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IB History: Command Terms
Section A
Directions: Match the Command Term with its definition.
- ____ Analyze
- ____ Compare
- ____ Compare and Contrast
- ____ Contrast
- ____ Define
- ____ Describe
- ____ Discuss
- ____ Distinguish
- ____ Evaluate
- ____ Examine
- ____ Explain
- ____ Identify
- ____ Justify
- ____ To what extent
- Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments, factors or hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should be presented clearly and supported by appropriate evidence.
- Consider the merits or otherwise of an argument or concept. Opinions and conclusions should be presented clearly and supported with appropriate evidence and sound argument
- Consider an argument or concept in a way that uncovers the assumptions and interrelationships of the issue.
- Give valid reasons or evidence to support an answer or conclusion.
- Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.
- Give an account of the differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout.
- Give a detailed account.
- Provide an answer from a number of possibilities.
- Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or items.
- Make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations.
- Give a detailed account including reasons or causes.
- Give an account of similarities and differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout.
- Give the precise meaning of a word, phrase, concept or physical quantity
- Give an account of the similarities between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout.
Section B: Unpacking the Question
Directions: Using the definitions of the Command Terms, read each question below and re-phrase the question in your own words.
- Analyze the results of two wars, each chosen from a different region
- “Wars create more problems than they solve.” Discuss this claim with reference to the causes and results of two wars (each chosen from a different region) during the 20th century.
- With reference to two wars, each chosen from a different region, explain to what extent the role and status of women was affected.
- Examine the role of warfare either at sea or in the air in two wars, each chosen from a different region.
- “Peace settlements create conditions for new conflicts.” With reference to at least two settlements explain to what extent you agree with this statement.
- Evaluate the successes and failures of one ruler of a single-party state.
- Compare and contrast the influence outside their own countries of Hitler and Mao.
- For what reasons, and with what results, did religious majorities fear religious minorities in the twentieth century?
- Assess the part played by differing ideologies in the origin of the Cold War.
- For what reasons, and with what results, was “limited” warfare a feature of the second half of the twentieth century?