History

Course summary

IB History is an exploratory subject that encourages you to develop a sense of inquiry. It is also a course that aims to foster a deeper understanding of the past whilst allowing you to engage with multiple perspectives before expressing your own informed opinions. This will include an exploration of the nature of humans and the world today within a political, economic, social and cultural framework. At Standard Level, the course comprises Papers 1 and 2. Paper 1 is ‘The Move to Global War’ – Japanese, German and Italian expansion in the 1930s. Paper 2 involves two main topics – ‘Twentieth Century Authoritarian States’ and ‘The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries’.