Leaving Certificate History course

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Unit 1: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Politics and Administration

Unit 2: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Society and economy

Unit 3: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Culture and religion

Unit 4: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Politics and Administration

Unit 5: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Society and economy

Unit 6: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Culture, religion and science

Unit 7: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe, 1920-1945. Politics and Administration

Unit 8: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe, 1920-1945. Society and economy

Unit 9: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe, 1920-1945. Culture, Religion and Science

Unit 10: The Documents-Based Study: The United States and the World, 1945-1989

Detailed Content

Unit 1: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Politics and Administration

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

Unit 2: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Society and economy

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

Unit 3: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993. Culture and religion

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

Unit 4: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Politics and Administration

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

Unit 5: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Society and economy

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

Unit 6: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949. Culture, religion and science

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

Unit 7: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe, 1920-1945. Politics and Administration

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

Unit 8: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe, 1920-1945. Society and economy

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