IB History: ActiveHistory
An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a two-year IBDP History course from start to finish using the ActiveHistory IB History Hub.
These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.
Use the ActiveHistory curriculum maps and the ActiveHistory syllabus topics to design your own course effectively.
We also have you covered for the Internal Assessment, Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge in History, not to mention Essay and Sourcework Skills, IBDP History Model Essays and IBDP History Sample Sourcework Exercises / Model answers!
Modern American History Curriculum Map
| Curriculum Map for IST students - Exams Summer 2024 (for exams taking place in Summer 2025, click here). | |||
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Paper 1 |
Paper 2With 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 |
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Political Ideologies Unit (2 wks) - OPTIONAL |
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Holiday Work |
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| Autumn 2 (6 wks) |
Second Chinese Civil War, 1946-49 OR Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 Causes | Events (3 wks) |
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SL - FREE 3 wks |
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 1 |
Apartheid South Africa (1948-1964)
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 2 |
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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) |
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| Civil rights movement in the United States (1954-1960) (2 wks) |
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Holiday Work |
Mock exam revision |
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Summer |
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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. |
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SL - FREE 1 wk |
Kennedy's Alliance for Progress |
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Holiday Work |
Writing the Internal Assessment First Draft |
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Autumn 1 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (2 wks) |
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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) |
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Civil rights movement in the United States Conclusions on Kennedy |
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Holiday Work |
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| Autumn 2 (6 wks) |
Civil rights movement in the United States |
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SL - FREE |
Radical African American Activism (1965-c.1975) |
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Rule of Castro |
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Holiday Work |
Mock exam revision |
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Spring 1 |
Vietnam War (LBJ / Nixon) |
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SL - FREE
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Chile: Allende and Pinochet to 1973 HL: Rule of ONE military dictatorship for P3. (c.3 wks) |
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 2 |
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Note: Vietnam and Chile already covered, and the China stuff will be a review of the Mao topic too. |
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| SL - FREE 2 wks |
+Counterculture movements (2 wks) |
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3-4 weeks of revision, including Peron or Vargas would be great for HL... |
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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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