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 * ====**SL**==== || ====**HL**==== ||
 * ====Paper 1 (30%)====

IA (25%)
|| ====Paper 1 (20%)====

IA (20%)
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=Paper 1 (4 Questions)= 60 minutes + 5 minutes reading time (no pen) 4 Qs total, answer all 25 marks total

__HK Review (mainly for Q4)__

 * Peacemaking & Peacekeeping HK 1918-1936
 * Vocabulary Words
 * Political Cartoons

__Breakdown of Each Question __

 * Question 1a (3 marks, 5 min) - Reading Comprehension
 * Question 1b (2 marks, 5 min) - Messages in Political Cartoon
 * Question 2 (6 marks, 15 min) - Compare & Contrast
 * Question 3 (6 marks, 15 min) - OPVL
 * Question 4 (8 marks, 20 min) - Mini-Essay

**Practice Paper 1 - Ruhr**
=Paper 2 (2 Essays)= 90 minutes total (45 minutes per essay) 6 Qs per topic, answer 1 Q per topic 20 marks per essay, 40 marks total

Structuralist || Intentionalist Structuralist Orthodox (Sartre, Edgar Snow) Revisionist (Lee Feigon, Jung Chang) || Metropolitan Liberation Determinist Cold War || Metropolitan Liberation Determinist ||
 * **Topic** || **Hitler** || **Mao** || **Vietnam** || **Eastern/Central Europe** ||
 * Historiography || Intentionalist

__**HK Review **__
SPS Themes
 * Rise of Single Party States (Topic 3)**
 * Rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany
 * Rise of Mao and Communist China

Independence Themes
 * Nationalist & Independence Movements (Topic 4)**
 * Vietnam: Decolonization & Independence
 * Poland: Independence from Soviet Rule

__Sample Question & Responses__

 * Topic 3
 * Topic 4
 * Hitler & Mao

=Paper 3 (3 Essays)= 150 minutes total (50 minutes per essay) 2 Qs per topic, answer 1 Q per topic 20 marks per essay, 60 marks total

**Question Types & Essay Format**

 * To what extent
 * 2-part questions
 * Evaluate
 * Analyze

__HK Review __

 * The Republic of China 1912-49 and Rise of Communism (#11-12)
 * China: The Regional Superpower from mid 20th Century to 2000 (#19-20)
 * Global Impact of the Region in the 2nd Half of the 20th Century (#21-22)