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IB History Syllabus

What with 'Terms' and 'Units', 'Topics' and 'Subjects', understanding the IB History syllabus is difficult enough even before we come on to the History content! The table below attempts to show how the IST Units correspond to the IB syllabus and examination paper.

 IST Units

IB Standard/Higher Level Syllabus

Examination Papers 1 and 2

IB Higher Level European Option Syllabus

Examination Paper 3

Unit 1

WWI: causes and consequences

1890-1929

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – The First World War (named ‘example for detailed study’)

 

Subject 14 - The causes, course and effects of the First World War
Unit 2 

Russia

1894-1924

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – The Russian Civil War  (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Paper 2, Topic 3 – ‘The rise and rule of single-party states’ – Lenin (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Subject 13 - Tsarist Russia to Communist USSR (1894 – 1929)

Unit 3

Stalin’s Russia

1924-1953

Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 1- The USSR, 1924 to 1941

Paper 2, Topic 3 – ‘The rise and rule of single-party states’ – Stalin  (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Subject 13 - Tsarist Russia to Communist USSR (1894 – 1929)

Subject 16 - Totalitarian Europe, 1922 to 1953: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia (1928-53)

Subject 19 - USSR, 1941 to 1995

Unit 4

Europe

1919-45

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – The Second World War (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Paper 2, Topic 4 - Peace and cooperation: international organizations and multiparty states – League of Nations (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Subject 15 - The inter-war years, 1919 to 1939

Subject 18 - The Second World War, 1939 to 1945: causes, course and consequences

Unit 5

Iberian Peninsula in the 20th century

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – Spanish Civil War (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Paper 2, Topic 3 – ‘The rise and rule of single-party states’ – Franco

Subject 17 - Iberian Peninsula in the 20th century
Unit 6

China

1911-1976

Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 2 - China, 1946 to 1964

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – Chinese Civil War (named ‘example for detailed study’)

Paper 2, Topic 3 – ‘The rise and rule of single-party states’ – Mao Zedong (named ‘example for detailed study’)

NA
Unit 7

The Cold War

1945-1991

Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3—The Cold War, 1960 to 1979

Paper 2, Topic 1 – ‘Causes, practices and effects of war’ – Korean War and Vietnam War  (both named ‘examples for detailed study’)

Paper 2, Topic 5 – The Cold War

NA

   

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