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IBDP History Curriculum Map
This curriculum map is used at the International School of Toulouse and represents only a fraction of the topics covered on ActiveHistory. For a full list of topics and resources provided, check out the ActiveHistory IBDP History Hub. |
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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 | |
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Second Chinese Civil War and the Rise of Mao, 1946-49 (3 wks) |
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Holiday Work |
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SL - FREE 2 wks |
With an emphasis on his impact on the region Note: Briefly cover Korean War, but don't over-teach it. |
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Note: I could alternate these two topics over several weeks, or have 3 lessons SL, 1 lesson HL each week. | ||
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 |
SL - FREE 2 wks |
Truman: McCarthyism and its social/cultural impact (2 wks) |
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| Civil rights movement in the United States (1954-1960) (2 wks) |
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BUFFER - review nearer the time to ensure still on track for remainder of the course. |
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Holiday Work |
Mock exam revision |
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Summer |
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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Kennedy and the Vietnam War Nb - cover Vietnam so that SL have 'Cold War impact on one country' with Cuba being the second. |
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Civil rights movement in the United States Conclusions on Kennedy |
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Holiday Work |
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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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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 |
SL - FREE |
Note: Vietnam and Chile already covered, and the China stuff will be a review of the Mao topic too. |
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+Counterculture movements (2 wks) |
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3-4 weeks of revision, including 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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