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Paper 2

Paper 3

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

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

(3 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)

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

SL - FREE

2 wks

Truman: McCarthyism and its social/cultural impact

(2 wks)

BUFFER - review nearer the time to ensure still on track for remainder of the course.

Mock exam revision

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)

Rise of Castro

(3 wks)

1 wk

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

The Berlin Crisis of 1961

(2 wks)

Writing the Internal Assessment First Draft

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

(2 wks)

Kennedy and the Vietnam War
(1 wk)

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

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

Conclusions on Kennedy
(2 wks)

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

SL - FREE
2 wks

Rule of Castro
(2 wks)

Mock exam revision

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)

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)