Year 9 History | Rye College

What our students will learn in Year 9

Our Year 9 curriculum further develops our student's historical skills starting with the exploration of World War 1. From here we look at the changing world with new freedoms for women via the Suffragette movement and delve a little deeper into 1920s life. Our final terms focus on World War 2 and it's aftermath.

Our termly overview

Term	Topic	Content Overview	Vocabulary	Vocabulary
1	The World in 1900 Trenches	What was ‘Trench Warfare’? How was WW1 fought? How did different people experience WW1? How did WW1 bring positive developments? What was the ‘Treaty of Versailles’? Why is it important to remember WW1?	Communism Zigzag Formation Dugout Attrition Fire Step Duck Boards Sandbags Bayonets Zeppelin Shrapnel Mustard Gas Conscription Pacifist Alternativist Morality Quakers Tribunal Legal Clause Non-Combatants Conchie Cushy War Effort General Haig Slaughter Stalemate Conservative Attitudes	“Over the Top” Offensive Defensive Irony Satire Comedic Licence X-Ray Blood Storage Skin Grafts Gangrenous Public Opinion Truces White Feather Peace Treaty Armistice Cease Fire Diktat Devastation Resonant Revealing
2	New Freedoms	What was life like for women in the early 20th century? Who were the ‘Suffragists’? Who were the ‘Suffragettes’? How effective is violent protest? Why did some oppose female suffrage?	Separate Spheres Patriarchy Suffrage Legally Enshrined Sexism Institutional Sexism Suffragist Franchise Peaceful Campaigns Persuasion Suffragette Extremism Dramatization	Valiant Selfless Trampled Convictions Accident Intentions Anti-Suffrage Abandoned Neglecting Opposition Entitled Connectives Deconstruction Derby Suicide
3	1920s Worldwide	Why was there a revolution in Russia? What impacts did the Russian Revolution have? How did life improve in the 1920s? How did life change for women? How did America react to Prohibition?	Mutiny Tsar Abdicate Tsarina Communism Capitalism Economy Rasputin Caricature Transfixing Insatiable Haemophilia Providence Autocratic Ruler Constitutional Monarchy Duma Compelled Inference Social Freedom Volstead Act Moonshine Bootlegger	Smuggler Speakeasies Bookie Joints Brothels Distilleries Horse Tracks Breweries Gangster Massacre Tax Evasion Dementia Syphilis Racketeer Luxuries Flapper Conventional Liberated Traditional Radical Prohibition Intoxicated
4	The Rise of Hitler	What happened with the American Stock Market? What were the impacts of the Wall Street Crash? Who was Adolf Hitler? How did the Nazis get elected? How were Jews persecuted? How did Nazis manipulate the youth?	Perpetrator Tithing Hue and Cry Stock Constable Pillory Ordeals Law Enforcement Penalties Retribution Malice Criminalised Gibbeting	Supreme Leader Fuhrer Dictator Anti-Semitism Holocaust Einsatzgruppen Murder Squads Extermination Camps Ghettos Intolerance Neo-Nazi Scapegoat Aryan Propaganda Indoctrinate Impressionable Hitler Youth Shutzstaffel Enabling Mandatory
5	WWII and its Aftermath	Why did Britain appease Hitler? What happened at Dunkirk? How successful was D-Day? Why did we win the Battle of Britain? Is all fair in war?	Appeasement Abhorrence Lebensraum Blitzkrieg Maginot Line Operation Dynamo BEF – British Expeditionary Forces Luftwaffe Artillery Heroism Veteran Bombardment Arial Attacks Dogfights Operation Sealion	Artificial Harbour Flail Tank Bobbin Carpet Layer Duplex Drive Dresden Legitimate War Target Portrayal Engagement Kamikaze Atomic Reaction Nuclear Fallout Fatalities Cold War Luftwaffe Amphibious Invasion Evacuation Misinformation
6	A Modern World? A Study of Social Changes	What happened to the Nazis after the war? How did a cold war develop? How did Britain become multi-cultural? How did Americas get civil rights? What was the social revolution in the 1960? How did women gain social equality?	Nuremberg Trials International Indictment Humanity Inhumane Looting Marginal Figure De-Nazification Cold War Pursued Proxy Wars Espionage Sphere of Influence Dominant Embassies Detest Nuclear Weapons Dominate Inevitable Border Guards Permit Partition Prejudice Multi-Racial Multicultural	Commonwealth Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow Laws Lynching Self-evident Endowed Hypocrisy Civil Rights Movement Segregation Commission Desegregation Mods Rockers Revolution Sub-Culture Hooliganism Anti-Social Philosopher Demerit Feminism Contraception