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2. Aims and results of policies
This essay uses the examples of Hitler's Germany and Mao's China Compare and contrast the impact on women of the policies of two authoritarian states, each chosen from a different region. This essay was...
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Cold War Crises: Review
Task One ATL: Thinking and self-management skills This grid covers some of the crises suggested by the IB curriculum, though there may be other crises that you wish to cover. This grid could be completed...
The IB Core
TOK teaching ideas
As already discussed, we naturally cover many TOK issues and concepts in our teaching of history; the IB history course also encourages the discussion of wider, philosophical questions which also complement...
The IB Core
TOK from 2020
See below for an overview of the TOK course from 2020. Even if you are not directly teaching TOK, it is helpful to understand the TOK course so that you can make meaningful links to it in your History...
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Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
As History teachers we are required to make links to TOK, helping students to see the interconnectedness of their learning. But of course, we are dealing with TOK issues all of the time in the history...
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6. Balkan conflicts in the 1990s: Part 2
In 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina also declared independence from Serbia thus beginning the bloodiest of the Balkan conflicts. This page examines the reasons, course and consequence of this war. It also examines...
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5. Balkan conflicts in the 1990s: Part 1
Between 1991 and 2001 there were a series of wars in Yugoslavia that led to the break-up of the former communist state. As the former constituent republics declared independence from the federal state,...
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August: Back to school and Cold War anniversaries Free
We hope that those of you returning to school in August after the long vacation will be back full-time in the classroom for this year - or at least will have only a short period of on-line learning....
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5. Collective security in the 1920s and 1930s
While it can be argued that there were definitely some successes for the League in the 1920s, most historians agree that the 1930s saw the idea of collective security failing to maintain peace or to resolve...
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7. Events in Europe up to 1941
Hitler’s actions over Czechoslavakia put Europe on the brink of war. It was clear that Poland would be Hitler’s next target. Britain and France had failed to respond to the occupation of Czechoslovakia,...