IB History

This document provides a full summary of the Second World War IB History book (Cambridge). It includes all relevant information, dates and historians that will help you get a 7 in IB History SL. It also contains the concepts that are required in order to answer an official Paper 2 exam.

This is a detailed document on the SL topic of IB History: THE COLD WAR: SUPERPOWER TENSIONS & RIVALRIES written by an HL history student who received a 7 as final grade. It covers: * Growth & tensions: Origins of the Cold War, 1943-55 * Crises of the Cold War, 1955-70 * Reconciliation & renewed conflict, 1970s * The end of the Cold War, 1980-91 * Leaders * Impact on nations: US & USSR (includes perspectives from historians & significance of events)

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Notes follow the syllabus to ensure all aspects of syllabus are covered and includes past paper questions relevant to different aspect of the syllabus

"Reds" - Bolsheviks (Communists) "Greens" - peasants who rose up against both armies in or near areas of their control in 1919-20 -largely due to conscription & grain requisitioning "Whites" - Led by former Tsarist Russian generals and the Navy. Included some Left SRs and Mensheviks. (Whites were a right wing opposition) The Cheka - Formed under Bolshevik Rule, the CHEKA were the governments secret police, and helped to cause terror and hassle the peasants during the Civil War. C...

Hitler () - Fascist leader of Germany. () Peron () - Fascist leaders of Argentina () Stalin () - Communist leader of the Soviet Union. () Castro (1965- ) - Communist leader of Cuba (1965- ) Hitlers Policies - Targeted groups: Communists, Brown Shirts, Jews Policies: Rearmament and Expansion of Germany Stalin Policies - Domestic: Gender equality, Gender Equality Economy: Five Year plan (Controlling war productions), planned economies, Land reform (collectivization)

Nuclear Parity - A balance of nuclear capabilities. Nuclear Proliferation - the spread of nuclear weapons to new nations New Look - The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities. Chinese Communist Party - The ruling party in China organized and led by Mao Zedong Sygman Rhee - elected as the president in South Korea just before the Korean War started

Where did the Brown vs. Board case originate from? - Answer- Topeka, Kansas Why did the Brown vs Board of Education case occur? - Answer- In Topeka, Kansas 1954, Linda Brown's father beleived his daughter should not have to walk 21 blocks over dangerous railerways past a Whites Only school to get the her Blacks only school that was disadvantaged and lacked sufficient resources. Mr Brown felt the schools should be integrated as Black schools weren't ad well funded as white schools. Linda...

This is a detailed document on the IB History HL topic: THE COLD WAR & THE AMERICAS; which was written by a History HL student who received a 7 as final grade. It covers: *US foreign policy pre-1945 * President Truman & the Cold War * Korean War 1950-53 * President Eisenhower & the 'New Look' * US involvement in the Vietnam War * From Kennedy to Carter: US foreign policy in Latin America, 1961-81 * The Cold War & Canada

This is a detailed document on the IB History HL topic: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS; written by a HL history student who received a 7 as final grade. It covers: * Indigenous people & civil rights in the Americas * Feminist movement in the Americas (USA& Canada) * Hispanic American movement in the US * Youth culture & protests in the 1960s & 1970s