History

Assessment

Paper 1 – Source-based (30% SL / 20% HL) Rights and Protest Case study 1: Civil rights movement in the United States (1954–1965) Case study 2: Apartheid South Africa (1948–1964) Paper 2 – Essay based (45% SL / 25% HL) World History (20th Century) Topic 1: Authoritarian States Topic 2: The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries Paper 3 – Essay-based (35% HL) History of the Americas Topic 1: United States Civil War: Causes, course and effects (1840–1877) Topic 2: The Great Depression and the Americas (mid-1920s–1939) Topic 3: The Cold War and the Americas (1945–1981) Internal Assessment – 25% SL / 20% HL. Historical Investigation Topic of choice. Internally assessed and externally moderated