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Hi everyone. We have a history teacher who is new to IB and is not really sure about what's going on. Unfortunately, our lovely school has failed to provide us with any text books either- and I am planning on buying some abroad when I go for break. What text books are essential, and which books do I need to cover the topics that I need for IB? Desperate.
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As far as i know, the Great Leap Forward was equivalent to the Five-Year plans, except the changes were slower after the devastating effects of the 5YP on Russia. My teacher said that the 100 flowers campaign helped Mao regain power when he was pushed to the 'backbench' or out of memory. But i dont really get what happened or how it does this. If i remember correctly i remember students being sent into the countryside to teach and to smash antique items (i may be getting this confused with the 'cultural revolution'. We covered China, but it's a very confusing topic compared to Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. None of my class are really confident with China. Tony
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I have been hesitating to post this on the internet, but I feel that I really need the help to just decide my IA topic! My teacher told us to choose the question by the last week of March, and most of my classmates already have a set topic, but me being the indecisive type, I could not settle on just one topic.. I was interested in aspects about Japan and WW2, and wanted to focus on a topic there, but I am not sure if my question is too specific? I have always been very interested in the Asian region for my IA, because my grandparents have personally been through the war. I have researched a fair amount, but most of the research done was on wikipedia, and I have no clue a…
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This is probably a really dumb question, but as I'm organizing my HL History of the Americas notes better for easier studying I've been using my syllabus to group my notes by Paper. So I have a divider for Paper 1, Paper 2, and Paper 3 topics. Because I have Math SL Paper 2 and History HL Paper 1 on the same day so I want to know what topics are necessary that I study for that day's History exam. However, I have like a ton of notes of the presidents. At least 2 pages per President from late 1800's to Clinton or George H.W. Bush. The notes are basically on their foreign and domestic policies, major things they did, etc. So I was wondering which Paper those would be tested…
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Hi guys. So in our History class last year, where we were supposed to cover units for History Paper 3...we didn't. Now, the exam is coming up really soon and I have no clue where to start studying for Paper 3. Can someone point me to helpful resources online? Also, which topics are the easiest? I think last year we tried to do Civil Rights Movement, Mexican Revolution, and the Civil War era, but nothing really came of it. Thanks!
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Hey guys! I have a question concerning the option The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1924-2000. Do you know where I can find some notes and what should I focus on while revising it? We don't have a book that would cover these topics precisely. I know that a lot overlaps with Cold War but I still feel like I lack sufficient materials to revise.
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Paper 2 rules
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Is it actually possible to answer two essay questions in the same option in paper 2? I have Cold War and Authoritarian Single-Party States and I am on HL. I really hope that's true that I can just focus on one of the two options ...
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Hey guys, I would appreciate it if someone can give me a general plan of how to write a really good paper 2. I need guides for my papers, for example in English I know I have to write a 5-paragraph essay, otherwise my paper is going to be really chaotic... Thanks for your help! Kind regards Anka
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Hello guys, I would like to ask if the question asksabout domestic policy does it include economic policy. My teacher says that domestic policy means social policy. But I am confused, because domestic policy I thought meant policies internal to the country so wouldnt that include all policies except foreign policy? In the authoritarian states textbook it includes economic under domestic. I am a bit confused at the conflicting information.
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I am a bit stuck with the topic for my History IA. I want to do something like "To what extent was the 1905 a "dress rehearsal" for 1917?" however this seems way too broad. Any ideas of how i could focus it?
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Hello, I am writing this to ask for any tips you can think of for revising for the history papers, i have made extensive notes for nearly each topic (i'm continuing these). Although, these notes aren't full revision, because there's too much stuff to remember, some sections have 7 pages. Impossible to revise all the stuff from these. I was going to then look through notes and write revision cards of the main facts/factors to remember for each section. I am also planning to do many past papers, so that answer as a tip isn't needed because i plan to church out practice essays for my teacher to mark so i can improve on them. Thank you, any help is greatly appreciated. Tony
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I am at the moment writing my history IA and my topic is the first gulf war (1990-1991). I been having some trouble with my research question.. Do anyone have any suggestions? :-)
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I want to do Internal Assessment in history about Cuban Revolution, Do you think it's a good idea? If yes can you help me with my research question? or do you have any other suggestions about another topic, which would be interesting? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE BEST REGARDS ANNA
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Hi everybody I am having troubles with coming up with a RQ for my historical investigation, and the pressure certainly doesn't decrease with time, as you all probably know. I did choose a topic - I want to write my Historival Investigation on the My Lai massacre, committed by US soldiers during the Vietnam War. What I'm struggling with is, as I said, coming up with a good RQ. Here are some of my ideas 1. Was the My Lai massacre a turning point for the public opinion on the Vietnam War 2. Was the My Lai massacre a turning point for the US soldier's opinion's on the Vietnam War 3.What was the influence of the media coverage of the My Lai massacre on public opinion on…
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Why was Italy unified as a monarch? What are some historian quotes related to Italian unification and German unification? What kind of questions do you expect from these two topics for the May exams?
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Hey ever one I am taking history SL, and I am facing a lot of difficulty, I have never ever got 6 in any paper, my teacher is so stricted that it seem impossible to get 7 in history, I need advice conring how to study history, like what should I do so I can get high mark
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I'm in IB Euro HL. I have been reading some forums and people keep mentioning using historian quotes. I test in May. My teacher has never mentioned this. Can someone explain?
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Hi, I teach history just outside Munich. My site is mostly on remaining Nazi architecture in Germany, but I have thrown in lots of resources for my students over the past decade- past exam questions with student samples hyperlinked: http://www.tracesofevil.com/p/old-ib-history-exam-questions.html Historians and quotes- http://www.tracesofevil.com/p/historians-quotes.html and the links at the bottom provide past EE and IA samples and guides.
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Hello all, We have been covering quite a bit in IB history and exams are now a month away. However, I would like to know, what is the minimum I need to know to be able to tackle the exams? - How many wars do I need to know? (How many different regions? Types of wars?) - How many dictators? (Right wing/Left Wing)
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Hi, I am a philosophy SL student and I have noticed that all of my IB certified textbooks use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) as opposed to the more common BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini). Do any of you know, preferably from experience, if you lose marks or are penalised for using BC/AD in essays or IAs? My personal preference is BC/AD so I would like to know whether I am permitted to use it and why the IB favours one or the other. I remember in MYP I had a teacher who would encourage the class to use BCE/CE and even crossed out BC/AD and replace it with BCE/CE if I ever used it in my essays but I do not know if that was simply my teacher's personal pr…
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History Paper 3 Interwar Years
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Hello everybody, I am starting to revise for History and I start with HL topics first since they count for 35% of my final grade. I am done for Post-war Middle East and I have covered for every single point in the syllabus. However, it took me a little over a week. Now I am at Inter-war Years which is harder to understand for me. I have so far covered Weimar Republic and I will defianately cover Hitler and Mussolini. My problem is that I cannot "have more longer time" for each topic since I have other subjects to revise and I want to think strategically instead of revise everything and be completely lost. I think I will skip Spanish Civil War. and perhaps one more topic b…
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Is there a specific way to write essays for IB History? Currently I am given 45 minutes to write whatever I want, but no actual structure was ever established besides being required to have at least two body paragraphs, whereas for AP Human Geo and AP World History I was given a set structure for each essay/SAQ.
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I received a 20/25 what does that translate to?
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Rules for paper 3
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Is it allowed to answer two questions from the same topic and then the third in an another topic? So you basically could learn two topics well instead of three. I just could not find explicit answer for this.
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How do you cite direct communications? (Does it count as personal citation?) My book says "Direct communication with Dr. Joe, New York, (and some publisher name)" There's no year and month. How do I cite this?
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Hello everyone, I'm doing my EE in History, and my topic is Catherine the Great. My research question is the following: "What personal, political and artistic achievements have helped Catherine of Russian gain the title of "the Great"?" So my EE final draft is due on tuesday. I've finished it (still need to work a little bit on it for it to be absolutely perfect) and I couldn't help but wonder... is my research question to broad? I really want to get bonus points, and I would absolutely HATE to lose points because of my research question. I honestly wouldn't mind rewriting some parts of it... Because when you honestly think about it, my essay is kind of a biography of Cat…
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Alright so my current question for my IA is "How did American Mafia in the 1920s impact Medellin Drug Cartel in the 1970s?" And I had fine time finding similarities and differences between the two, but the issue is that that is all my paper is. I can't find any sources talking about any sort of impact that the American Mafia had Medellin Drug Cartel, but they are so similar that it there is no way it wasn't in some way impacted. So my question is what should I do? It is too late in the game to drastically change my question but I'm afraid that writing about the similarities and differences between the two, though I have plenty to write about, is too basic. I need help…
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Hi guys, I would like to ask for some help, I am trying to plan different essays for different topics. I am having trouble with the topic comparing the 1905, February 1917 and October 1917 revolutions. The basic idea i have is that 1905 wasnt much of a revolution, more of an outcry for change and some facts, I would include are like the sailors did revolt like at Kronstadt but the army remained loyal and it wasnt organised (and other facts along the same line) The February 1917 revolution i would say isnt organised but more of an outcry as excacerbated by WW1 and poverty and food and fuel shortages and both the army and navy revolted (unlike 1905 where it was only the nav…
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What can we expect in the Paper 2 Questions? I am specifically referring to topic 3: Origins and methods of authoritarian states and topic 5: Cold War, however I obviously understand not everyone are studying these two.
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Hello there! I'm in the very early stages of planning my historical investigation, and I've heard that you can focus on a particular piece of evidence (e.g. a novel), and its relevance in studying an event/situation. This appeals to me because I love literature, so to combine it with history would be great, but I'm not sure if this is an advisable way of going about the IA? Would it be harder to get a good grade with this approach? I was thinking of doing it on colonialism in Africa, and I thought maybe I could use Heart of Darkness by Conrad as the main focus. I know this is currently pretty vague, but I don't want to get too involved if it won't work. Just looking for…
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So im in IB Year 1, and im taking HL History. Naturally, we're doing one semester in this year, and we were assigned an IA, which wont be going to IB, but will be marked by our teacher (practice i guess for next year). As of right now, im debating between investigating the causes of either: 1) the spanish civil war or 2) the chinese civil war. There are lots of topics but i found these to be interesting, and easy in terms of credible sources. However, there is the option to make our very own topic too.. I need help picking one of the two wars (as i really have no greater liking of one over the other) based on any criteria or advise, or make a new topic as a possibility.…
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Hey, I've been attempting to form a history research question for my IA, but I've been having some trouble. I would like to do something that is related to Fort Sumter (the first battle of the American Civil War) and its effect on the outcome of the war? Could anyone help me out in any way?
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My History teacher said that my initial research question "To what extent were the Kent State shootings a turning point in the vietnam war?" invalid. I'd like to do something with the mexican revolution if I cant do that. Any suggestions?
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Should I start revising for History or Psychology?
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Hi everyone, So I currently have mocks this week but I will study for final exams and not mocks so I know at least I won't cover everything in a short period of time. However, I feel that I do not know what to start revising up to either Histry first or Psychology? So for History I have for Paper 1: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Paper 2: Cold War, Origins and development of authoritarian single-party states (Mao, Stalin, Peron and Hitler) and for paper 3: Imperial Russia, Interwar Year: conflict and cooperation 1919-39 and Post-war developments in the Middle East 1945-2000. To be quite frank I actually prefer studying History first since it does not have any clear learning o…
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Hi All, I have just done two history past papers essay questions and have just typed it all up now [paper 2]. I was wondering if anyone was willing to mark it? Of course, it would be best if someone whom had finished IB history to mark it, but I would appreciate it if anyone would be willing and able to do so. All I'm looking for is a mark out of 20, I wouldn't ask for feedback Thanks,
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Just wondering how other May 2014 candidates (particularly those doing Route 2 history) are studying I'm probably not going to study Peacekeeping (i.e. Paper 1) For Paper 2, I'm planning to study causes of WW1, WW2 as well as causes/reasons for failure of the Chinese Civil War and the Origin of Cold War I've looked through 5 years of past papers, and there's always one questions on the causes of war and one on the origin of the cold war. Anyone thinks this is too risky? My teacher taught Weimar Germany up to the death of Hitler as well as Mao's rule over China but I don't think I'll have enough time to cover it but at the same time, I'm scared that there wouldn't be a …
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Hi everyone! We've just started our last topic, The Cold War, only it now turns out that our new teacher isn't helping us much with this at all. So far she claims that we've covered the origins of the Cold War, but the entire class is completely at a loss as to what happened! So, I was wondering if anyone has any notes they may be able to send me? They could be regarding the origins or just the Cold War in general. Or, if you would be able to explain some of the causes to me, that would be massively appreciated! Thank you very much!
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Hi guys, i would like to ask if anyone knows the dates that Mikhail Reutern was finance minister for Tsarist Russia. Also I have made my own notes, especially on Witte, but it's quite confusing which finance minister did different policies, e.g. it was Bunge who set up the Peasants' Land Bank, Witte did a lot to modernise between Alexander III and Nicholas II's reign. if anyone thinks they could explain the chronology, because i'm finding it a bit confusing which reforms were done by which minister during the reign of which tsar. Reutern is during Alex II's time, Bunge, Vyshnegradsky, and Witte are all during Alex III's while Witte is also in Nicholas II's. To explain my …
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Need notes for paper 3 :c
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Hi guys, I was just wondering if anybody had notes for paper 3 (hl) for history ? I've been searching and I can't find anything We're doing Asia I guess since we've seen China and Japan but I can't find notes :/ In case anyone has any would they mind sharing? Thank you very much
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Hi everyone! I'm a senior and currently I'm rewriting my historical investigation. I'm trying to write about Ernst Reuter's (mayor of Berlin) role in the Berlin airlift. Our teacher is not very helpful and I don't know if my question is focused our even appropriate at all. This is my current question: In what ways did Ernst Reuter contribute to the success of the Berlin airlift? -> He was really important in convincing the allies to set up the airlift and to rally the West-Berlin citizens during the airlift. Some call him the 'voice of Berlin' I just thought of another question (probably needs a little rewording): How did Ernst Reuter prevent West-Berlin from fallin…
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Chamberlain
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(Hitler and Sudetenland) What was Chamberlain's basic motivation to pursue a policy of appeasement? And what role did he play?
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Hi, so I've been really struggling on getting my history IA topic down in terms of specificity while keeping it easily researchable, and I've been consider doing a kind of comparison of Lenin and Stalin, maybe their methods, policies, or ideologies. Is this too overdone, or not specific enough? I'd really appreciate some help as my first three sections have to be completed by the 28th. Thanks
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I'm doing my History IA (HL) about the 1989 Tiananmen massacre; I'm going to interview some people (since I live in China) and then write the IA based on that and some history books I've read about Tiananmen. I just wanted to know if this was a good idea? I'm doing an outline, and I've talked to my teacher and he approved. For my history EE, I'm thinking of writing about the May Fourth Movement in 1919. I still don't know what to focus on right now but I was thinking that maybe I write my EE about how the May Fourth Movement was a revolution and it was considered the first time in China's history that a public demonstration took place; and I wanted to focus on the causes …
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I have to "analyze the causes and effects of the 1905 revolution". Does anyone who does history HL know how I should go about this? Do they just expect me to analyze the significance of each event that caused/effected the revolution? Or..? I'm pretty confused, so help of any kind would be appreciated!! Thanks
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Hi everyone! Before sitting down to do some revision today I decided to have a look through the forums to look for any revision tips, and I came across quite a lot of people saying historiography is quite important for the good grades. Now, I've never heard of this before, but it does sound like a very good idea! So I was wondering if anyone could recommend any further reading/good examples of historians that I could have a look at for the topics: Origin & Development of Single Party States The Cold War 1945-1990 Peacemaking, Peacekeeping & International Relations 1918-1935 I don't really know where to start so some suggestions would be much appreciated!
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When doing Paper 2 and 3, is it a must to add historian's quotes and arguments? IF SO, then how would you go about incorporating historiography into the exam essay? I mean it's pretty hard remembering these quotes in the first place so would you have to make sure `that it is word for word or is paraphrasing okay?
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Does History have learning outcomes?
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Hi fellow Histry students, I have the subject on HL and already my teacher told us that we should read up for exams. I am anxious. I think I will a very difficult time with reading so many topics up and I feel that I will in a big trouble. I said to my counsellor all the predicted grades that I would think I will have and it still seems that I can pass IB. She says that too however I am a bit pessimist because I am the one who is going to be examined. Well., back to the question. Most of my subjects have syllabuses that have learning outcomes so it means that if I know those points then I will be alright. For me, it seems like that History doesn't which is devastating to …
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Hi everyone! I just have a quick question about the SL history route 2 syllabus. As part of this we did the topic on single party authoritarian states, and as examples we studied Nazi Germany and Castro's Cuba. My question is, will we need to do any more examples? My first history teacher seemed to imply that we didn't, but he left; since then I've realised that a lot of the exam questions name specific leaders which we haven't studied. The whole class is worried because we're second year students and are something like 4 months behind on class work because of the aforementioned teacher leaving. In short: Is it necessary to know these too, or can I just rely on there bein…
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Hey guys I need some suggestions about my History IA please. "On which ways did the first French Geodesic Mission to the Royal Audience of Quito in 1735 revolutionized the studies of geography, geodesy, and the metric concepts in the world at that time?" I gave my teacher the draft in December and he said it was ok, but last week he realised that the topic goes in Geography and I I didn't notice before .___. please help me changing my topic so it can fit in History!! Greetings from Ecuador. *Sorry it's IA, I got confused with Spanish.
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Hello! I'm doing my IA on Americas response to the Berlin Airlift and I had a question, What's a theme? How do I make them?
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