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History Essay Choices

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  • 20-01-2010 6:33pm
    #1
    Donnie_Dark0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    Im currently undertaking the strenuous task of getting my head around the amount of information required for history.
    It would be great if someone could point me in the right direction in regards to what exactly i should study. :)

    For example in Dictatorship and Democracy would it be safe for me to study:

    just Mussolini and Hitler
    or
    just Mussolini and Stalin

    i.e Just studying two dictators instead of all three...

    Thanks :D


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    #2
    OoOROiSiNOoO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭OoOROiSiNOoO


    I'd say you'll get away with leaving Stalin out, think I'm doing that!


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    zam
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    If you want you can just learn all the case studies and you'll be sorted but obviously that's not a great idea..


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    Donnie_Dark0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Donnie_Dark0


    zam wrote: »
    If you want you can just learn all the case studies and you'll be sorted but obviously that's not a great idea..

    That sounds great why would it not be a good idea?
    Is one case study bound to come up in each section?


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    AxlRose1992
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    Donnie_Dark0 wrote: »
    That sounds great why would it not be a good idea?
    Is one case study bound to come up in each section?
    I did a bit of looking through the papers to see how often case studies come up, and generally at least 1 comes up. Not all the time, but about 90% of the time.


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    Donnie_Dark0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Donnie_Dark0


    US Case studies:
    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Space Race
    Vietnam War & Lyndon B Johnson

    Irish: Sovereignity & Partition:
    Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations
    Belfast during WWII
    1932 Eucharistic Congress

    Dictatorship & Democracy:
    Stalin's Show Trials
    Nuremberg Rallies
    Jarrow March, October 1936


    If i studied just these am i guaranteed at least one will come up in each section?


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    Mary007
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    That's what I am going to do anyways, yano just focus on the case studies. I have no hope otherwise and they more than likely will come up.


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    theowen
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    Mary007 wrote: »
    That's what I am going to do anyways, yano just focus on the case studies. I have no hope otherwise and they more than likely will come up.
    They're arn't gauranteed to come up. And, they may mention them and then ask you to expand onto other areas of the course; risky business indeed.


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    Mary007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Mary007


    theowen wrote: »
    They're arn't gauranteed to come up. And, they may mention them and then ask you to expand onto other areas of the course; risky business indeed.

    It's that or nothing I'm afraid, history is the only subject I have done no work in in either 5th or 6th year. I was even considering giving it up. Opted to learn the case studies now instead and just hope for the best. Worst comes to worst there's always LCVP.


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    Donnie_Dark0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Donnie_Dark0


    theowen wrote: »
    They're arn't gauranteed to come up. And, they may mention them and then ask you to expand onto other areas of the course; risky business indeed.

    Yeah didnt think it would be that easy....
    How would you recomend i tackle Dictatorship & Democracy /The United States And The World...
    For instance just doing two dictators...bad idea?


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    zam
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    Learn the case studies and you'll be sorted basically. But you need to know the wider areas around each one, for example if asked about the Anglo-Irish Treaty they might ask you how it led to the Civil War, or instead of asking only about the Belfast Blitz they'd ask about World War 2's impact on Northern Ireland.


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    Keogg
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    As far as I know the document question is definitely on Northern Ireland (unless there's choices involved, I'm not too sure) So you should really study over that too.
    My advice would probably be the case studies and then just writing out notes from the book, maybe even just lists of names and dates from different areas.
    If all else fails, ask your teacher, I'm sure he/she would be willing to help, even though you haven't done work up until now, most teachers are nice enough to help you if you want to change that


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    RexMundi
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    Keogg wrote: »
    As far as I know the document question is definitely on Northern Ireland (unless there's choices involved, I'm not too sure) So you should really study over that too.
    My advice would probably be the case studies and then just writing out notes from the book, maybe even just lists of names and dates from different areas.
    If all else fails, ask your teacher, I'm sure he/she would be willing to help, even though you haven't done work up until now, most teachers are nice enough to help you if you want to change that

    Documents question is on Northern Ireland. We have no choice.

    Only Case Studies are needed to be known in detail for documents but background may be helpful. Definatley for NI section spend pretty much all your time on Case Studies maybe just read the rest once or twice over the coming months.


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    Donnie_Dark0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Donnie_Dark0


    Ok well i think its a bit risky just studying the case studies so for "The pursuit of Sovereignty and the impact of partition" i studied this...

    -Case Study:The treaty Negotiations
    -The Civil War
    -Cumann Na nGaedheal (In Government/Economy/Anglo-Irish Relations)
    -Fianna Fail (In Government/Economy/Anglo-Irish Relations)

    If that was all i covered would i get away with it for that particular question?
    Theres bound to be a question on something there?

    I might throw in the War of Independence 1919-21 and im sorted id say...


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