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Prescribed Subjects (Paper 1 Source Work Paper)
- The move to global war
- Rights and protest
Paper 2 World History Topics (Paper 2 Standard Level Essays)
- 5. Early Modern states (1450–1789)
- 8. Independence movements (1800–2000)
  - Europeans empires in the 19th century
- 9. Evolution and development of democratic states (1848–2000)
- 10. Authoritarian states (20th century)
  - Overview Depth Study: Rise of 20^th Century Dictators
  - Overview Depth Study: Rule of 20^th Century Dictators
  - Europe
  - Americas
  - Asia
    - Mao: Rise
    - Mao: Rule
  - Africa and the Middle East
    - Khomeini: Rise
    - Saddam: Rise and Rule
- 11. Causes and effects of 20th-century wars
  - Introductory Unit: Origins of Wars Compared
  - Civil Wars
    - Russian Civil War
    - Spanish Civil War
    - Palestinian Civil War
    - Chinese Civil War
    - Korean War
    - Cuban Revolution
    - Vietnam War
  - Interstate Wars
  - Guerilla Wars
- 12. The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries (20th century)
  - Origins of the Cold War to 1949
  - Korean War
  - Suez Crisis
  - Cuban Missile Crisis
  - Vietnam War
  - US Presidents and the Cold War
    - Truman
    - Eisenhower
    - Kennedy
    - Johnson
    - Nixon
  - Decline and Collapse of Communism
Depth Studies (Paper 3 Higher Level Essays)
- 1. History of Africa and the Middle East
  - 4: The Ottomans (1281–1566)
    - The Ottoman Empire 1453-1600
  - 8. European imperialism and the partition of Africa (1850–1900)
  - 13. War and change in the Middle East and North Africa 1914–1945
  - 17. Post-war developments in the Middle East (1945–2000)
- 2. History of the Americas
  - 14: Political developments in Latin America (1945–1980)
  - 15: Political developments in the United States (1945–1980)
  - 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945–1981)
  - 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945
- 4. History of Europe
  - 2. Muslims and Jews in medieval Europe (1095–1492)
  - 6. The Reformation
  - 8: The French Revolution and Napoleon I (1774–1815)
  - 10: Society, politics and economy in Britain and Ireland (1815–1914)
    - Britain 1906-1918
  - 11: Italy (1815–1871) and Germany (1815–1890)
    - Bismarck
    - Wilhelm II
  - 12: Imperial Russia, revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union (1855–1924)
  - 13. Europe and the First World War (1871–1918)
    - Bismarck
    - Wilhelm II
    - WW1 - Causes
    - WW1 - Events
    - Why did Germany lose WW1?
  - 14. European states in the inter-war years (1918–1939)
  - 15: Versailles to Berlin: Diplomacy in Europe (1919–1945)
  - 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924–2000)
  - 17. Post-war western and northern Europe (1945–2000)
  - 18: Post-war central and eastern Europe (1945–2000)
    - East Germany: Life in the DDR
    - Decline/Collapse of Communism

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