Leaving Cert History
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US Politics
US Foreign Policy 1945-73
Case Study: LBJ and Vietnam
Domestic Factors in Foreign Policy 1945-73
The Decline of Cold War Certainties from 1972-90
US Economic Boom 1945-69
The Declining Economy
The Affluent Society
The Age of Consensus 1945-69
Troubled Affluence
Case Study: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Troubled Affluence Continued
The Collapse of Consensus 1968-90
Advances in Technology
Case Study: The Moon Landing
Communism in Russia
Case Study: Stalin's Show Trials
The Growth of Fascism in Europe
Interwar Germany - 1920-39
Case Study: The Nuremberg Rallies
Economic and Social Issues in Interwar Britain (1920-39)
Case Study: The Jarrow March
Politics and Administration in France - Third Republic and Vichy State
Hitlers Foreign Policy 1933-39
The Second World War 1939-45
The Emergence of Northern Ireland (1920-45)
The Welfare State and Lord Brookeborough (1943-63)
The Terence O'Neill Years
Coleraine University Controversy *CASE STUDY
The Beginning of the Troubles (1969-72)
Direct Rule and Sunningdale 1972-74 *Part of CASE STUDY BELOW
Case Study: Sunningdale Agreement and the Power-Sharing Executive
Stalemate and a search for peace 1974-84
Peace in Sight 1985-93/4
Society and Culture in Northern Ireland
CASE STUDY: The Apprentice Boys of Derry
1912-Easter 1916
The Path Towards Independence (1918-1922)
The Anglo Irish Treaty and its Aftermath (The Civil War)
Cumann Na nGaedheal
Fianna Fail in Government (1932-39)
The Establishment of Northern Ireland (1920-39)
NI in WW2 and the Welfare State: Belfast Case Study
Impact of WW2 on the South
The Promotion of Cultural Identity in the North and South
Case Study: The Eucharistic Congress
The Rise of Parnell 1875-85
Case Study: The 1885/86 elections
Unionisation of the Working Classes
Case Study: Dublin 1913 Strike and Lockout
Cultural Nationalism
Case Study: The GAA 1891
Additional Extra on Cultural Nationalism
Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-39
Plato and The Republic
US Life and Culture
Nazi Germany
The Elections of 1885-86: issues and outcomes
Dublin 1913 - Strike and Lockout
1916 Rising
War of Independence
The Sunningdale Agreement and Power Sharing Executive, 1973-74
The Coleraine University Controversy
Stalemate and a Search for Peace 1974-84
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