Course: 2nd Grading Period

History of the Americas (HL): Higher level candidates are required to study one prescribed subject, two or three 20th century world history topics, one regional option, and undertake an historical investigation. The integrated syllabus outline is as follows …

Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, peacekeeping – international relations 1918-1936

20th Century World History Topics:

• No. 1: Causes, practices and effects of war
• No. 3: Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states

Regional Option: the Americas (completed during junior year; for review only)

Topics Covered: Timetable is subject to change and adjustment.

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Topic 1: Causes, practices and effects of war
Essays: 20th Century World History

1-2 First World War (1914 – 1918) 30-31

• “The Propaganda Front” (Chapter 31, Spirit)
• “The Face of War” (Chapter 31, Spirit)
• “Causes of World War I” (Chapter 3, TCW)
• “Battlefronts, 1914-1918” (Chapter 3, TCW)
• “Home Fronts, 1914-1918” (Chapter 3, TCW)

3-4 Second World War (1939 – 1945) 35-36

• “The Lend-Lease Controversy” (Chapter 35, Spirit)
• “War in the Atlantic” (Chapter 35, Spirit)
• “The Original Fascism: The Italian Model” (Chapter 6, TCW)
• “From Weimar Republic to Third Reich” (Chapter 6, TCW)
• “The Road to War” (Chapter 6, TCW)
• “War and American Society” (Chapter 36, Spirit)
• “Dropping the Atomic Bomb” (Chapter 36, Spirit)
• “From Phony War to Operation Barbarossa, 1939-1941” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• “The Japanese Bid for Empire and the U.S. Reaction, 1941-1942” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• “The Turning Points, 1942” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• “The Home Fronts” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• “The Defeat of the Axis, 1943-1945” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• “The Revolutionary Impact of World War II” (Chapter 10, TCW)
• Unit IV Exam – Fourth Week

5 Americas: Falklands/Malvinas war (1982) -

• “Military Dictatorship, 1974 – 1983” (Chapter 13, LA)

6 Americas: Nicaraguan Revolution (1976 – 1979) -

• “Nicaragua” (Chapter 18, LA)
• Unit V Exam

7 Asia and Oceania: Indo-Pakistan wars (1947 – 1949, 1965, 1971) -

• “India: Development Amid Underdevelopment” (Chapter 16, TCW)

8 Asia and Oceania: Chinese Civil War (1927 – 1937, 1946 – 1949) -

• “China and Japan: Contrasts in Development” (Chapter 9, TCW)*
• “China Under the Communists” (Chapter 16, TCW)

9 I Have Absolutely No Ideas! Why Do We Have an Extra Week?

10 IB Simulation II