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High School Cambridge AICE International History I AS Level

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

In this course, you will explore the people, events, and ideas that shaped the course of International History from 1870-1945. Lesson content will cover political history, cultural history, economic history, and racial history through the key concepts of cause and consequence, change and continuity, interpretations, significance, and similarity and differences. You will achieve a level of mastery in International History to help on the exam and be prepared to enter higher education.

Module One: Introduction to AICE International History

-The rise of industrialized nations

-Motives for imperialism

-Exam preparation for Paper 1


Module Two: Age of Imperialism

-Empire building

-Colonization of Africa

-Anti-imperialism

-Imperialism in China

-Exam preparation for Paper 2


Module Three: Rise of World Powers and the First World War

-Empire building

-Colonization of Africa

-Anti-imperialism

-Imperialism in China

-Exam preparation for Paper 2


Module Four: A Tenuous Peace

-Post World War I

-Tensions between nations post-war

-Post-war relations between major powers

Module Five: Shifting the Balance

-The 1920s

-The League of Nations aims

-The League of Nations successes and challenges

-Failures of the League of Nations


Module Six: Depression and Dictators

-The Great Depression

-The Spanish Civil War

-Rise of dictatorships (Hitler)

-Disarmament


Module Seven: World on the Brink

-Appeasement

-Germany's expansion

-Invasion of Poland


Module Eight: China and Japan

-Warlord era

-Rise of the Kuomintang

-Mao Zedong's leadership

-Japan's rise and government


Module Nine: AICE International History Exam Review

-Review of Emergence of World Powers

-Review of League of Nations and International Relations of the 1920s

-Review of League of Nations and International Relations of the 1930s

-Review of China and Japan

-Review of writing skills