14
2.3 Russia in Revolution, 1917
2.4 From Russia to USSR
2.5 The USSR under Stalin
3 Germany 1919-1939
3.1 The establishment of the Weimar republic
3.2 The Stab in the Back Myth and modern reality
3.3 The problems in Weimar Germany, 1919-1924
3.4 How far did the Weimar recover from its problems 1923-29
3.5 The Nazis 1919-1928
3.6 How did the Nazis rise to Power?
3.7 Life in Nazi Germany
3.8 Persecution of the Jews
4 The USA 1919-1939
4.1 The USA’s boom
4.2 The USA in the Roaring Twenties
4.3 Prohibition
4.4 Intolerance in 1920s USA
4.5 Crash and Depression
4.6 Depression and New Deal
5 The USA 1945-75
5.1 The Red Scare
5.2 Civil Rights in the 1950s
5.3 Civil Rights in the 1960s
5.4 Other movements
6 The end of Empire
6.1 The end of the British Empire in India
6.2 Indian Partition
7 China
7.1 The rise of Mao
7.2 Mao's China
8 Exam Focus
8.1 Exam focus: OCR Paper 2 Depth Study
8.2 Exam focus: AQA Paper 2 Twentieth-Century Depth Studies
8.3 Exam focus: Edexcel Unit 2

About the Author(s):
Ben Walsh is an experienced Modern World History teacher, trainer and examiner, a best selling textbook author and a BETT award winner for his work using digital technology to teach history.

Contributors:
Esther Arnott is Head of History at Lampton School, Hounslow