This grid reflects how we teach IB History at the International School of Toulouse.

We teach Higher Level and Standard Level candidates in one class, over two years. So we choose topics which overlap Paper 1&2 as far as possible.

The topics highlighted in blue link to worksheets, simulations and resources. Over the next 12 months I will add resources for all the topics listed here.

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 Games section of this site, and the Testimonies page!

 

IB History: Paper 1

IB History: Paper 2*

(*click each topic title for past questions!)

IB History: Paper 3

Top Activities!

Topic 1:
World War One
Causes, Course and Consequences
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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War

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

Games / Simulations
Interactive Simulation: Life in the Trenches

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

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

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

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

 

Games / Simulations
A Virtual Tour Around Tsarist Russia

Decision-Making Simulation: Russia under Lenin

Head2Head Interview with Josef Stalin!

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

Topic 3:
USSR under Stalin, 1924-1953

T1. The USSR, 1924-41

T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States

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

Topic 15:
The interwar years, 1919-39

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

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

Topic 17:
Iberian Peninsula in 20th Century

 
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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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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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 1

IB History: Paper 2*

(*click each topic title for past questions!)

IB History: Paper 3

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

Games / Simulations
Arcade Games: Bismarck

Worksheets
Bismarck
Wilhelm II

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

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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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

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

Topic 20:
Post-war Europe to 1995

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 Topic 19:
USSR, 1941-1995
Worksheets
USSR under Khrushchev and Brezhnev

 


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