1. PAPER #2: 2 ESSAYS/2 HRS. SL Students: 50% HL Students: 30%

2. SL STUDENTS PAPER #2: 50% PAPER #1: 25% IA: 25%!!!!!!

4. ESSAY #1 WARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
With reference to two examples, each chosen from a different region, assess the factors which helped and hindered successful guerrilla warfare.
Analyze the economic and social effects of two wars in the second half of the twentieth century.
To what extent were religious issues responsible for the wars between either India and Pakistan ( ) or Iran and Iraq ( ).
Analyze the reason for, and importance of, foreign intervention in one of the following: the Chinese Civil War ( ); the Spanish Civil War ( ); the Gulf War (1991).
In what ways did advances in technology affect the nature and outcome of warfare in the first half of the twentieth century?

5. ESSAY #2
THE COLD WAR
‘’ The conferences of 1945 at Yalta and Potsdam marked both the high and the breaking point of the wartime alliance of East and West.’’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?
In what ways, and with what success, did the US attempt to prevent the global spread of Soviet influence between 1945 and 1962?
3. Assess the significance of events in either Korea ( ) or the Congo ( ) on the development of the Cold War.
4. Examine the changing nature of US-Chinese relations between 1949 and 1972.
5. Evaluate the role of internal problems in the break-up of the Soviet Union.

6. ALGERIAS REVOLT AGAINST FRENCH COLONIZATION
EUROPE
WWI
WWII
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
AFRICA
ALGERIAS REVOLT AGAINST FRENCH COLONIZATION
NIGERIAS REVOLT AGAINST ENGLISH COLONIZATION
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINIAN WAR AGAINST ENGLAND OVER THE LIL’ FALKLAND ISLANDS
THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION

7. IRAN/IRAQ WARS OF THE 80’S DESERT STORM AND SADDAM HUSSEIN OF 1991
ASIA
INDIA VS. PAKISTAN (1947, 1965, 1971)
THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR
AFGHANISTAN
KOREA
VIETNAM
THE MIDDLE EAST
IRAN/IRAQ WARS OF THE 80’S
DESERT STORM AND SADDAM HUSSEIN OF 1991

8. THERE ARE 4 CATEGORIES OF WARS ON THE TEST A Total War (WWI AND WWII)
A Limited War (IRAN-IRAQ, DESERT STORM)
A Civil War (KOREA, AFGHANISTAN, VIETNAM)
Guerrilla Wars (VIETNAM, AFGHANISTAN)

9. A Guerrilla War
- AFGHANISTAN
- VIETNAM

10. A Civil War :
- KOREA
- VIETNAM

11. A Limited War
- IRAN VS. IRAQ
DESERT STORM AND
SADDAM HUSSEIN

12. A Total War
- WORLD WAR 1

13. Causes of the war?
Long Term Causes
Short Term Causes
Immediate Causes 
Political Causes

14. Causes of the war?
Religious Causes
Ideological Causes
Economic Causes

15. Characteristics of the war?
Different Weapons and tactics
Land/Sea/Air Power
New Technology; radar, sonar, code breaking
Changes in the Home front: economic and social impact

16. Characteristics of the war?
Changes in the role and status of women
Resistance and Revolutionary movements

17. What was the result of the war?
Peace settlements and wars ending without treaties
Attempts at collective security pre- and post WWII
Political repercussions and territorial changes
Post-war economic problems