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 (1871-1919)
- 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 (1867 - 1934)
- Case Study: The Invention and Early History of the Motor Car
- Key Personality: Karl Benz (1844 - 1929)
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 (1894 - 1955)
- Case study: The eucharistic congress of 1932
- 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 and 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 (1889 - 1945)
- Key personality: Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)
- Key personality: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- Key personality: Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953)
- Economical 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/Russian economy under Stalin.
- Society during World War II
- Anti-semitism and the holocaust
- Key personality: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- Key personality: Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- 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: Jospeh Goebbels (1897 - 1945)
- Key personality: Leni Riefenstahl (1902 - 2003)
- Key personality: Bing Crosby (1903 - 1997)
- Key personality: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- The elections of 1885 and 1886, issues and outcomes
- Dublin, 1913 strike and lockout
- The GAA to 1891
Delivery Method:
1. Correspondence
Private Tutor: Yes
Duration: 6 to 24 Months
Price: €395 €296

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