SL	HL
Paper 1 (30%) Paper 2 (45%) IA (25%)	Paper 1 (20%) Paper 2 (25%) Paper 3 (35%) 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

Useful Sites & Files

Practice Paper 1 - ToV

Practice Paper 1 - Ruhr

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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

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

HK Review

Rise of Single Party States (Topic 3)
SPS Themes

• Rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany
• Rise of Mao and Communist China

Nationalist & Independence Movements (Topic 4)
Independence Themes

• Vietnam: Decolonization & Independence
• Poland: Independence from Soviet Rule

Question Type

HK Sources

Sample Question & Responses

• Topic 3
• Topic 4
• Hitler & Mao

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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

Structure

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)

Sample Question & Response