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I am currently writing the second draft of my History IA and it's mostly focused on the US' influence on the United Nations during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Do you think it is okay to write UN and US in Sections BCDE, as opposed to United States and United Nations? As you may realize I am struggling staying within the word limit.
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Hey, I'm just wondering if anyone's doing Indian History in their IBs for higher level from the beginning of the struggle for independence up till the partition of India and Pakistan and I was wondering if anyone has any good notes cause I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post this here but if anyone does have notes can I please have them? Thanks
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I have to decide whether I will take HL or SL history very soon. I am aware that while the HL exam includes paper 3, SL's doesn't, but other than that, I really don't know what the difference between them are. How much more extra things have to be memorised in HL? From your personal experiences, is HL a lot more difficult than SL? Thank you for helping!
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Trying to finish my IA before the beginning of IB2 I've decided to focus on the soviet invasion of afghanistan Struggling to narrow my topic any further Assess the reasons for the invasion and it's eventual failure? Is that simply to broad/should I just answer one half of that question I desperately need advice Thanks
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Hi, I've just gotten my recent mid-year exams back, and I got 6/20, 6/20 for both the essays. I felt that it wasn't marked in a way I was taught. Basically my teacher gives us the narration of the wars (WW1/WW2/Spanish Civil War) based on long term, short term, immediate causes of the way the war broke out and then the nature and effects of the war. He keeps emphasizing on "THEMES" to write during the exam. So I wrote themes like German aggression... Economic causes...etc, and giving narration and example evidences based on the points I gave. But I got a six. And the comments were, "Where are the themes?" "Please arrange your ideas based on themes and do not just narrat…
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So my history essay for WW2 is to 'Evaluate the reasons behind Japan's entry into WW2. Assess their validity.' The points I plan on focusing on are Japan's belief in racial superiority and nationalism and economic pressure (particularly oil embargos by America). If anyone can suggest and topics to focus on it would be very helpful, largely because I'm having trouble with resources. If anyone had covered this topic before some tips or guidance would be very appreciated. Thanks.
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HI to all!I nee your help! Which topic below is better to write an IA for standard lever history,please help me to pick one from the topics that list below!~I will be really appreciate that!Thank you! 1--Pearl Harbour Incident 2--Chinese culture revolution 3--Chinese war during the time of Qing dynasty 4--Ancient Chinese history--about the first dynasty of Ancient China--Qin dynasty i really need help of this. please help me about it!~ thanks a lot!~
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tell me what you do not understand about chinese history, and then i will try to help you about that topic.
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Hey! I have to write my HI and I chose to write it on Mao Zedong´s rise to power. Problem is, im kinda stuck on what title to pick and topic to write about but i thought of touching on propaganda and the suppression of the counterrevolutionaries. I have some titles but im not so sure which is why I need someone else´s opinion on this. Here goes: "To what extent did Mao´s suppression of the counterrevolutionaries justify his rise to power?" "What was the significance to Mao´s suppression of the counterrevolutionaries during his rise to power?" If you have anything better, please don´t be shy to share it
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Is anyone out there doing history route 1 ??? seriously?!?! having a crisis, in IB1, years finished now.. teachers kept swapping around for my history course and we havent done anything ... so next year im suppose to cram it all in... will i survive ? O_O plus in doing history HL ..
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Ok. Ive been working all summer and finally decided to start my summer assignments and realize that two of them are HL IAs. Not a big deal other than school starts in a couple of weeks and I haven't started either of them, my EE, or my CAS project. I am totally screwed and need some help. Plus the teacher's instructions are complete crap and make no sense. After reading some other posts I am in between on what to do. So what do these instructions mean and is this even a complete IA. Thanks for any help. 8@
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My school offers this as a SL one year course, part of Group 3. I'll be starting my second year and I'm contemplating dropping Economics in favour for Art History due to an early predicted grade of 3. Has anyone done this course, or know someone who's done it? I haven't found anything on the internet about it.
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Hey For my IA, I really wanted to research on the spanish civil war, and I picked the book 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell... but now I'm a bit stuck with what aspect of the war to explore... Has anyone read the book or learnt the spanish civil war and can give me some tips? The problem for me is that I haven't actually learnt about the war yet so it's all quite new to me... Thanks
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Getting a 7 in History seems so difficult. Does anyone have any tips on how to get a 7? I know many former IB students who got 7 on all their mocks, but finally ended up with 6.
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I'm having trouble deciding on a topic for my investigation. "To what extent were Camillo di Cavour's efforts in the unification of Italy successful?" This is one of the topics I've been considering. Do you believe this is a viable question or should I refine it? Or maybe someone has a better suggestion regarding a completely different topic? I'm not in my last year of high school--I only need to establish a question, write my plan of the investigation and summary of evidence for tomorrow. My teacher is marking this as part of our history exam for this semester. I have the option to scrap this topic at any point in the future to pursue a different topic but it would be n…
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Recently, for History, we had to write an essay evaluating the role of Churchill, Stalin and Truman in causing the "Cold War". There was no min. or max. word count or even an indication of any sort. Some wrote (and some havent done theirs yet, several days after due grr) 1500 words, and some wrote around 3500. One guy wrote 4800. In order to evaluate these leaders role in causing the conflict, taking note of the effect of their personalities, how many words should I write so as to include all relevant details but exclude any "flannel". I wrote 3900, or thereabouts and feel that whilst some was "flannel", most was relevant and on topic. Others who have written a similar es…
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Does anyone else feel that they're totally not ready for this...?
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Current Events 1 2
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Do you guys do a weekly current events thing every week in History, or is it just my class ? I really enjoy Current Events day though, it's great having a huge debate in class and then just laughing at lunch together, i love hearing different point of views, as well. Our biggest debates have revolved around the usual controversial topics like abortion, immigration, the war in iraq, racism, religion, global warming, as well as other topics. and the fun part is that we have some very strong liberals in my class and they totally class with the conservatives.
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Hello everyone. Next year I will be doing IB 1, world history. Now I originally thought I'd be doing something different in IB 1 world history, but it turns out that we are going to focus on the last 100 years of European history- basically 20th century European history. If anyone has taken this or has knowledge of this area of study, could you tell me what to expect? I mean, of course WWI and WWII will be a big part, but maybe some overall themes they try and teach you? Or maybe stuff about the cold war?
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Are quotes by historians part of the word count of an HI? Thanks! Hopefully I'm allowed to create a topic like this.
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Hi guys! I decided to do my History IA on the Berlin Wall and my title is " What were the social effects of the Berlin Wall on Berlin civilian" And one of my sources are CNN cold war documentary..and i dont know about my second source?! I AM REALLY STUCK. HOW SHOULD I APPROACH THIS? AND DO YOU THINK THIS iS A GOOD TOPIC? PLEASE HELP THANKS xxx
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Hey, I'm new to this forum, but I hope you guys can help me!!!! I need to find a IA topic for history higher for tomorrow, I just had so much other things on my mind until now, that I completely forgot that I still have to find a topic, the topic and part A need to be done till tomorrow...! I thought about doing something on the Habsburgs, maybe Pacific Warfare in WWII, anything that could relate to CIA/OSS operations..., please, I really need some help here!!!! Thanks, Philipp /EDIT nevermind..., found one
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Hello Everyone, First of all, thanks for this forums... they have helped a lot in these past two years of IB. I have finally gotten to the last step, in less than a month I will be sitting my IB exams and thus my revision is getting intense. At the moment, with History, I am feeling lost on how to revise effectively. I bought the Oxford Study Courses guides for Paper 1 and for Paper 2 (the one about single party states). And I have been reading through them highlighting important stuff (whoa its a lot). My problem so far is that I find it almost impossible to remember all the evidence that I would need to write a 5/6 essay. I have no problems structuring the essays, my pr…
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The question that this Historical Investigation will be examining is “How did Mao use his cult of personality to maintain his position in power?” as it would be appropriate to investigate a topic that was studied the year previously-but assess it with much greater detail. The aim of this essay is to examine what Mao used his cult of personality to maintain his role in power from 1966-1976. The question that this Historical Investigation will be examining is “How did Mao use his cult of personality to launch the Cultural Revolution?” the significance of this topic is that it’s an important aspect of history for China, and even today the shadow of Mao still hangs over Ch…
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Hi, I'm starting my rough draft for my H.I. and I decided that my topic would be Pancho Villa. At first I started of with the research question "To what extent did Pancho Villa influence the Mexican Revolution", but my teacher said that was too broad. Does anyone have any ideas on H.I. topics about Pancho Villa? Greatly appreciated!!!
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history help!
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hello, i need some help.. ive recently done my history external and i messed up a question n paper 2 i was of topic. on one question i did fine but on the other i didnt, it was completely off topic. i got for my ia a predicted of 4 and i did really well in p1 so is it possible that although i messed up in paper 2 i can still get good grades as in a 5 or above?
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Truman's justification for dropping atomic bombs on Japan
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Hi everyone, Is this a narrow enough topic: How did President Truman and the U.S. government come to the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan? Thanks!
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I have to do a practice HI for next year and I really want to do the following topic. However, I do not know if this is what they are looking for or not. The topic is: To what extent did the horrible trench conditions in the First World War during the years 1914 –1918 account for more deaths on all flanks than the war itself? Can you guys help me out please? Thanx in advance
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Hey every one. Right now In'm doing my Historical Investigation, its due on Monday. I have a topic but I need help because I don't know how to start my plan of investigation. This is my topic, How significant wat the role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the collapse of the Soviet Union? Please help me. Thank you
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Hello Everyone, I've been struggling with this bigtime! When we were first assigned the IA-I had originally chosen to focus on Kim-Il Sung and his Cult of personality and his effect on the people in the DPRK. But then my History teacher basically sidetracked us with another unit and once we came back to this-she told us to 'start over' and choose someone different (optionally) Deciding that trying to find out more about my first topic was more difficult than I thought and because I was 'struggling' with trying to write a proper plan and finding good resources, blah blah blah. I then decided to choose Pol Pot-but then I was told that "No, when the Khmer Rouge was …
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For the MAY 2009 exam, I'm revising 'Causes, Practices and Effects of War' (for paper 2 and 3). For the 'practices' bit, should I go into how propaganda was used as well as like, weaponry and tactics, during the war? Thanks!
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OK, last minute cramming for the exam tomorrow. One thing I've been wondering is how important/ how relevant the 1943 Cairo Conference was (where the US, UK and China agreed that Korea would be made independent and unified after Japan's defeat). Because I have one textbook basically saying Stalin must have been the biggest factor in causing the Korean war, as he declared war on Japan just before Japan surrendered, in order to gain influence in Korea. So the implication is he screwed over all the brilliant plans for peace made in that conference. BUT, then I read other sources about the causes of the Korean war, and they don't even mention it! On wikipedia, there's no real…
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Any one have any copies of past paper 3 exams?
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Hi I'm having difficulties to find proper information on the historiography or historical interpretations for WWI and WWII. Especially for WWII I have no information on what the different point of views are exactly. Obviously I want to get it right when I sit my exam. So does anyone know a website or something the like? I would be really grateful!
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I copied a bunch of past paper 3 exam questions on China and Japan. Enjoy =) May 1995 1. Examine the role of the Treaty Ports system in the development of China's relations with foreign powers between 1842 and 1870. 2. Why did the Tokugawa Bakufu abandon its traditional exclusion policy between 1853-1858 3. Assess Dutch Learning and its political significance 4. What caused the Sino Soviet split and why has it proved so difficult to heal? 5. What is your assessment of the political philosophy of Sun Yat Sen MAY 1996 1. What grounds are there for regarding 1873 as the major turning point in the development of Meiji Japan? 2. To what extent was the Treaty of Nanking (1842) …
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Hi, my research question for my internal assessment is this: "To what extent does John Scopes, in hs reflections on his own trial, accurately interpret the impact and importance of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?" So, basically, I am going to compare Scopes's view on the importance of his trial (a primary source) with a historian's interpretation of the impact of the trial (secondary source). My question is: is this even a good idea? I mean, Scope's reflection contains a lot of analysis and thus feel more like a secondary source than a primary one. But the problem is that, as a secondary source, his reflections are worthless because he's not a historian! Frankly, I think that …
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What does it mean to "successfully challenge assumptions"? Shoul the challenge of the assumptions of the question be the key thesis of the essay, or should it just be a mentioned aside? If it's just a mentioned aside, where should it be placed?
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So, I've started studying for the IB exams (yay!). And paper three, lemme say, holy CRAP it covers so much information! I don't have the attention span to learn so much stuff in such a short period of time! I was looking over some past papers and found that they almost always ask a question on the American Civil War. Are there any other topics that they seem to ask every year?
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hey, i'm quite new wit dis page... so im'a just let it out... can anyone referr me to some good sites or maybe a link within this page? Topic: Rise To Power People: Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini Topic: The Cold War /Pre-Post/ ...well thats basically it ;D (before you mention "google" - > im aware of google..) thanks ;O
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So, our teacher didn't really say what time period the first history paper covers. This is what I was told & am pretty sure its wrong looking at past papers: 1) USSR under Stalin 2) China (not doing Asia as regional option, so would never choose it regardless) 3) Cold War Is that it? Or, am I totally off base?
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Hi, as title says I would like someone to proof read my essay and give any advice they can. I did the essay my teacher told us to do it but im not sure how well/badly the IB would grade it. thanks in advance
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What were the goals and aims of the League of Nations and the United Nations? (Compare / Contrast) I know that the League was about disarming nations, while the UN is more geared towards stopping war / conflict. What were the successes of the LoN and the UN? (Compare / Contrast) - LoN: The mandate system What were their failures? (Compare / Contrast) -LoN: Manchuria, Abyssina
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Hey guyz i have one major problem, whenever i took a practice paper 3 i find myself writing so much for the first two questions and falling short for the last one becuse of the time, can someone tell how long an ideal answer is supposed to be for a question? any other tips are welcome! thanks
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Hey i want to do my IA on..well something to do with the mafia, my teacher suggested something about Al Capone smuggling alcoholo during prohibition...But any other suggestions? thanks.
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Hi, I'm doing my Hist IA and I began my essay on Idi Amin with my question, "How accurate is the film, “The Last King of Scotland” in portraying both Idi Amin and his dictatorial rule ?" First off, I have no idea whether this is a good question to begin with. And in a classic display of procrastination, I failed to REALLY research before I began to write the paper and I can't find many sources (just one) comparing the movie version of Idi Amin and Idi Amin himself. I also found a documentary on Idi Amin called "I knew Idi Amin" and I was going to try to compare their observations with the movie version of Idi Amin. I need help knowing if my question is a good one and if I…
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My History IA is due in next week, and I have no idea what to do for the evaluation of sources section! I don't get what we're expected to put there...do we just analyze using OPVL, the same as in a Paper 1? One of my classmates said we are supposed to explicitly state "the origin is" and "the purpose is" etc. Is that a useful strategy? --Thanks!
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HEY everyone, I'm a struggling history student at HL level needing help on how to go about his final internal assessment. My research question is: "To what extent was the foreign policy of the USA responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?" Any comments or help is much appreciated!
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I'm writing my practice IA on American isolationism during the interwar period, and in Part B, I'm planning to basically talk about the US government's actions (making isolationist-like laws, ignoring other agressive nations) and the attitude of the Americans during the interwar period. I'm not entirely sure how to approach part D, Analysis. I don't know how to analyze separately because I'm so used to summarizing and analyzing at the same time. Can anyone give an example of what you would write in Part D .. say for example, if I talk about the laws that were made in Part B? I don't get how to "analyze" those kinds of examples, other than just saying, these actions refle…
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I'm in year one. I'm just curious about something since our history teachers are confusing me. They basically don't tell us about anything that we're supposed to do. Are you only supposed to do the exams? I see you've been talking about an essay, but what is that? Please help
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You know how in Paper 2 & 3 "raises historiographical issues" is a requirement to get a 7? Is it like that in the Historical Inquiry too? Do you need a question based off historiography like "why do historians disagree on X"?
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