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History EE Research Question
Political History
Authoritarian States and Regimes
Emergence/Rise to Power (economic, social, ideological factors)
Consolidation and maintenance of power
Methods of control (propaganda, censorship, repression)
Case studies: Stalin, Mao, Castro (IBDP HL History Authoritarian States Paper 2 Content)
Potential EE Research Questions (World War 2 Authoritarian States Focus)
To what extent did Generalplan Ost and the Nazi “New Order” constitute a practical blueprint for the domination of post-war Europe rather than an ideological fantasy?
Key plans & texts: Generalplan Ost; Himmler & RSHA memoranda; The Black Book; Backe’s Hunger Plan; Speer’s architecture/armaments files; OKW/foreign office papers.
What each document claims vs what post-wartime capacity could realistically deliver. If Ideology could supersceed practical concerns.
Racial empire & Lebensraum: Germanization; removal/enslavement/starvation of “undesirable” populations across Eastern Europe: Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia; settlement of “Aryan” colonists.
Western vs Eastern model: comparatively lighter rule in Denmark/France vs annihilationist policy in Poland/USSR—racial hierarchy operationalized.
Political hegemony: a stratified Europe under the German jackboot—direct annexations in the East; compliant satellites in the West. Completely free to mend the continent to their desire.
“Was Hitler’s concept of Lebensraum primarily economic, racial, or geopolitical in motive?”
“How did Imperial Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere differ in conception and implementation from Germany’s New Order?”
“To what extent was Operation Barbarossa undermined by Hitler’s ideological objectives and meddling rather than strategic miscalculation?”
“How did German occupation policy differ between Western and Eastern Europe, and what does this reveal about Nazi racial hierarchy?”
More EE Ideas
To what extent did the United States’ political and military involvement in the Americas during the Cold War represent a continuation of the Monroe Doctrine, rather than a redefinition shaped by anti-communist ideology and global containment?
Cultural and Ideological History
Socio-Economic History
Main Areas of Focus
Economic Systems and Ideology
Capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies.
Industrialisation under Stalin and Mao: planned economies, collectivisation, and outcomes.
Keynesianism vs monetarism in post-war Western Europe.
Reconstruction & Development
Post-WWII recovery: Marshall Plan vs COMECON.
Bretton Woods and the creation of the IMF & World Bank.
Development economics in post-colonial nations (Lake Nasser in Egypt)
Labour, Class, and Social Change
Labour unions and social reform in Britain and the U.S.
Women in wartime economies (WWI/WWII) and post-war retrenchment.
Urbanisation, migration, and demographic change.
Globalisation and Inequality
Trade liberalisation, decolonisation, and dependency theory.
Economic imperialism and resource exploitation in Africa and Latin America.
Research Questions
Economic Reconstruction & Ideology
To what extent was the Marshall Plan designed as a tool of economic containment rather than reconstruction?
How did Soviet industrialisation under the Five-Year Plans transform the social hierarchy of the USSR between 1928–1939?
Development & Decolonisation
How far did economic dependency on former colonial powers shape Western African post-independence foreign policy?
Social Movements & Class Conflict
How did U.S. domestic economic inequality influence racial activism during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?
Historiogrpahy and Comparing Perspectives