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 * HISTORY SYLLABUS FORM IV **

**BIMESTER 1: STALINIST RUSSIA. THE USSR 1924-1939 **


 * Power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin: why Stalin came on top.
 * Stalin´s political, economic and social policies: e.g. Industrialization, Collectivization: repression; purges; show trials and cult of personality
 * Evaluation of Stalin´s dictatorship.

**BIMESTER 2: THE USA 1918-1939 **


 * Years of boom and prosperity after First World War
 * Emergence of the car industry, consumer goods and electric appliances
 * The Roaring Twenties: music and entertainment
 * Prohibition: causes and consequences
 * Segregation and discrimination of black minorities and farmers.
 * The economy: protectionism, rugged individualism and its consequences.
 * Years of Depression 1929-39.
 * Roosevelt and the New Deal. Alphabetical Agencies.

**BIMESTER 3: THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR **


 * Review of events that led to the war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; tabstops: list .5in;">Review of major events in Europe. e.g. occupation of Poland, Phoney War, Fall of France, Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarrosa, D-Day and the collapse of the Axis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; tabstops: list .5in;">American intervention: Pearl Harbour and the war in the Pacific
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; tabstops: list .5in;">International Conferences: Atlantic Charter; Teheran; Yalta and Potsdam
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; tabstops: list .5in;">Origins of the Cold War.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; tabstops: list .5in;">Overview of international crises: Berlin Blockade and Airlift; Korea; Vietnam and Cuba.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BIMESTER 4: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Topic prescribed by the Examiners Board for the current year 2012: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Polish, Hungarian and Czech uprisings <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1956-1968 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Solidarity in Poland 1982 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Political, social and economic situation of countries in Eastern Europe. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> How secure was the USSR`s control over Eastern Europe 1948-1989? **

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