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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)

 

 

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

 

 

Second Chinese Civil War and the Rise of Mao, 1946-49

(3 wks)

 

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Autumn 2
(6 wks)

SL - FREE

2 wks

Truman's Foreign Policy

With an emphasis on his impact on the region

Note: Briefly cover Korean War, but don't over-teach it.
(2 wks)

 

Mao's China, 1949-76

(4 wks)

Note: I could alternate these two topics over several weeks, or have 3 lessons SL, 1 lesson HL each week.

Holiday Work

 

 

 

Spring 1
(6 wks)

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


 

 

Holiday Work

 

Spring 2
(7 wks)

SL - FREE

2 wks

Truman: McCarthyism and its social/cultural impact

(2 wks)

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

(2 wks)

 

 

 

Rise of Castro

(3 wks)

 

 

Holiday Work

Mock exam revision

Summer
(8 wks, but heavily disrupted)

SL - FREE

2 wks

Eisenhower: The "New Look"
(2 wks)

 

The Berlin Crisis of 1961

(2 wks)

 

SL - FREE

1 wk

Kennedy's Alliance for Progress
(1 wk)

Holiday Work

Writing the Internal Assessment First Draft

Autumn 1
(7 wks)

 

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

(2 wks)

 

 

Kennedy and the Vietnam War
(1 wk)

 

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)

SL - FREE
3 wks

Nixon's Foreign Policy

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

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...Also the end of the Cold War would be great if it could be fit in

 


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