Leaving Certificate History course
Course Contents
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Higher Level
Detailed Content
- The Second Reich and the changing balance of power
- Anglo- and Franco-German tensions
- Bismarck’s foreign policy
- The structures of European diplomacy
- The New Imperialism and colonial rivalries
- Wilhelm II and Weltpolitic
- Serbia as a fulcrum of Great Power rivalry
- The Second International
- The outbreak of war in 1914
- The conduct of war
- War and revolution
- The Peace Settlement
- Case Study: The naval policy of Wilhelm II
- Economic growth and social tensions
- Industrialisation in Germany and its impact on society
- Industrialisation and economic crisis in Tsarist Russia
- The impact of war on society and economy
- Case Study: Women in the Workforce During World War I
- Key Personalities: The Krupp Family
- Key Personality: Rosa Luxemburg
- Expression of natural identity through literature and the arts: The literature of World War I
- Key Personality: Wilfred Owen
- Church/State tensions in Germany and Italy
- Key Personality: Pope Leo XIII
- Anti-Semitism in France and Russia
- Key developments in science, technology and medicine
- Key Personality: Marie Curie
- Case Study: The Invention and Early History of the Motor Car
- Key Personality: Karl Benz
Topic 3: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Politics and administration
- The Home Rule Bill, 1912-1914
- The Impact of World War I
- The 1916 Rising
- The rise of the second Sinn Féin party
- The 1918 election
- The War of Independence
- Partition
- Treaty and Civil War
- State building and the consolidation of democracy
- From Free State to Republic
- Northern Ireland – the Unionist Party in power
- The Impact of World War II, North and South
- Case Study: The Treaty negotiations, October-December, 1921
- Impact of partition on economy and society
- Impact of world economic crisis
- From free trade to protectionism
- Impact of World War II.
- Case Study: Belfast during World War II
Topic 3: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Culture, religion and science
- The Irish language after 1922
- Religion and education
- Promotion of cultural identity
- Key personality: Evie Hone
- Case study: the eucharistic congress of 1932
- From Brookeborough 1888 1973 to O'Neill
- Terence O'Neill
- The civil rights movement
- Emergence of the provisional ira
- Republican and loyalist terrorism
- Case study: sunningdale and power sharing
- Case study (continued): direct rule
- Key personality: Terence O'neill (1914-90)
- Key personality: Ian Paisley (1926 - )
- Key personality: Margaret Thatcher (1925 )
- Key personality: Brian Faulkner (1921-77)
- Key personality: John Hume (1937 )
- Key personality: James Molyneaux (1920 )
- Key personality: Gerry Adams (1948 - )
- Key personality: Bernadette Devlin (1947 )
- Impact of welfare state: education, health, housing.
- Social and economic developments prior to 1969
- Impact of the "troubles": (a) the economy; (b) society education, health, housing.
- Case study: Coleraine University controversy
- Key personality: Terence O'Neill (1914-90)
- Key personality: Brian Faulkner (1921-77)
- Key personality: John Hume (1937 )
- Religious affiliation and cultural identity
- Cultural responses to the "troubles"
- Ecumenism
- Case study: apprentice boys of Derry
- Key personality: Seamus Heaney (1939-)
- Key personality: Patricia Mccluskey, Conn Mccluskey
- The Jarrow March, October 1936.
- Stalin’s show trials
- The Nuremberg Rallies
Delivery Method:
1. Correspondence
Private Tutor: Yes
Duration: 6 to 24 Months
Price: US$515 US$385
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