Course: 2nd Grading Period

History of the Americas (HL): Higher level candidates are required to study one prescribed subject, two to three 20th century world history topics, and one regional option and undertake an historical investigation. The integrated syllabus outline is as follows …

Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, peacekeeping – international relations 1918-1936 (completed during senior year)

20th Century World History Topics: (completed during senior year)
  • No. 1: Causes, practices and effects of war
  • No. 3: Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states

Regional Option: the Americas

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Essays: Regional and Document-Based Question (DBQ)

Week

1 Urbanization and Political Reform (1865 – 1900) 23, 25
  • “The Spread of Segregation” (Chapter 23, Spirit)
  • “The New Immigration” (Chapter 25, Spirit)
  • “The Changing Role of Women” (Chapter 25, Spirit)
2-3 Progressive Era (1901 – 1916) 29-30
  • “The Heyday of Muckraking” (Chapter 29, Spirit)
  • “The Plight of Labor” (Chapter 29, Spirit)
  • “The Crusade for Women’s Suffrage” (Chapter 29, Spirit)
  • “The Election of 1912” (Chapter 30, Spirit)
  • Unit IV Exam (Paper 3)
4 Settlement of the West (1841 – 1896) & United States Expansion (1890 – 1909) 17, 26-28
  • “Provoking War with Mexico” (Chapter 17, Spirit)
  • “The Plight of the Indian” (Chapter 26, Spirit)
  • “Independence and the Spanish-Cuban-American War” (Chapter 17, LA)
  • “Prelude to Empire, 1810 – 1897” (Chapter 20, LA)
  • “Yellow Journalism in Flower” (Chapter 27, Spirit)
  • “The Declaration of War” (Chapter 27, Spirit)
  • “The Panama Revolution” (Chapter 28, Spirit)
  • “The Monroe Doctrine in the Caribbean” (Chapter 28, Spirit)
5-6 World War I (1914 – 1918) 31
  • “Causes of World War I” (Chapter 3, TCW)
  • “Battlefronts, 1914 – 1918” (Chapter 3, TCW)
  • “Home Fronts” (Chapter 3, TCW)
  • “Peacemaking, 1919 and After” (Chapter 3, TCW)
  • “The Propaganda Front” (Chapter 31, Spirit)
  • “The Face of War” (Chapter 31, Spirit)
6 Society, Politics, and the Economy after the Great War (1919 – 1929) 32
  • “The Deceptive ‘Normalcy’ of the 1920s” (Chapter 5, TCW)
  • “The Revival of Antiforeignism” (Chapter 32, Spirit)
  • Unit V Exam (Paper 3)
7-8 The Great Depression (1920 – 1939) 33-34
  • “From Wall Street Crash to World Depression” (Chapter 5, TCW)
  • “Origins of the Crisis” (Chapter 5, TCW)
  • “The Depression Descends” (Chapter 33, Spirit)
  • “The Face of the Great Depression” (Chapter 34, Spirit)
  • “The Supreme Court Fight and After” (Chapter 34, Spirit)
9 I Have Absolutely No Ideas! Why Do We Have an Extra Week?

10 IB Simulation II
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