History Department: IB History Curriculum Map
IB History Curriculum Map
Prescribed Subject: The Move To Global War Japanese expansion in East Asia (1931–1941); German and Italian expansion (1933–1940)
World History Topic 1:
10: Authoritarian states (20th century): Hitler and Mao
World History Topic 2:
11: Causes and effects of 20th-century wars: FWW, SWW, Spanish CW, Chinese CW &2nd Italo-Abyssinian
War
Higher Level Regional Option 1:
9: Early modernization and imperial decline in East Asia (1860–1912)
Higher Level Regional Option 2:
12: China and Korea (1910–1950)
Higher Level Regional Option 3:
14: The People’s Republic of China (1949-2005)
IB Requirements:
P1 Prescribed Subject
P2 World History Units
P3 HL Regional Option Units
IA: Historical Investigation
SL: 150 HL 240
SL: 40 HL: 40
SL: 90 HL: 90
HL: 90
SL: 20 HL: 20
Allocations:
160 hours
86 hours
20 hours
Year 12 = 36 weeks
Total hours: 164 hours
SL: 110; HL: 51
The Move to Global War: 40
hours
Early Modernization and
Imperial Decline in East Asia
1860-1912: 30 hours
Choice of topic to be
taken from the SL or HL
course
Year 13 = 24 weeks
Total hours: 105
SL Hours: 70; HL Hours: 35
SL Total Hours: 180 (+30)
HL Total Hours: 86 (-4)
Total Hours: 271
Total = 60 weeks
Total = 14 weeks
Authoritarian States: 45
hours
Mao
Hitler
Chiang Kai Shek/Mussolini
Causes and Effects of 20thC
Wars: 45 hours
FWW
SWW
SS-JW
CCW
SCW
SI-AW
Total = 30 weeks (15 weeks
per module)
China and Korea (19101950): 30 hours
The People’s Republic of
China 1949-2005): 30 hours
Total = 60 weeks
Total = 8 weeks
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HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
IB YEAR 1: 36 weeks
TERM 1: 16 weeks
Term 1a: 6 weeks
Paper 1
Paper 2
th
Paper 3
UNIT
The Move to Global War: German and Italian
expansion (1933–1940)
20 Century Conflicts: The effects of the
FWW
P3 Early Modernization and Imperial Decline in
East Asia 1860-1912
CONTENT
Causes of expansion
 Impact of fascism and Nazism on the foreign
policies of Italy and Germany
Effects
The successes and failures of peacemaking
 Territorial changes: Paris Peace
Conference
 Political repercussions;
 Economic, social and demographic impact;
 changes in the role and status of women
 Post war conflicts and the World order
1920-1929
 League of Nations 1920’s
 Collective Security 1930’s
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3 weeks: 10 lessons
Half Term
6 weeks: 9 lessons
The Move to Global
War: Japanese
expansion in East Asia
(1931–1941)
The Causes of the Second World Asia
P3 Early Modernization and Imperial Decline in
East Asia 1860-1912
Causes of expansion
 nationalism
militarism, foreign
policy
 P2 approach/review and essay
SWW Asia
Causes
Economic, ideological, political, territorial and
other causes, Short- and long-term causes

Estimated time
2 weeks: 6 lessons
Term 1b: 10 weeks
The Move to Global
UNIT
War: German and
Italian
expansion (1933–1940)
CONTENT
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Impact of domestic
economic issues on
the foreign policies of
Italy and Germany
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Tongzhi (T’ung-chih) Restoration and SelfStrengthening Movement (1861‑94)
Impact of defeat in the Sino–Japanese War
(1894‑5); Guangxu (Kuang-hsu) and the Hundred
Days Reform (1898)
Boxer Rebellion (1900‑01); the late Qing (Ch’ing)
reforms
Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) and the 1911 “Double Ten”
Nationalist Revolution
Meiji Restoration (1868) in Japan; the 1889
Constitution
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Estimated
Time
Changing diplomatic
alignments in Europe;
the end of collective
security;
appeasement
Events
 German challenges to
the post-war
settlements (1933–
1938)
Italian expansion:
Abyssinia (1935–
1936); Albania; entry
into the Second
World War
 German expansion
(1938–1939); Pact of
Steel, Nazi–Soviet
Pact and the outbreak
of war
Responses
 International
response to German
aggression (1933–
1938)
 International
response to Italian
aggression (1935–
1936)
 International
response to German
and Italian aggression
(1940)

Japanese domestic
issues
 Instability in China
Events
 Manchuria and
northern
China (1931)
 Sino-Japanese War
(1937–1941)
 The Three
Power/Tripartite
Pact; the outbreak of
war; Pearl
Harbor (1941)
Responses
 League of Nations
 China—the Second
United Front
 International
response,
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4 weeks: 12 lessons
6 weeks: 18 lessons
1 week: 3 lessons
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The impact of the First World War and the
post-war conferences
Taisho democracy: the growth of liberal
values and the two-party system
Reasons for, and impact of, the rise of
militarism and extreme nationalism:
increasing influence of the army in
politics; political coups and assassinations
Invasions of Manchuria (1931) and China
(1937), and impact on relations with the
West; Three Party/ Tripartite Pact (1940);
US embargo (1940)
Japan and the Pacific War (1941–1945):
decision to attack Pearl Harbor;
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Social, cultural and economic developments in Meiji
Japan
Commitment to military power; victory in the Sino–
Japanese War (1894‑5) and in the Russo–Japanese
War (1904‑5)
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10 weeks: 15 lessons
Christmas holiday
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Assessment
Knowledge Test, Research Essay, Controlled Assessment P1/P2/P3, Blog Entries
TERM 2: 11 weeks
Term 2a: 2 weeks
Paper 1
Paper 2
th
Paper 3
UNIT
20 Century conflicts An introduction to conflict
Early Modernization and Imperial Decline in East Asia
1860-1912
CONTENT
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Estimated Time
Definitions of War: What is war?
Types of conflicts: Total, Interstate, Guerrilla, Civil
Causes of conflicts: Themes
Developments of conflicts: Technology, government,
society, ‘ways of war’
Theories/Analysis of conflicts: Thucydides, von
Clausewitz, Mao, TE Lawrence, Historians, Max Boot,
Max Hastings
2 weeks: 6 lessons
Korean isolation: opening (1876); rebellions; annexation
(1910)

2 weeks: 3 lessons
Holiday
Term 2b: 8 weeks
UNIT
Interstate: The causes and practices of the FWW
China and Korea (1910-1950)
(Europe) and SWW (Asia)
CONTENT
FWW Europe
Causes
 Causes of the First World War: short- and long-term
causes; relative importance of causes; the Alliance
system; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; German
foreign policy; Austria-Hungary, Russia and Balkan
nationalism; the arms race and diplomatic crises; the
July Crisis of 1914
Practices
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Rise of national identity in China: Yuan Shikai; Sun Yixian;
21 Demands (1915); new culture movement; Treaty of
Versailles (1919); May Fourth movement (1919); effects of
warlordism
Nationalist rule of China: Guomindang leadership and
ideology; Jiang Jieshi; successes and failures of domestic
policy during the Nanjing decade (1927–1937)
Rise of communism in China: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
ideology; First United Front; Shanghai massacre (1927);
Yan’an; Jiangxi Soviet; Long March; Mao Zedong
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Types of war: civil wars; wars between states; guerrilla
wars; Technological developments; theatres of war—
air, land and sea; The extent of the mobilization of
human and economic resources; The influence and/or
involvement of foreign powers
Effects
 Impact of the First World War on civilian populations
of two countries from the region between 1914 and
1918
 Factors leading to the defeat of Germany and the
other Central Powers, and to the victory of the
Entente Powers: strategic errors; economic factors;
entry and role of the US; domestic instability in the
Central Powers

Impact of Japanese invasion of China; Manchuria (1931);
Second United Front; Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945);
Chinese Civil War (1946–1949); nature of conflict; reasons for
communist victory
SWW Asia
Practices
Types of war: wars between states; guerrilla wars
Technological developments; theatres of war—air, land
and sea; The extent of the mobilization of human and
economic resources;
 initial successes; SE Asia
 Burma, Island Hopping and the Pacific War
 reasons for defeat
Effects
The successes and failures of peacemaking; Territorial
changes; Political repercussions; Economic, social and
demographic impact; changes in the role and status of
women in Japan, US and Australia
 The Japanese Empire
 Treaty of San Francisco
 The US occupation of Japan(1945–1952): social,
political and cultural changes
 Early Cold War in Asia 1945-1950
Estimated Time
8 weeks: 24 lessons
5 weeks 6 lessons
Spring Break
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Assessment
Knowledge Test, Research Essay, Controlled Assessment P1/P2/P3, Blog Entries
TERM 3: 9 weeks
Term 3
Paper 1
UNIT
CONTENT
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Paper 2
Paper 3
Cause Course and Effects of the Spanish Civil War
Cause Course and Effects of the Chinese Civil War
China and Korea (1910-1950)
Causes
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Practices
Effects
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Estimated time
5 weeks 17 lessons
8 weeks 17 lessons
Impact of Japanese rule of Korea: social, political and
economic effects of annexation (1910); impact of the SinoJapanese War on Korea: Japanese use of forced labour,
conscription and comfort women; division of Korea at
38th parallel (1945); Syngman Rhee; Kim Il-Sung
Taiwan and Republic of China (ROC): nature of Jiang Jieshi’s
rule: martial law (1949); White Terror (1950); beginnings of
Taiwanese independence movement
10 weeks 14 lessons
Summer Holiday
Assessment
Knowledge Test, Research Essay, Controlled Assessment P1/P2/P3, Blog Entries
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IB YEAR 2: 24 Weeks
TERM 1: 16 weeks
Term 1a
Paper 1
UNIT
CONTENT

Estimated Time weeks
Paper 2
Paper 3
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weeks
weeks
weeks
weeks
weeks
Half Term
Term 1b
UNIT
CONTENT
Estimated Time weeks
weeks
Christmas Holiday
Assessment
Knowledge Test, Research Essay, Controlled Assessment P1/P2/P3, Blog Entries, IA
TERM 2: 11 weeks ( -2 weeks for mock examinations)
Term 2a
Paper 1
UNIT
CONTENT
Estimated Time
 Mock Exam
 No lessons
2 weeks
Paper 2
Paper 3
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 Mock Exam
 No lessons
2 weeks
Holiday
Term 2b
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UNIT
CONTENT
Estimated Time
Spring Break
Revision for examinations
Revision, Final Examinations
Assessment
TERM 3: 1 week
Term 3
Paper 1
UNIT
CONTENT
Estimated time

1 week
Paper 2
Paper 3
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1 week
1 week
Exam Leave
Assessment
Revision, Final Examinations
Notes/Points
to consider
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