Mr. Edwards' IB History of the Americas HL Year 1 & 2 Notes (all as links or in pdf format). The lack of CSS on this page is entirely intentional.
Year 1
Unit 1: Colonial Wiki
British Middle Colonies (Student Presentation)
British New England Colonies (Student Presentation)
British Southern Colonies (Student Presentation)
Portuguese Colonies (Student Presentation)
Spanish Colonies (Student Presentation)
Unit 2: American Revolution
2.1 French and Indian War
2.2 Causes of the American Revolution
2.3 Shot Heard 'Round the World
2.4 Revolutionary War
Unit 3: Foundations of American Governments
3.1 Civics in One Day
3.2 Constitution Ratification
3.3 Washington's Presidency
3.4 Adam's Presidency
3.5 Jefferson's Presidency & the War of 1812
3.6 Jackson's Presidency
3.7 Canada Intro
3.8 Colonial Canada
Unit 4: Latin American Revolutions
4.1 Causes of LA Revolutions
4.2 Caudillos
4.3 Juarez & Maximillien
Haitian Revolution (Student Presentation)
Mexican Independence Movement 1810-1824 (Student Presentation)
South American Independence Movement of Simon Bolivar (Student Presentation)
South American Independent Movement of Jose San Martin (Student Presentation)
Autonomous Revolution of Paraguay (Student Presentation)
Brazilian Independence Movement (Student Presentation)
Unit 5: Africans in the Americas
5.1 Slavery in the Americas
5.2 Life After Slavery
Unit 6: Road to the Civil War
6.1 Compromises
6.2 Mexican War
6.3 Short-Term Causes
Unit 7: The Civil War and Reconstruction
7.1 Civil War
7.2 Life After Lincoln
7.3 Reconstruction
Unit 8: Late 19th Century
8.1 Westward Expansion
8.2 Indian Policy
8.3 Populism!
8.4 Industrialization
8.5 Labor
8.6 Urbanization & Immigration
Chapter 13: Canadian Immigration (Student Presentation)
Chapter 15: Urbanization & Women's Rights (Student Presentation)
Unit 9: US Foreign Policy
9.1 Spanish American War
9.2 US Imperialism in Asia
9.3 Big Stick & Dollar Diplomacy
Unit 10: Mexican Revolution
10.1 Causes of the Mexican Revolution
10.2 Madero & Huerta
10.3 Zapata and Villa
10.4 Carranza
10.5 Obregon
10.6 Calles
10.7 Cardenas
Unit 11: Progressivism & WWI
11.1 Teddy Roosevelt
11.2 William Howard Taft
11.3 Woodrow Wilson
11.4 Wilson's Foreign Policy to 1917
11.5 Home Front WWI
11.6 Treaty of Versailles
11.7 Kissinger on Versailles
11.8 WWI in Canada
Unit 12: Great Depression
12.1 Causes of Great Depression (USA)
12.2 Causes of Great Depression (CAN)
Year 2
Unit 1: WWI
1.1 Long-Term Causes of WWI Timeline 1871-1914
1.2 Short-Term Causes of WWI 1905-1914
1.3 Treaty of Versailles and Aftermath
Unit 2: Russian Revolution
2.1 Russian Revolution
2.2 Rise of the Single Party State
2.3 A Communist Party
Unit 3: Road to WWII
3.1 Causes of WWII
3.2 The Road to WWII
3.3 Causes of the Great Depression USA
3.4 Canada in the Depression
Unit 4: Hitler and WWII
Chapter 1: The Formative Years
Chapter 2: The Years of Struggle
Chapter 3: Years of Waiting
Chapter 4: The Months of Opportunity
Chapter 5: Revolution After Power
Chapter 6: The Counterfeit Peace
Chapter 7: The Dictator
Chapter 8: From Vienna to Prague
Chapter 10: An Inconclusive Victory
Chapter 11: The World Will Hold Its Breath
Chapter 12: The Unachieved Empire
Chapter 13: Two Julys
Unit 5: WWII and the Causes of the Cold War
5.1 Road to WWII in America (Blum and Ambrose)
5.2 WWII in the Americas (Ambrose, Bennett, Blum)
5.3 Brave New World
5.4 Origins of the Cold War
Unit 6: Cold War to 1963
6.1 Containment
6.2 Korean War
6.3 Suez Crisis
6.4 Hungarian Revolt
6.5 Berlin Crisis
Unit 7: Cold War to 1991
7.1 Origins of Cuban Missile Crisis
7.2 Rattling Missiles
7.3 Missiles in Cuba
7.4 Resolution
7.5 Nixon
7.6 Yom Kippur War
7.7 The End of the Cold War
Unit 8: Communist Cuba
8.1 Old Cuba
8.2 Between Old and New
8.3 Socialist Cuba
Unit 9: Vietnam
9.1 Entry into the Morass
9.2 On the Road to Despair
9.3 Extrication from Vietnam
9.4 Post-Maoist China