Paper 1 - The Move to Global War
Paper 1 - Rights and Protest
Paper 1 - Conflict and Intervention
Paper 2 - Independence Movements
Paper 2 - Authoritarian States
Paper 2 - Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars
Paper 2 - The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries
Paper 3 - History of Europe
Paper 3 - History of the Americas
Paper 3 - History of Asia and Oceania
Section 1: Trade & Exchange: The Silk Road in the Medieval World
Section 2: Japan in the Age of the Samurai (1180–1333)
Section 3: Exploration, trade and interaction in East Asia & South-East Asia (1405–1700)
Section 4: The Rise & Fall of the Mughal Empire (1526–1712)
Section 5: Colonialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia
Section 6: India, Afghanistan and Burma (1750–1919)
Section 7: Challenges to Traditional East Asian Societies (1700–1868)
Section 8: British Colonialism & Emerging National Identities in Oceania (1788–1919)
Section 9: Early Modernization & Imperial Decline in East Asia (1860–1912)
Section 10: Nationalism & Independence in India (1919–1964)
Section 11: Japan (1912–1990)
Section 12: China and Korea (1910–1950)
Section 13: Impact of the Second World War on South-East Asia
Section 14: The People’s Republic of China (1949–2005)
Section 15: Cold War Conflicts in Asia
Section 16: Developments and Challenges in South Asia after 1947
Section 17: Oceania after the Second World War (1945–2005)
Section 18: Asia (excluding China, Japan and India) (1980–2005)
View a summary cheatsheet for Section 7: Challenges to Traditional East Asian Societies (1700–1868)
The Qing Dynasty
Internal Challenges
Chinese Tribute System
First and Second Opium Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Tokugawa Shogunate’s Rule in Japan
The Bakumatsu Period (1853–1868)