IB History Revision / Resources

IB HistoryWorksheets, Simulations and Quizzes for teaching IB History are available here!

We teach Higher Level and Standard Level candidates in one class, over two years. So we choose topics which overlap Paper 2&3 as far as possible.

The topics highlighted in blue link to worksheets, simulations and IB History Revision resources. These will continue to grow over the coming months.

If you have any questions / suggestions, or have an alternative model you would like to share, please contact me using the feedback form.

You may also wish to check out the Interactive Revision Games section of this site, and the Testimonies page!


Quick IB History Links:

The Format of the IB History Examination / IB History Past Paper Questions / Exam Tips

IB History Study Guides

IB History Curriculum Grid / Worksheets / Revision / Games

IB History - The Internal Assessment


 

The IB History Examination

Paper 1 of the IB History examination

...focuses heavily on the use of sources as historical evidence. Students will choose to answer questions in this IB History paper relating to just one of the following three 'Prescribed Subjects'

1. The USSR under Stalin, 1924-41 [IB History resources] [IB History Study Guide]
2. China in the era of Mao 1946-64    
3. The Cold War 1960-79 [IB History resources] [IB History Study Guide]

I have produced a handout:

Student Tips: IB History Sourcework.

 

Paper 2 of the IB History examination

...is essay based. Students are presented with six IB History Topic areas, and in each of these they are presented with four possible essay questions. Students only have to answer two questions in total from this IB History paper, but they cannot be from within the same IB History Topic area. The six IB History Topic areas are as follows:

1. Causes, Practices and Effects of War
[IB History past Questions]
[IB History Study Guide - World War One]
[IB History Study Guide - Spanish Civil War]

2. Nationalist and Independence Movements, Decolonisation and Challenges Facing New States

3. The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States
[IB History past Questions]
[IB History Study Guide - Tsarist / Revolutionary Russia
]
[IB History Study Guide - Stalin's USSR]

4. Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states
[IB History Study Guide]
[IB History past Questions]

5. The Cold War
[IB History Study Guide]
[IB History past Questions]

6. The State and its Relationship with Religion and with Minorities

Student Tips: IB History Essay Skills.

Student Tips: "Challenging the assumptions of the question" in Level 7 of the mark scheme.

 

Paper 3 of the IB History examination

...(for Higher Level Students only) is again essay based. For this IB History paper, students study one Regional Option, or a period of about a hundred years within a specific region. The region chosen is usually, but by no means always, the one in which the school is located. The available regions are Europe, the Americas, Africa, East Asia and West Asia.
[IB History Paper 3 Past Questions: European Option]

Student Tips: IB History Essay Skills.

Student Tips: "Challenging the assumptions of the question" in Level 7 of the mark scheme.


IB History Study Guides

IB History Study Guide: World War One

IB History Study Guide: Tsarist and Revolutionary Russia to 1924

IB History Study Guide: Stalin's Russia to 1953

IB History Study Guide: The Cold War to 1961

IB History Study Guide: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39


IB History Curriculum Grid / Worksheets / Revision / Games

 IB History Topics *

 

(*click each for worksheets, quizzes and other resources!)

IB History: Paper 1

IB History: Paper 2*

(*click each IB History Topic title for past IB History questions!)

IB History: Paper 3

(*click each IB History Topic title for resources; click here for past paper questions)

IB History Activities

IB History - Topic 1:
World War One
Causes, Course and Consequences

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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

IB History Topic 14:
Causes, Course and Effects of World War One

Revision Games / Simulations
Interactive Simulation: Life in the Trenches

IB History - Topic 2:
Russia 1894-1924
The Rule of Nicholas II of Russia

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IB History Topic 13:
Tsarist Russia to Communist USSR (1894-1929)

IB History Topic 16:
Totalitarian Europe 1922-1953: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia

IB History Topic 19:
USSR, 1941-1995
(although I only go up to the death of Stalin, 1953)

 

Revision Games / Simulations
A Virtual Tour Around Tsarist Russia

Decision-Making Simulation: Russia under Lenin

Head2Head Interview with Josef Stalin!

Soviet Economy Simulator

Worksheets
Tsar Nicholas II / Russian Revolution
Lenin's Russia
Stalin's USSR

The Russian Revolution

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T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

Russia / USSR under Lenin, including the Russian Civil War

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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

IB History - Topic 3:
USSR under Stalin, 1924-1953

T1. The USSR, 1924-41

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

IB History - Topic 4:
Europe 1919-45: The League of Nations and the Causes of WW2:
1920s,

1929,

1930s.

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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

T4: Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states

IB History IB History Topic 15:
The interwar years, 1919-29; 1929; 1929-39

IB History Topic 18:
The Second World War, 1939-45: Cause, Course and Consequences

Decision-Making game: The League in the 1920s

The Wall St. Crash Simulation: Can You Make a Fortune?!

What Caused World War Two? - Interactive Investigation

IB History - Topic 5:
The Spanish Civil War and the rise of Franco

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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

IB History Topic 17:
Iberian Peninsula in 20th Century

 

IB History - Topic 6:
The Chinese Civil War and the rule of Mao

T2: China 1946-64

T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

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IB History - Topic 7:
The Cold War, inc. Korea and Vietnam

T3: The Cold War 1960-79

T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

T5: The Cold War

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Revision Games / Simulations
Interactive Simulation: The Vietnam War

Worksheets
The Cold War

 


The IB History Syllabus also allows for the study of other topics, which I do not currently teach at IB but which I have prepared materials for if you wish to use them:

 

IB History: Paper 2*

(*click each IB History Topic title for past questions!)

IB History: Paper 3

 
Germany under Bismarck and the Kaisers
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IB History Topic 7:
Prussia / Germany 1862-1918

Revision Games / Simulations
Arcade Revision Games: Bismarck

Worksheets
Bismarck
Wilhelm II

Russia under the Tsars, 1855-1894
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IB History Topic 8:
Russia and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 19th Century

Revision Games / Simulations
A Virtual Tour Around Tsarist Russia

Worksheets
Alexander II / III

Weimar Germany 1919-33

T4: Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states

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Revision Games / Simulations
Can you save the Weimar Republic? Part 1 | Part 2

Worksheets
German Economic Development

The Weimar Republic

Germany 1933-1995

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

T4: Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states

IB History Topic 16:
Totalitarian Europe 1922-1953: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia

IB History Topic 20:
Post-war Europe to 1995

Revision Games / Simulations
Head2Head Virtual Interview with Adolf Hitler

James Spod: Undercover in Nazi Germany!

Worksheets
Nazi Germany

German Economic Development

Germany, 1945-66

USSR 1941-1995 T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States IB History Topic 19:
USSR, 1941-1995
Worksheets
USSR under Khrushchev and Brezhnev

 


The Internal Assessment at IB History

The Internal Assessment at IB History level is an individual study which accounts for 20% of final mark for Higher Level students, and 25% for Standard Level students. It is a study of 1500-2000 word essay on a topic of the student's own choice.

Student Handout: How should the IB History Internal Assessment be structured?

Teacher Reference sheet: Sample markscheme for the IB History Internal Assessment (not to be used as a substitute for the official IB sheet!)


For IB Geography, I recommend the excellent:
IB Geography

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