History / Year 10 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding

• TLF-IDM013964

This is an interactive resource about taking positive action in the community. Students see: how Oskar Schindler made a difference to the lives of Holocaust survivors; how Kurt Messerschmidt made a difficult choice during the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 1938; and how students today got started on community action and what they ...

• TLF-IDM013966

This is an interactive resource about the importance of sharing personal stories, in particular Holocaust survivors sharing testimony. It is introduced by video and text defining testimony, tracing the history of the Holocaust, and explaining the purpose of the IWitness Archive. Scaffolded student activities in the resource ...

• TLF-IDM019219

The Japanese bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 caught the USA, Britain and their allies by surprise, as did the rapid progress of Japanese forces through Southeast Asia. This British Movietone newsreel captures Great Britain's response to Japan's sudden entry into World War II.

• TLF-IDM018620

What happened to the Jewish population of Vienna, Austria's capital, during World War II? Its members were among the estimated six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. In this clip from 2007, find out about the prolonged campaign of historian Tina Walzer to reclaim Vienna's Jewish heritage. The clip is the first of two.

• TLF-IDM013968

This is an interactive resource in which students create a word cloud based on the testimony of Holocaust survivor Ruth Brand. The resource has four elements: consider, collect, construct and communicate. After watching a short video of her life story, students consider one aspect of her experience, such as fasting for ...

• TLF-IDM019218

Singapore was a bustling commercial centre at the beginning of World War II, strategically located alongside busy shipping lanes between the Indian and Pacific oceans. In January 1942, it remained an outpost of the British Empire. A month later, it had fallen to the Japanese. Before the arrival of Japanese soldiers on the ...

• TLF-IDM008648

This is a richly illustrated online exhibition about Americans at war by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. It contains 13 major sections, one comprising up to 18 screens, covering conflicts from the War of Independence (1775-83) to 'new American roles' (1989-present). The exhibition also provides the ...

• TLF-IDM013975

This is an interactive resource in which students create a word cloud based on the testimony of Holocaust survivor Kurt Messerschmidt. The resource has four elements: consider, collect, construct and communicate. After watching a short video of his life story, students consider one aspect of his experience, such as the ...

• TLF-IDM013972

This is an interactive resource in which students create a word cloud based on the testimony of Holocaust witness Howard Cwick, an American soldier present at the liberation of Buchenwald camp. The resource has four elements: consider, collect, construct and communicate. After watching a short video of his life story, students ...

• TLF-IDM019215

The Japanese surrender at the end of World War II was preceded by a heavy bombing campaign by the Allied forces, culminating in the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Germany had already surrendered, and with the devastation wrought on his country, it was inevitable that Japan's Emperor Hirohito would follow ...