Year One Final Exam

The end of the year is quickly approaching as is your final exam.

General Details
Time: up to three hours.
Format: three essay questions.
Content: Napoleon I to the First World War and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Details
There will be four sections of questions and you will be required to pick the three questions from three different sections. You must choose one question from the fourth section.

Section one will consist of questions from Napoleon I and the Congress of Vienna, section two will consist of questions for the Revolutions of 1848 and Unifications, section three will consist of questions about the start and course of the First World War, while the final section will consist of questions for the end of the First World War and the Russian Revolutions.

Bonus Question on the Exam
Where does the picture come from and how is it connected to this course?

Help Preparing for the Exam

You should review past tests and assignments.

You may wish to check review or revision notes found at sites such as history at Pearson College.

There can be helpful links for IB essay such as RJ Tarr's essay tips, and the IB History Page. Please note that the second has not been fully reviewed by the instructor of this course.

Tsarist Russia and the Russian Revolutions

You may wish to follow the edited simulation found at Tour of Tsarist Russia and complete the worksheet found on the first page as you progress across Russia.



Who is this Rasputin Character you have read about? See the disco explanation at Youtube. Why the costumes? Popular view of Russia.

The first image is from Bloody Sunday 1905 and the second is the last image of Czar Nicholas II.

Test #2 First World War

The general topic areas for the second test for the First World War are:
- technology and war
- end of the conflict
- impact of the war upon society

Links for First World War on the Web

The BBC site has a comprehensive overview of World War One as well as good articles and links to specific topics such as the quality of leadership and technology in the war.

The site "firstworldwar.com" contains many primary documents and summaries of various topics.

The World War One Document Archive sponsored by Brigham Young University is a good source for primary documents.

The PBS site is organized in more of a thematic manner than the BBC site, but still contains good quality material and of particular interest are the interviews with various historians.

Unification of Germany and Otto von Bismarck

"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night." Attributed to Otto von Bismarck.

Readings for Bismarck and from Machiavelli's The Prince.

A presentation for Eighteenth Century Nationalism from an AP history website.

A document packet for German Nationalism.

Podcast from the BBC on the subject of Otto von Bismarck.