!! History HL 2015 ... predictions, guesses and discussion

irishlad12345 · 25-05-2015 11:01PM

its Ireland 60th aniversary of joining the UN so a question on Ireland and joining the UN could come up

orangey24 · 26-05-2015 10:36AM

I'm cutting down the courses a lot ...

Case study: treaty
Dictatorship and democracy: Stalin and Lenin USSR
Movements for reform: GAA mainly, with cultural revivals
USA: foreign policy, with particular focus on Vietnam war

Does anyone think these have good chance coming up? I was hoping to learn a few essays for backup... Just wondering if anyone has essays on
Characteristics of stalins rule
How Lenin and Stalin brought about communism

Technology of warfare (would really appreciate this)

Any notes at all/ essays would be great! Didn't have a great teacher so don't really know how to go about it all

LeeLee97 · 26-05-2015 10:50AM

orangey24 wrote: »

I'm cutting down the courses a lot ...

Case study: treaty
Dictatorship and democracy: Stalin and Lenin USSR
Movements for reform: GAA mainly, with cultural revivals
USA: foreign policy, with particular focus on Vietnam war

Does anyone think these have good chance coming up? I was hoping to learn a few essays for backup... Just wondering if anyone has essays on
Characteristics of stalins rule
How Lenin and Stalin brought about communism

Technology of warfare (would really appreciate this)

Any notes at all/ essays would be great! Didn't have a great teacher so don't really know how to go about it all

Stalin and Lenin's contribution to Communism is an extremely difficult essay.... I can see them coming up together though, Lenin hasn't been on the paper in years. I'd have a look at Eucharistic Congress just incase.

hiddenrabbit · 26-05-2015 11:05AM

I'm doing Home Rule and The Lockout for Ireland
Hitler Foreign Policy, Nazi propaganda, & Stalin
Montgomery/Race Relations/MLK
Oh and The Treaty

Will somebody please tell me this is enough to get me by, our teacher was very vague and evasive all year when asked what to study!

Deranged96 · 26-05-2015 04:43PM

hiddenrabbit wrote: »

I'm doing Home Rule and The Lockout for Ireland
Hitler Foreign Policy, Nazi propaganda, & Stalin
Montgomery/Race Relations/MLK
Oh and The Treaty

Will somebody please tell me this is enough to get me by, our teacher was very vague and evasive all year when asked what to study!

Your decision to just study troubled affluence for the American section is dodgy tbh. Go over Foreign Policy too.

hiddenrabbit · 26-05-2015 05:03PM

Deranged96 wrote: »

Your decision to just study troubled affluence for the American section is dodgy tbh. Go over Foreign Policy too.

Going through the exam papers there's only one year it didn't come up so!

Anonymagician · 26-05-2015 05:20PM

orangey24 wrote: »

I'm cutting down the courses a lot ...

Case study: treaty
Dictatorship and democracy: Stalin and Lenin USSR
Movements for reform: GAA mainly, with cultural revivals
USA: foreign policy, with particular focus on Vietnam war

Does anyone think these have good chance coming up? I was hoping to learn a few essays for backup... Just wondering if anyone has essays on
Characteristics of stalins rule
How Lenin and Stalin brought about communism

Technology of warfare (would really appreciate this)

Any notes at all/ essays would be great! Didn't have a great teacher so don't really know how to go about it all

I would study something other than Russia, just in case. Technology of Warfare is a handy essay, PM me if you want some notes I have on it.

Anonymagician · 26-05-2015 05:29PM

I'm doing

Unionism
GAA
Lockout(?)

Stalin with some Lenin
Technology of warfare

Montgomery Bus Boycott/MLK
Cuban Missile Crisis

Does anyone have any other back up suggestions?

westernfrenzy · 26-05-2015 06:09PM

Anonymagician wrote: »

I'm doing

Unionism
GAA
Lockout(?)

Stalin with some Lenin
Technology of warfare

Montgomery Bus Boycott/MLK
Cuban Missile Crisis

Does anyone have any other back up suggestions?

For America:
Korea and Berlin along with Cuba. They usually ask them in the one question.
A question of some of the presidents could come up too

Dictatorships and Democracy:
Britain/Jarrow March
France.

JimLarkin101 · 26-05-2015 06:23PM

This is what I have so far. Any suggestions appreciated!

-Stalin & Lenin
-Hitler foreign policy & state
Is there a large chance of Jews/Holocaust coming up? Anyone think Germany's Economy will make an appearance? Possibly with Britain?

-1885/6 elections
-Parnell & Butt Home Rule

-Wilhelm's Naval Policy & Weltpolitik in general.
-Bismarck
-Imperialism

orangey24 · 26-05-2015 06:43PM

LeeLee97 wrote: »

Stalin and Lenin's contribution to Communism is an extremely difficult essay.... I can see them coming up together though, Lenin hasn't been on the paper in years. I'd have a look at Eucharistic Congress just incase.

Ok thanks ! Yea I don't have a clue how to go about that essay! If they were to come up together I'm hoping it would maybe how they contributed economically and socially ... But to be honest it would love a question purely just based on Stalin and the show trials

LeeLee97 · 26-05-2015 06:51PM

orangey24 wrote: »

Ok thanks ! Yea I don't have a clue how to go about that essay! If they were to come up together I'm hoping it would maybe how they contributed economically and socially ... But to be honest it would love a question purely just based on Stalin and the show trials

It would be an incredibly enduring task to write about both of them in an essay. That would be the dream essay, as long as Russia comes up on its own I'll be somewhat happy.

gracew · 26-05-2015 07:20PM

Can someone give me a simple structure for a USA foreign policy essay please that i'll be able to manipulate on the day? I'm leaving it very late as it is but it's such a wide chapter, Thanks in advance!

Bourke97 · 26-05-2015 09:30PM

Hey! For Movements and reform I'm only doing everything on home rule and land reform!

USA:
-MLK in particular/bus boycott/civil rights struggle!
-foreign policy- Cuba/Korea/Berlin! I'm leaving out Vietnam? Is that a wise thing to do because Cuba etc hasn't been asked since 2010-2012 so it's likely to come up?
-policy of containment??
Dictatorship and democracy:
-Lenin and Stalin and everything on them!
Hitler and everything on him!
Is this enough??

gracew · 26-05-2015 09:59PM

For USA I'm doing:

-Economic boom
-MLK, Civil rights movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Advances in military technology

Does that sound safe enough?

Bourke97 · 26-05-2015 10:16PM

gracew wrote: »

For USA I'm doing:

-Economic boom
-MLK, Civil rights movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Advances in military technology

Does that sound safe enough?

That sounds safe enough! Two options there is likely to come up! If you were studying foreign policy, would you leave out the Vietnam war and learn only Berlin/Korea/Cuban missile crisis? Wanna narrow it down as much as possible? Thanks.

Internetscour · 27-05-2015 01:12AM

Surely Ian Paisleys death last year makes him a front contender?

cab15 · 27-05-2015 09:22AM

I'm doing:
N.I
-Welfare state
-Coleraine
-Sunning Dale
-Appreciate boys

Dictatorship&Democracy
-stalin/Lenin
-Nuremburg rallies/propaganda

USA
-Vietnam
-Bus boycott

Random Q but our history teacher gave us the Lyndon Johnson quote "that bitch of a war" speaking about Vietnam, of course. Acceptable to use in an answer about "Johnson as President" and how the Vietnam War led to his downfall, or a bit risky?

Internetscour wrote: »

Surely Ian Paisleys death last year makes him a front contender?

Possibly - maybe thats what they want you to think so they won't put him up. It wouldn't be Paisley on his own though it might be the economic developments in NI

gracew · 27-05-2015 04:16PM

Bourke97 wrote: »

That sounds safe enough! Two options there is likely to come up! If you were studying foreign policy, would you leave out the Vietnam war and learn only Berlin/Korea/Cuban missile crisis? Wanna narrow it down as much as possible? Thanks.

I think that would be fine because Vitneam war kind of came up last year with Johnson's strength and weaknesses and Berlin/ Korea / Cuban missile crisis haven't came up in a good few years and a general foreign policy essay is overdue

DesuDesuChan · 27-05-2015 06:55PM

I would really love if Johnson came up, but chances are probably slim. Sigh.

IrishLoriii · 27-05-2015 07:31PM

Hey guys,
Would anyone be able to tell me if im being too risky with these?? Thank you

Document
-Treaty
Eucharistic Congress

Govt Economy and society in ROI
Jack Lynch and Sean Lemass
The UN and Membership of EEC (Which affected Ireland more)
Impact of TV and/or Vatican II in ROI

Dictatorship and Democracy
All of Russia (Stalin and Lenins policies, show trials)
All of Germany ( Propaganda, foreign policy, Weimar republic conditions leading to hitler)

USA Topic
Race Relations, Anti War Movement,
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Vietnam War

Bourke97 · 27-05-2015 07:47PM

gracew wrote: »

I think that would be fine because Vitneam war kind of came up last year with Johnson's strength and weaknesses and Berlin/ Korea / Cuban missile crisis haven't came up in a good few years and a general foreign policy essay is overdue

Yeah I was thinking the same thing! I think a general question on why The U.S. Became involved in the Vietnam war or something along those line if it did come up ☺️

spottyapples · 27-05-2015 08:19PM

Reading through everyone's predictions and I'm just sitting here thinking I'm f***ed for history... Anyone with me?

Shanmcg97 · 27-05-2015 08:36PM

IrishLoriii wrote: »

Hey guys,
Would anyone be able to tell me if im being too risky with these?? Thank you

Document
-Treaty
Eucharistic Congress

Govt Economy and society in ROI
Jack Lynch and Sean Lemass
The UN and Membership of EEC (Which affected Ireland more)
Impact of TV and/or Vatican II in ROI

Dictatorship and Democracy
All of Russia (Stalin and Lenins policies, show trials)
All of Germany ( Propaganda, foreign policy, Weimar republic conditions leading to hitler)

USA Topic
Race Relations, Anti War Movement,
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Vietnam War

Everything you've said is everything I'm covering too but one thing for gov Eco and society we have been warned to know is Charlie haughy quite well. If that's any help ðŸ˜€

hiddenrabbit · 27-05-2015 09:21PM

spottyapples wrote: »

Reading through everyone's predictions and I'm just sitting here thinking I'm f***ed for history... Anyone with me?

Spottyapples I feel you fam!

Anonymagician · 27-05-2015 09:30PM

History is such a high risk subject like there is a possibility I will go in and literally be completely unable to answer any question. It'd have to be a very weird paper but it's still a possibility. You just cannot learn all of the course.

gracew · 27-05-2015 10:07PM

Anonymagician wrote: »

History is such a high risk subject like there is a possibility I will go in and literally be completely unable to answer any question. It'd have to be a very weird paper but it's still a possibility. You just cannot learn all of the course.

That happened to me in the mock paper nothing came up that I learned strangely enough, failed obviously

Bourke97 wrote: »

Yeah I was thinking the same thing! I think a general question on why The U.S. Became involved in the Vietnam war or something along those line if it did come up ☺️

I have a feeling they're going to completely avoid Vitneam war this year and focus more on the social and economical side along with of course a foreign policy/ presidential essay

irishlad12345 · 27-05-2015 10:34PM

for my project i did the cuban missile crisis if it comes up can i answer it or is there some rule against it

IrishLoriii · 27-05-2015 10:45PM

irishlad12345 wrote: »

for my project i did the cuban missile crisis if it comes up can i answer it or is there some rule against it

I thought there was a rule that your not allowed to do anything on the course at the moment for the history project? There was a few girls in my class that wanted to do Marilyn Monroe but she's a key personality so they weren't allowed to??

Bourke97 · 27-05-2015 11:00PM

gracew wrote: »

That happened to me in the mock paper nothing came up that I learned strangely enough, failed obviously

I have a feeling they're going to completely avoid Vitneam war this year and focus more on the social and economical side along with of course a foreign policy/ presidential essay

Do you think they'll ask about the Berlin blockade, Korean War and Cuban missile crisis as the foreign policy question?? Because I've a feeling they'll ask that for us. If you look at the 2011 paper for both dictatorship and democracy and U.S., our paper may be similar to that, according to the pattern maybe?

!! History HL 2015 ... predictions, guesses and discussion

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