History Exam Syllabus

IB History Route 2 (20th Century World History):

• PAPER 1:
  • Peacemaking, Peacekeeping - international relations 1918-36
    • the peace treaties after WWI
    • the League of Nations in the 1920s
    • Wall Street Crash/Depression
    • the League of Nations in the 1930s
• PAPER 2:(25% of grade)
  • Causes and Practices of war
    • causes, course,and effects of WWII
    • the Peace Treaties 
    • causes of the Chinese Civil War
    • causes and practices of WWII
  • Democratic States - challanges and responses
    • Weimar Germany
  • Origins and developments of authoritarian and signle-party states
    • Lenin, Stalin
    • Mao
    • Hitler
  • The Cold War
    • Yalta and Potsdam, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, and the fall of the USSR
    • Cold…