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    • Warfare - A study through time >
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      • Lesson 2 - Medieval >
        • Case Study - 1066 - Battle of Hastings
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        • Case Study - 1271 - Krak des Chevaliers
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      • End of Unit Test - Matu 3 - Switzerland and Napoleon
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      • Lesson 7 - Switzerland
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        • Tim Marshall - Russia
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      • Lesson 4 - Marxism
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    • Matu 10 - Totalitarian States >
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        • Hitler - Research presentations
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    • Matu 11 - World War II >
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    • Unit 1 - Bronze Age Greece >
      • Lesson 1 - Minoa
      • Lesson 2 - Myths
      • Lesson 3 - Atlantis
      • Lesson 4 - The Mycenaeans
      • Lesson 5 - Troy
      • End of Unit Test >
        • End of Unit Test - 1
    • Unit 2 - Classical Greece >
      • Lesson 1 - Archaic Period
      • Lesson 2 - Olympics
      • Lesson 3 - Athens
      • Lesson 4 - Democracy
      • Lesson 5 - Sparta
      • Lesson 6 - Greek Gods
      • Lesson 7 - Greek Legacy
      • End of Unit Test - 2
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      • Lesson 3 - Hannibal
      • Lesson 4 - Julius Caesar
      • Lesson 5 - Rome
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      • Lesson 1 - Empire
      • Lesson 2 - Roman Nyon
      • Lesson 3 - Pompeii
      • Lesson 4 - Rise and Fall
      • Lesson 5 - Legacy
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      • Lesson 2 - Christianity
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      • Lesson 4 - Justinian
      • Lesson 5 - Islam
      • Lesson 6 - Vikings
  • Year 11
    • Warfare - A study through time >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction >
        • Warfare - Timeline activity >
          • Students' Timelines 2020
      • Lesson 2 - Medieval >
        • Case Study - 1066 - Battle of Hastings
      • Lesson 3 - Crusades >
        • Case Study - 1271 - Krak des Chevaliers
      • Lesson 4 - New World >
        • Case Study - 1532 - Battle of Cajamarca
      • Lesson 5 - Religion >
        • Case Study - 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
      • Lesson 6 - Napoleon >
        • Case Study - 1796 - Battle of Lodi
      • Lesson 7 - Industrial >
        • Case Study - 1859 - Battle of Solferino
      • Lesson 8 - World War 1 >
        • Case Study - 1915 - The Battle of Ypres
      • Lesson 9 - 1930s >
        • Case Study - 1937 - Nanjing Massacre
      • Lesson 10 - Vietnam >
        • Case Study - 1968 - Tet Offensive
    • Matu 1 - The American Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - The Scientific Revolution
      • Lesson 2 - The Enlightenment >
        • The Enlightenment Test
      • Lesson 3 - Enlightened Monarchs
      • Lesson 4 - Colonising America
      • Lesson 5 - Thirteen Colonies
      • Lesson 6 - Boston Massacre
      • Lesson 7 - How Revolutionary?
      • Lesson 8 - Why Britain lost
      • Lesson 9 - Consequences
    • Matu 2 - The French Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction
      • Lesson 2 - Documentary
      • Lesson 3 - Causes SE
      • Lesson 4 - Causes CP
      • Lesson 5 - Short term causes
      • Lesson 6 - The Bastille
      • Lesson 7 - 1789-91
      • Lesson 8 - 1793 Execution
      • Lesson 9 - The Terror
  • S1 S2
    • Matu 3 - Switzerland and Napoleon >
      • Lesson 1 - Ancien Régime
      • Lesson 2 - 1789
      • Lesson 3 - Napoleon's Rise
      • Lesson 4 - Napoleon in Art
      • Lesson 5 - Napoleon's Reforms
      • Lesson 6 - Switzerland 1798-1815
      • Lesson 7 - Napoleon's Europe
      • End of Unit Test - Matu 3 - Switzerland and Napoleon
    • Matu 4 - Industrial Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - Why was Britain First?
      • Lesson 2 - Economics - Agriculture
      • Lesson 3 - Economics - Industry
      • Lesson 4 - Transport
      • Lesson 5 - Social Impact
      • Lesson 6 - Cultural Impact
      • Lesson 7 - Political Impact
      • Lesson 8 - Switzerland
      • End of Unit Test - Matu 4 - Industrial Revolution
    • Matu 5 - Nationalism >
      • Lesson 1 - Impact of French Revolution
      • Lesson 2 - Napoleon and Vienna
      • Lesson 3 - 1815-48 - Age of Revolution
      • Lesson 4 - Italian Unification - 1830-48
      • Lesson 5 - Switzerland 1815-48
      • Lesson 6 - Italian Unification - 1848-70
      • Lesson 7 - German Unification - 1848-71
      • Lesson 8 - The German Empire >
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      • Lesson 2 - Africa
      • Lesson 3 - Congo
      • Lesson 4 - China
      • Lesson 5 - Japan
      • Lesson 6 - Legacy
    • Matu 7 - World War 1 >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction
      • Lesson 2 - Causes
      • Lesson 3 - 1914
      • Lesson 4 - Expectations
      • Lesson 5 - Reality
      • Lesson 6 - Total War
      • Lesson 7 - Switzerland
      • Lesson 8 - Defeat
      • Lesson 9 - Peace 1919
    • Matu 8 - Russian Revolutions >
      • Lesson 1 - Russia before 1917 >
        • Tim Marshall - Russia
      • Lesson 2 - 1905 Revolution
      • Lesson 3 - February Revolution
      • Lesson 4 - Marxism
      • Lesson 5 - Lenin
      • Lesson 6 - The Bolsheviks
      • Lesson 7 - 1917-18
      • Lesson 8 - Civil War
    • Matu 9 - USA 1919-41 >
      • Lesson 1 - 1920s boom
      • Lesson 2 - Roaring 20s?
      • Lesson 3 - Crash
      • Lesson 4 - 1932 Election
      • Lesson 5 - New Deal
      • Lesson 6 - Judging the New Deal
    • Matu 10 - Totalitarian States >
      • Lesson 1 - Modern Authoritarianism
      • Lesson 2 - Fascism
      • Lesson 3 - Mussolini's Rise to Power
      • Lesson 4 - Mussolini Consolidation
      • Lesson 5 - Mussolini aims and policies
      • Lesson 6 - Research presentations >
        • Hitler - Research presentations
        • Stalin- Research presentations
      • Lesson 7 - Comparative analysis
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    • Matu 11 - World War II >
      • Lesson 1 - WW1
      • Lesson 2 - LoN
      • Lesson 3 - Hitler
      • Lesson 4 - Appeasement
      • Lesson 5 - 1939-40
      • Lesson 6 - Japan
      • Lesson 7 - Russia
      • Lesson 8 - Total War
      • Lesson 9 - Defeat
      • Lesson 10 - Switzerland
    • Matu 12 - The Cold War >
      • Lesson 1 - Origins
      • Lesson 2 - Causes
      • Lesson 3 - Berlin
      • Lesson 4 - 1950s
      • Lesson 5 - 1960s
      • Lesson 6 - 1970s
      • Lesson 7 - 1980s
    • Matu 13 - Decolonisation and the Third World >
      • Lesson 1 - Factors
      • Lesson 2 - Case studies
      • Lesson 3 - Consequences
    • Matu 14 - Switzerland >
      • Swiss Politics
      • Swiss History
    • Exams and Revision
  • IB History
    • Paper 1 >
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        • Question 1a
        • Question 1b
        • Question 2
        • Question 3
        • Question 4
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      • 7. Industrialization >
        • Activity 1
        • First and Second Industrial Revolution
      • 8. Independence movements
      • 10. Authoritarian States >
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        • Consolidation and maintenance
        • Aims and policies
      • 11. Warfare
      • 12. Cold War
    • IA
  • TOK
    • Critical Thinking >
      • Lesson 1 - Thinking >
        • Lesson 1 - Test
      • Lesson 2 - Language
      • Lesson 3 - Senses
      • Lesson 4 - Reason
      • Lesson 5 - Emotion
      • Assessment >
        • Movie perception test
        • Complete film
        • Student Films 2021
    • Knowledge Framework
    • History >
      • Scope in history
      • Method and perspective in history
      • Ethics in history
    • Human Science >
      • Scope in human science
      • Method and perspectives in human science
      • Ethics in human science

Year 11 - Warfare: A study through time

Lesson 9 - Third Generational Warfare - War in the interwar years
Big questions and some more answers 

Last lesson we looked at the First World War, a war that not only marked a turning point (watershed!) in the history of warfare, but as you will see when you study the Matu, it also marked a turning point in the history of the world in general. The Belle Époque optimism that human civilisation was making continuing progress was shattered in the trenches of Verdun and the Somme and forever remembered on the 11th of November and in village war memorials built all over Europe. The First World War was the logical conclusion of the 'second generation' warfare but at the very end with the development of tanks and aircraft we also saw a glimpse of the 'third generation' war to come. The First World War was also the first industrial 'total' war. The unprecedented geographical scale of the conflict, the countless dead on the battlefields, but above all, the engagement of the population in the struggle on the 'home front' meant that the traditional distinction between soldier and civilian was becoming blurred. Civilians who were casualties of war were still 'innocent victims', but only just. By the end of the war, and in the 'inter-war' years that followed, civilian casualties gradually became 'acceptable' or 'inevitable' victims of modern war. Long before the Second World War began in Europe in September 1939 civilians would become the intended targets of military campaigns.  This is what this lesson will examine. 

Heritage Object - Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937, Museo Reina Sofía Madrid.
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Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country town in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.  Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition.
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A bit of background

The Wall Street Crash (Matu 9) and Great Depression of 1930s brought to power new governments that were nationalistic and militaristic. They are often described as ‘fascist’. These governments were anti-democratic and abandoned the post-war attempts to maintain peace via the League of Nations.  (Matu 10) Mussolini's Italy, Hitler’s Germany and Imperial Japan were all engaged in conflicts in the 'inter-war' period which gave the world a taste of what war was to become. ​ Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of these regimes was their belief in their racial superiority. Just as with the medieval crusades - remember Pope Urban II called the muslims 'foul creatures' -  barbaric behaviour can then easily be justified if the 'other' that you fight is somehow dehumanised. (Dehumanisation is stage 4 in the 10 stages of genocide)  
Third Generational War - 'The bomber will always get through'

The concept of blitzkrieg (lightening war) is central to the idea of third generation war and stands in stark contrast the trench war of attrition and defence that characterised the First World War. Through the use of tanks, mechanised infantry, and close air support, an army would be able to quickly break through defences. Significant technological developments in aircraft design and manufacture meant that by the 1930s it became possible for aircraft to fly hundreds of kilometres before dropping high explosives on a target below. 
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In 1932, the British politician Stanley Baldwin (Prime Minister 1923-4, 1924-29 and 1935-37) made a famous speech entitled 'A Fear for the Future' in which he explained how in a future war bomber aircraft will be able to destroy whole cities and there was little that could be done to stop it. He famously said 'the bomber always gets through'. His chilling conclusion  was that future wars would require one to "kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves." ​​
The Second Italo-Abyssinian War October 1935 

Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had long held a desire for a new Italian Empire. Ethiopia was a prime candidate of this expansionist goal as it was considered to be militarily weak, but rich in resources. Despite having signed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Italian armed forces used grenades and bombs loaded with mustard gas, which were dropped from airplanes and also sprayed directly from above like an insecticide onto enemy combatants and villages. They also set up forced labour camps, installed public gallows, killed hostages, and mutilated the corpses of their enemies. Italian commander Graziani ordered the elimination of captured guerrillas by throwing them out of airplanes in mid-flight. 
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The bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War – 26th April 1937
 
After a failed military uprising led by General Franco against the democratically elected Spanish government in July 1936, Spain descended into civil war.  Franco's forces were supported by the fascist dictatorships in Europe. 
The bombing of Guernica was an aerial attack by planes of the German Luftwaffe ‘Condor Legion’ and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria on the Basque town of Guernica. The attacks destroyed the majority of Guernica, a centre of great cultural significance to the Basque people but of no military significance. Three quarters of the city's buildings were reported completely destroyed, and most others sustained damage.  The Basque government figures released at the time put the largely civilian casualty toll at a minimum of 1,654 dead and 889 wounded.  The Times journalist George Steer arrived in Guernica soon after the bombing and filed a report that alerted the world the the changed nature of warfare and inspired Picasso to produce his painting. (See left) 
Franco went on to win the civil war and ruled Spain as a military dictator until his death in November 1975.
​The massacre of Nanjing – December 1937
 
It might be argued that the Second World War actually began with the invasion of China by Japan in July 1937. The massacre of Nanjing, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The event is still little known in the West and has been described as the 'The Forgotten Holocaust of World War Two'.  The total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East stated that 20,000 women were raped. Rapes were often committed in public during the day, sometimes in front of family members that were tied up and forced to watch. The women were then killed immediately after the rape, often through mutilation. There are even stories of Japanese troops forcing families to commit acts of incest. Thousands were led away and mass-executed in the ‘Ten-Thousand-Corpse Ditch’, a trench measuring about 300m long and 5m wide. Since records were not kept, estimates regarding the number of victims buried in the ditch range from 4,000 to 20,000.
Conclusion - World War Two

During the Second World War - the deadliest war in human history - the killing of an enemy considered to be racially inferior led to an estimated total of 70–85 million deaths, the majority of whom were civilian. This number includes the six million killed in the Holocaust. It is very difficult to visualise these numbers. As Stalin is said to remarked 'The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.'  This graphical film does help to make sense of it. 
Activities

  1. ​Explain what is meant by 'third generation' warfare and Stanley Baldwin's phrase that 'the bomber always gets through'.
  2. ​'The morality and ethics of warfare changed in the 1930s'. Discuss this statement with reference to the war in Abyssinia, the bombing of Guernica and the massacre of Nanjing. 
Part 2 - Case study 1937 Nanjing Massacre.​

Finally, when you have completed the case study, add '1937 Nanjing Massacre.' to your timeline. If you want you can also add Abyssinia and Guernica. Write between 50 and 100 words and try to upload a picture or a video to go with it. 
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    • Unit 1 - Bronze Age Greece >
      • Lesson 1 - Minoa
      • Lesson 2 - Myths
      • Lesson 3 - Atlantis
      • Lesson 4 - The Mycenaeans
      • Lesson 5 - Troy
      • End of Unit Test >
        • End of Unit Test - 1
    • Unit 2 - Classical Greece >
      • Lesson 1 - Archaic Period
      • Lesson 2 - Olympics
      • Lesson 3 - Athens
      • Lesson 4 - Democracy
      • Lesson 5 - Sparta
      • Lesson 6 - Greek Gods
      • Lesson 7 - Greek Legacy
      • End of Unit Test - 2
    • Unit 3 - Roman Republic >
      • Lesson 1 - Foundation
      • Lesson 2 - Republic
      • Lesson 3 - Hannibal
      • Lesson 4 - Julius Caesar
      • Lesson 5 - Rome
    • Unit 4 - Roman Empire >
      • Lesson 1 - Empire
      • Lesson 2 - Roman Nyon
      • Lesson 3 - Pompeii
      • Lesson 4 - Rise and Fall
      • Lesson 5 - Legacy
    • Unit 5 - The early Middle Ages >
      • Lesson 1 - Middle Ages?
      • Lesson 2 - Christianity
      • Lesson 3 - Monasteries
      • Lesson 4 - Justinian
      • Lesson 5 - Islam
      • Lesson 6 - Vikings
  • Year 11
    • Warfare - A study through time >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction >
        • Warfare - Timeline activity >
          • Students' Timelines 2020
      • Lesson 2 - Medieval >
        • Case Study - 1066 - Battle of Hastings
      • Lesson 3 - Crusades >
        • Case Study - 1271 - Krak des Chevaliers
      • Lesson 4 - New World >
        • Case Study - 1532 - Battle of Cajamarca
      • Lesson 5 - Religion >
        • Case Study - 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
      • Lesson 6 - Napoleon >
        • Case Study - 1796 - Battle of Lodi
      • Lesson 7 - Industrial >
        • Case Study - 1859 - Battle of Solferino
      • Lesson 8 - World War 1 >
        • Case Study - 1915 - The Battle of Ypres
      • Lesson 9 - 1930s >
        • Case Study - 1937 - Nanjing Massacre
      • Lesson 10 - Vietnam >
        • Case Study - 1968 - Tet Offensive
    • Matu 1 - The American Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - The Scientific Revolution
      • Lesson 2 - The Enlightenment >
        • The Enlightenment Test
      • Lesson 3 - Enlightened Monarchs
      • Lesson 4 - Colonising America
      • Lesson 5 - Thirteen Colonies
      • Lesson 6 - Boston Massacre
      • Lesson 7 - How Revolutionary?
      • Lesson 8 - Why Britain lost
      • Lesson 9 - Consequences
    • Matu 2 - The French Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction
      • Lesson 2 - Documentary
      • Lesson 3 - Causes SE
      • Lesson 4 - Causes CP
      • Lesson 5 - Short term causes
      • Lesson 6 - The Bastille
      • Lesson 7 - 1789-91
      • Lesson 8 - 1793 Execution
      • Lesson 9 - The Terror
  • S1 S2
    • Matu 3 - Switzerland and Napoleon >
      • Lesson 1 - Ancien Régime
      • Lesson 2 - 1789
      • Lesson 3 - Napoleon's Rise
      • Lesson 4 - Napoleon in Art
      • Lesson 5 - Napoleon's Reforms
      • Lesson 6 - Switzerland 1798-1815
      • Lesson 7 - Napoleon's Europe
      • End of Unit Test - Matu 3 - Switzerland and Napoleon
    • Matu 4 - Industrial Revolution >
      • Lesson 1 - Why was Britain First?
      • Lesson 2 - Economics - Agriculture
      • Lesson 3 - Economics - Industry
      • Lesson 4 - Transport
      • Lesson 5 - Social Impact
      • Lesson 6 - Cultural Impact
      • Lesson 7 - Political Impact
      • Lesson 8 - Switzerland
      • End of Unit Test - Matu 4 - Industrial Revolution
    • Matu 5 - Nationalism >
      • Lesson 1 - Impact of French Revolution
      • Lesson 2 - Napoleon and Vienna
      • Lesson 3 - 1815-48 - Age of Revolution
      • Lesson 4 - Italian Unification - 1830-48
      • Lesson 5 - Switzerland 1815-48
      • Lesson 6 - Italian Unification - 1848-70
      • Lesson 7 - German Unification - 1848-71
      • Lesson 8 - The German Empire >
        • Matu 5 - End of Unit Test
      • Jared Diamond thesis
    • Matu 6 - New Imperialism >
      • Lesson 1 - New Imperialism?
      • Lesson 2 - Africa
      • Lesson 3 - Congo
      • Lesson 4 - China
      • Lesson 5 - Japan
      • Lesson 6 - Legacy
    • Matu 7 - World War 1 >
      • Lesson 1 - Introduction
      • Lesson 2 - Causes
      • Lesson 3 - 1914
      • Lesson 4 - Expectations
      • Lesson 5 - Reality
      • Lesson 6 - Total War
      • Lesson 7 - Switzerland
      • Lesson 8 - Defeat
      • Lesson 9 - Peace 1919
    • Matu 8 - Russian Revolutions >
      • Lesson 1 - Russia before 1917 >
        • Tim Marshall - Russia
      • Lesson 2 - 1905 Revolution
      • Lesson 3 - February Revolution
      • Lesson 4 - Marxism
      • Lesson 5 - Lenin
      • Lesson 6 - The Bolsheviks
      • Lesson 7 - 1917-18
      • Lesson 8 - Civil War
    • Matu 9 - USA 1919-41 >
      • Lesson 1 - 1920s boom
      • Lesson 2 - Roaring 20s?
      • Lesson 3 - Crash
      • Lesson 4 - 1932 Election
      • Lesson 5 - New Deal
      • Lesson 6 - Judging the New Deal
    • Matu 10 - Totalitarian States >
      • Lesson 1 - Modern Authoritarianism
      • Lesson 2 - Fascism
      • Lesson 3 - Mussolini's Rise to Power
      • Lesson 4 - Mussolini Consolidation
      • Lesson 5 - Mussolini aims and policies
      • Lesson 6 - Research presentations >
        • Hitler - Research presentations
        • Stalin- Research presentations
      • Lesson 7 - Comparative analysis
    • Exams and Revision
  • S3
    • Matu 11 - World War II >
      • Lesson 1 - WW1
      • Lesson 2 - LoN
      • Lesson 3 - Hitler
      • Lesson 4 - Appeasement
      • Lesson 5 - 1939-40
      • Lesson 6 - Japan
      • Lesson 7 - Russia
      • Lesson 8 - Total War
      • Lesson 9 - Defeat
      • Lesson 10 - Switzerland
    • Matu 12 - The Cold War >
      • Lesson 1 - Origins
      • Lesson 2 - Causes
      • Lesson 3 - Berlin
      • Lesson 4 - 1950s
      • Lesson 5 - 1960s
      • Lesson 6 - 1970s
      • Lesson 7 - 1980s
    • Matu 13 - Decolonisation and the Third World >
      • Lesson 1 - Factors
      • Lesson 2 - Case studies
      • Lesson 3 - Consequences
    • Matu 14 - Switzerland >
      • Swiss Politics
      • Swiss History
    • Exams and Revision
  • IB History
    • Paper 1 >
      • Paper 1 - Content
      • Paper 1 - Questions >
        • Question 1a
        • Question 1b
        • Question 2
        • Question 3
        • Question 4
      • Paper 1 - Skills
    • Paper 2 >
      • 7. Industrialization >
        • Activity 1
        • First and Second Industrial Revolution
      • 8. Independence movements
      • 10. Authoritarian States >
        • Rise to power
        • Consolidation and maintenance
        • Aims and policies
      • 11. Warfare
      • 12. Cold War
    • IA
  • TOK
    • Critical Thinking >
      • Lesson 1 - Thinking >
        • Lesson 1 - Test
      • Lesson 2 - Language
      • Lesson 3 - Senses
      • Lesson 4 - Reason
      • Lesson 5 - Emotion
      • Assessment >
        • Movie perception test
        • Complete film
        • Student Films 2021
    • Knowledge Framework
    • History >
      • Scope in history
      • Method and perspective in history
      • Ethics in history
    • Human Science >
      • Scope in human science
      • Method and perspectives in human science
      • Ethics in human science