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1. Finding relevant sources
Photo by Gunnar Ridderström on Unsplash Your starting point in learning about a new topic in your DP history programme, or in starting to work on your IA or EE is usually through exploring and identifying...
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Integrating ATT
Approaches to teaching (ATT) are the pedagogical principles for the IB classroom. There are six elements: Teaching through inquiry ‘An important restriction of education is that teachers cannot simply...
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a. Long-term causes of the First World War
This page examines the origins of developing tensions in Europe; the impact of the Franco-Prussian War, the breakdown of Bismarck's system of alliances and the role of Germany's ruler from 1890 - Kaiser...
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Causes and effects of 20th Century wars: Graded student examples Free
Paper Two essays will usually expect students to either analyse one or two Twentieth Century Wars linked to one of the themes on the prescribed content. If it is two wars the question may also specify...
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1. Graded student examples with one case study
The following graded essays are responses to questions requiring only case study. Essay one To what extent was ideology the cause of one Twentieth Century war? This is an essay written by a first year...
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6. First World War: Videos and activities
On this page you will find some suggestions and links to videos that can be used as well as teacher notes with suggestions as to how the videos can be used with students. Questions for some of the videos...
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2. Pearl Harbor (1941)
tex Question Paper The following sources relate to Japanese expansion: the events that led to Pearl Harbour in 1941. Source I A cartoon by Victor Weisz published in the British newspaper, News Chronicle,...
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1. Mao's consolidation of power and rule 1949 - 1976 Free
Mao became leader of China in 1949 having achieved victory over the nationalist forces which had fled to Taiwan. However, Mao still had to consolidate his power and to create a communist state in a country...
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a. Sino-Soviet relations 1949 - 1979
Immediately after 1949, China was supported economically by the Soviet Union. However, the underlying tensions between Stalin and Mao and between the nature of Soviet and Chinese communism quickly surfaced...
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1. Challenges to Ottoman Power in the early 19th Century
This page examines the challenges to the Ottoman Empire that took place in the early 19th Century. The growth of nationalism spurred independence movements in both Serbia and Greece and the rule of Muhammad...