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Year 1: Prescribed Subject 3 , The move to Global War (Paper 1) . World History Topic 10 Authoritarian
States SL/HL (Paper 2)
Week
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The Historical Investigation
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3 Japan
Th H.I.
Causes of expansion
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Political instability in China
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Responses
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8 Germany and Italy
Causes of expansion
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10
Putting together a good RQ. And
finding sources
The HI sections
 The impact of Japanese
nationalism and
militarism on foreign
policy
 Japanese domestic
isssues: political and
economic issues, and
their impact on foreign
relations
 The H.I.
 Japanese invasion of
Manchuria and Northern
China (19319
 Sino-japanese War (19372941)
 The Tree
Power/Tripartite Pact;
the out break of
war;Pearl Harbour (1941)
 League of nations and the
Lytton report
 Political developments
with China- the Second
United Front
Events
International response,
including US initiatoves
snd increasing tensions
between tha US and
Japan
 Impact of fascism and
Nazism on the foreign
policies of Italy and
Germany
 Impact of domestic
economic issues on the
foreign polizie of Italy and
germany
 Changing diplomatic
alignments in Europe; the
end of collective security;
appeasement
German challenges to the post-
war settlements(1933-1938)
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Responses
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17 Tuning P.1
18 Authoritarian States (topic 10)
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Emergence: Mao; Hitler
Consolidation and maintenance
of power
Italian expansion: Abyssinia;
Albania; entry into the Second
World War
 German expansion
(1933_1939); Pact of
Steel, Nazi-Soviet Pact
and the out break of war
 International responses
to German aggression
(1933-1938)
 International responses
to Italian aggression
(1935-36)
 International responses
to German and Italian
aggression (1940)
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Aims and results of policies
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Conditions):economic
factors;social division;
impact of War; weakness
of political system
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Use of legal methods; use
of force; Charismatic
leadership; dissemination
of propaganda
Nature, extent and
treatment of op position
The impact of the success
and/or failure of foreign
policy on the
maintenance of power
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Aims and impact of
domestic economic,
political, cultural, and
social policies
Authoritarian control and
the extent to which it was
achieved
25 Tuning P.2
26 Tuning P2
27 The H.I.
28 The H.I.
29 The H.I.
30 4 weeks are left for formative and summative assessment to be determined according to the school
calendar
31 Assessment
32 Assessment
33 Assessment