AICE International History AS (World History Grad. Req.)

Course Description

For more information about this Cambridge course, visit the curriculum page of the Cambridge Assessment International Education website. 

The key concepts for Cambridge International AS & A Level History are:

• Cause and consequence: The events, circumstances, actions and beliefs that have a direct causal connection to consequential events and developments, circumstances, actions or beliefs. Causes can be both human and non-human.
• Change and continuity: The patterns, processes and interplay of change and continuity within a given time frame.
• Similarity and difference: The patterns of similarity and difference that exist between people, lived experiences, events and situations in the past.
• Significance: The importance attached to an event, individual or entity in the past, whether at the time or subsequent to it. Historical significance is a constructed label that is dependent upon the perspective (context, values, interests and concerns) of the person ascribing significance and is therefore changeable.
• Interpretations: How the past has been subsequently reconstructed and presented by historians. International option: International history, 1870–1945
• Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870–1919
• The League of Nations and international relations in the 1920s
• The League of Nations and international relations in the 1930s
• China and Japan, 1912–45

Additional Information

Meets World History Graduation Requirement.

Typically taken in the 10th grade year. Students must sit for the Cambridge AICE Exam, which may be after the end of the school year.