Proposed IBDP History Curriculum Map from ActiveHistory > Exams 2028
Paper 1 > Protest and ChangeFeminism in the USA (1960-1979) | Revolution in Tunisia (1989-2015)Paper 2 > Authoritarian RuleMao (region 1) | Castro (region 2)Paper 3 Americas > Option 9 + Option 119/ Americas during the Cold War | 11. Social movements in the Americas |
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Paper 3 |
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Authoritarian Rule (Mao, Castro) |
Americas ( Options 9+11) |
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Autumn 1 |
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P2: Authoritarian Rule (Region 1: Non-Americas) OR Rise of Dictators individual projects (could be a nice induction project and avoids 'overkill' with Mao), focusing on the new Paper 2 bullet points. |
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SL - 2 WEEKS FREE Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Truman's Foreign Policy (2 wks) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War Truman’s containment policy Rio Pact, Organization of American States (OAS) and regional collaboration (focus on Cuba) US intervention in Latin America, including role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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Holiday Work |
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| Autumn 2 (6 wks) |
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Mao's China, 1949-76 (4 wks) P2: Authoritarian Rule (Region 1: Non-Americas) |
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SL - 2 WEEKS FREE Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Truman: McCarthyism and its social/cultural impact (2 wks) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War McCarthyism |
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 1 |
Rise of Castro (3 wks) P2: Authoritarian Rule (Region 2: Americas) (+HL 10: Reasons for the Cuban Revolution) Domestic political impact of the Cold War Cooperation and tension with the USA Hemispheric reactions to the revolution Diplomatic impact on Latin American countries |
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SL - 2 WEEKS FREE Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week.
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Civil rights movement in the United States (2 wks) Option 11: Social movements in the Americas |
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 2 |
Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Eisenhower: The "New Look" (2 wks) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War Eisenhower’s New Look policy |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (2 wks) Option 9: Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis (not strictly neessary for P2, but a good story and I can't have them out of lessons the whole half term!) |
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SL - 1 WEEK FREE Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Kennedy's Alliance for Progress (1 wk) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress |
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Holiday Work |
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Summer |
Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Civil rights movement in the United States (2 wks) Option 11: Social movements in the Americas |
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Rule of Castro (4 wks) P2: Authoritarian Rule (Region 2: Americas) (+HL 10: Maintenance of power / impact of rule of Castro) (+HL 9: Impact of the Cold War on one country in Latin America): Domestic political impact of the Cold War | Cooperation and tension with the USA | Cooperation and tension with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) |
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Holiday Work |
Writing the Internal Assessment First Draft |
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Autumn 1 |
Tunisian Revolution (4 wks) P1 Protest and Change (+P2 Popular Movements) |
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SL - 3 WEEKS FREE Note: this free time might be spread across several weeks so we can alterate between SL / HL topics each week. |
Civil rights movement in the United States (1 wk) Option 11: Social movements in the Americas |
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Radical African American Activism (2 wks) Option 11: Social movements in the Americas |
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Holiday Work |
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Autumn 2 (7 wks) |
SL - 3 WEEKS FREE |
LBJ in the Dominican Republic / Vietnam War (2 wks) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War Domestic impact of Johnson’s policy in Vietnam Regional support for, and opposition to, US involvement in Vietnam |
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Feminism in the USA (4 wks) P1 Protest and Change; Option 11: Social movements in the Americas +Counterculture movements if time to open up more Option 11 possibilities |
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Holiday Work |
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Spring 1 |
SL - 4 WEEKS FREE |
Impact of US foreign policies in the Americas (1968-1988) (4 wks) Option 9: Americas during the Cold War School of the Americas and the Condor Plan |
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3-4 weeks of revision, including |
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Comments / Observations from Russel Tarr (ActiveHistory)
Russel Tarr (ActiveHistory):
Additional bonus overlaps:
Studying Castro for P2 / P3 Option 9 also opens up possible questions in P3 Americas Option 10 "Political developments in Latin America"
Studying the Tunisian Revolution and Feminism in the USA for Paper 1 "Protest and Change", as well as Civil Rights for P3 Option 9, aslo opens up possibilities for P2 "Popular Movements".
By this token, it would be possible to reduce the content of this curriculum map even further by formally replacing the P2 option "Authoritarian Rule" with "Popular Movements". This would enable the removal of the rise / rule of Mao and much of (but not all) of the Castro topics altogether. However, this would make for a pretty 'thin' syllabus in terms of content coverage...maybe something to consider after the first cycle of the syllabus is complete!
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