Leaving Cert History
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German Economy 1919-1938
Holocaust
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Lenin
Stalin
Mussolini
Hitler
Goebbels
Winston Churchill
JM Keynes
Leni Riefenstahl
Charlie Chaplin
Bing Crosby
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1. The Nuremberg Rallies
2. The Moscow Show Trials
3. The Jarrow March
Empire
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Mohandas Gandhi
Ho Chi Minh
Achmad Sukarno
David Ben-Gurion
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Charles de Gaulle
Sese Seko Mobutu
a development worker in Africa
Nadine Gordimer
Chinua Achebe
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1. British withdrawal from India, 1945-1947
2. The secession of Katanga, 1960-1965
3. Race relations in France in the 1980s
NI
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Key Personalities
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Terence O'Neill
Ian Paisley
John Hume
Gerry Adams
James Molyneaux
Conn and Patricia McCluskey
Brian Faulkner
Margaret Thatcher
Bernadette Devlin
Seamus Heaney
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1. The Apprentice Boys of Derry
2. The Coleraine University Controversy
3. The Failure of the Sunningdale Agreement
SP
Intro and Notes
Key Personalities
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Patrick Pearse
Michael Collins
Eamon de Valera
Arthur Griffith
Countess Markievicz
W. T. Cosgrave
James Craig
James J. McElligott
Evie Hone
Richard Dawson Bates
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1. The Treaty Negotiations
2. Belfast during World War II
3. The Eucharistic Congress
USA
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Key Personalities
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Harry Truman
Joe McCarthy
Martin Luther King
Lyndon Johnson
the 'Organisation Man'
Betty Friedan
Norman Mailer
Muhammad Ali
Billy Graham
Marilyn Monroe
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1. The Montgomery bus boycott, 1956
2. Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1968
3. The Moon landing, 1969
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Both levels need to know the Case Studies in detail. This is especially important for Ordinary Level students, but Higher Level cannot neglect them. They can be your saving grace in an exam!