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Modern American History Curriculum Map

Curriculum Map for IST students - Exams Summer 2024 (for exams taking place in Summer 2025, click here).

 

Paper 1

Paper 2

With P3 overlaps noted

Paper 3

  Rights and Protest
(with overlap on HL Topic 17, SL Topic 8 - Evolution / Development of Democratic States)
Cold War / Authoritarian States / Causes, Practices, Effects of Wars Americas Option

Autumn 1
(7 wks)

 

 

Political Ideologies Unit

(2 wks) - OPTIONAL

 

 

Cold War: Origins
To 1945 | To 1949
(4 wks)

 

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Autumn 2
(6 wks)
 

Second Chinese Civil War, 1946-49

OR

Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 Causes | Events

(3 wks)

 

SL - FREE

3 wks

Korean War: Cause, Course, Consequence
(3 wks)

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Spring 1
(6 wks)

Apartheid South Africa (1948-1964)
(6 wks)


 

 

Holiday Work

 

Spring 2
(7 wks)

 

Mao's China, 1949-76

(3 wks)

 

SL - FREE

2 wks

Truman: McCarthyism and its social/cultural impact

(2 wks - P2 impact of Cold War on one country, with Cuba later being the second)

Civil rights movement in the United States
(1954-1960)

(2 wks)
   

Holiday Work

Mock exam revision

Summer
(8 wks, but heavily disrupted due to internal exams, bank holidays, residential trip - usually just four weeks of full teaching)

 

Rise of Castro

(2 wks)

 

SL - FREE

2 wks

Eisenhower: The "New Look"

Cover Truman and Latin America if not yet covered.

Have a particular stress on Arbenz and the causes for his overthrow - i.e. an elected / populist leader in Latin America; lose as much of the non-American stuff as possible to streamline this, note that Vietnam is covered later on in this curriculum map.
(2 wks)

 

The Berlin Crisis of 1961

(1 wk)


 

SL - FREE

1 wk

Kennedy's Alliance for Progress
(Revisiting Latin America, including the Bay of Pigs to lead into the Vienna Summit)

Holiday Work

Writing the Internal Assessment First Draft

Autumn 1
(7 wks)

 

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

(2 wks)

 

 

The Vietnam War under Ike to Kennedy

Nb - cover Vietnam so that SL have 'Cold War impact on one country' with Cuba being the second.

(2 wks)

 

Civil rights movement in the United States
(1961-1963)

Conclusions on Kennedy
(2 wks)

 

 

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Autumn 2
(6 wks)

Civil rights movement in the United States
(1964-1965)

(1 wk)

   

SL - FREE
2 wks

Radical African American Activism

(1965-c.1975)
(2 wks)

 

Rule of Castro
(2 wks)

 

Holiday Work

Mock exam revision

Spring 1
(6 wks; reduced to 4 after mocks/feedback)

 

Vietnam War (LBJ / Nixon)
(2 wks)

 

SL - FREE
c.3 wks


Chile: Allende and Pinochet to 1973
HL: Rise of ONE military dictatorship (Pinochet); rule of a populist leader (Allende) to compare to Castro.

Rule of Pinochet

HL: Rule of ONE military dictatorship for P3.

(c.3 wks)

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Spring 2
(7 wks)

 

Nixon's other Foreign Policy

Note: Vietnam and Chile already covered, and the China stuff will be a review of the Mao topic too.
(1 wk)

 

SL - FREE
2 wks

Feminism in the Americas

+Counterculture movements

(2 wks)

3-4 weeks of revision, including
Rise of Dictators Compared / Rule of Dictators Compared Project and Origins of War investigation (revisits Rise of Dictators from a different angle - (3 wks)

Peron or Vargas would be great for HL...

Paper 2 Checklist:
Rise/Rule of dictators
- Castro v. Mao

Cold War - Leaders (Kennedy v. Khrushchev); Crises (CMC v. Berlin 1961); Impact (Cuba v. Vietnam);
Wars - Vietnam, Chinese Civil, Cuban Civil(?)

 


 


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