Year 11 - Warfare: A study through time

This first semester of history is Janus faced, we look to past but also to the future.  With the new Matu timetable here at Ecole Moser, we begin teaching the content of the Maturité Fédérale Suisse in semester 2 of Year 11 (11e). In this first semester we need to complete the chronological overview of history you began in Year 9 (9e). But this is also an opportunity to introduce students to the other main innovation at Ecole Moser from September 2021, the planned introduction of the Double Diploma.  Studying history in the International Baccalaureate presents some interesting new challenges. We are going to preview some of them here. 

There are ten lessons, one introductory lesson and then nine lessons that look at warfare at distinctive moments in history. Each of the lessons on warfare has a 'heritage object' illustrated in the images below and a special case-study where we examine some aspect of the war in more detail. 

Lesson 1 - What is history?

Lesson 2 - Medieval warfare.

Lesson 3 - The Crusades.

Lesson 4 - The New World conquistadors.

Lesson 5 - Wars of Religion

Lesson 6 - The Napoleonic wars.

Lesson 7 - 19th century industrial wars.

Lesson 8 - The First World War.

Lesson 9 - The 1930s interwar years.

Lesson 10 - The Vietnam War. 

Assessment

This unit has three major assessments.

1. A timeline of warfare from 480 BC to 2011 AD. (See some completed examples from 2020)
2. An essay on the changing nature of warfare in the period 1500 to 2000.
3. A factual test on the content of lessons 2-10. 

Extra resources

This BBC bite size revision site provides a nice overview of the development of warfare.