Leaving Certificate History course
Course Contents
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Higher Level
Detailed Content
- Historic Background
- From Brookeborough 1888 1973 to O'Neill
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Emergence of the Provisional IRA
- Republican and Loyalist Terrorism
- Case study: Sunningdale and Power Sharing
- Key Personality: Terence O'Neill
- Key Personality: Ian Paisley
- Key Personality: Margeret Thatcher
- Key Personality: Brian Faulkner
- Key Personality: John Hume
- Key Personality: James Molyneaux
- Key Personality: Gerry Adams
- Key Personality: Bernadette Devlin
- Impact of Welfare State: Education, Health, Housing
- Social and Economic Developments Prior to 1969
- Impact of the "Troubles": The economy, society education, health, housing
- Case study: Coleraine University Controversy
- Key Personality: Terence O'Neill
- Key Personality: Brian Faulkner
- Key Personality: John Hume
- Religious Affiliation and Cultural Identity
- Cultural Responses to the "troubles"
- Ecumenism
- Case study: Apprentice Boys of Derry
- Key personality: Seamus Heaney
- Key personality: Patricia McCluskey, Conn McCluskey
- The Second Reich and the Changing Balance of Power
- Bismarck’s Foreign Policy 1871-1890
- The Structures of European Diplomacy: Anglo and Franco-German Tensions, Wilhelm II and ‘Weltpolitik’
- The New Imperialism and Colonial Rivalries
- The Rise of Serbia
- The Second International
- The Outbreak of War in 1914
- The Conduct of War
- War and Revolution
- The Peace Settlement
- Key Personality: Otto von Bismarck
- Key Personality: Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Key Personality: Douglas Haig
- Key Personality: Woodrow Wilson
- Case Study: The Naval Policy of Wilhelm II
- Industrialisation in Germany and Its Impact on Society 1871-1914
- 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 National 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
- Origins and Growth of the Fascist Regimes in Europe
- The Nazi State in Peace and War
- Communism in Russia: the Regimes of Lenin and Stalin the Stalinist State in Peace and War
- Case Study: Stalin’s show trials
- France: the Third Republic, 1920-1940, and the Vichy state
- Wartime alliances, 1939-1945
- Key Personality: Adolf Hitler
- Key Personality: Benito Mussolini
- Key Personality: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Key Personality: Joseph Stalin
- Economic and Social Problems of the Inter-War Years, with Particular Reference to Britain and Germany
- Case study: the Jarrow March, October 1936
- The Soviet Alternative / the Russian Economy under Stalin
- Society During World War 2
- Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
- Key Personality: John Maynard Keynes
- Key Personality: Winston Churchill
- The Impact of World War II
- Case Study: Belfast During World War II
- Nazi Propaganda – State Control and the Use of Mass Media
- Case Study: The Nuremberg Rallies
- Church-State Relations under Mussolini and Hitler
- Anglo-American Popular Culture in Peace and War
- The Technology of Warfare
- Key Personality: Joseph Goebbels
- Key Personality: Leni Riefenstahl
- Key Personality: Bing Crosby
- Key Personality: Charlie Chaplin
- The first programme for economic expansion, 1958-1983
- Impact of the EEC on fisheries
- The impact of RTE, 1962-1972

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