A podcast covering the key bullet points of the IBDP History Syllabus, based around the scheme of work at www.activehistory.co.uk:

Consolidation and maintenance of power

• Use of legal methods; use of force; charismatic leadership; dissemination of propaganda

• Nature, extent and treatment of opposition

• The impact of the success and/or failure of foreign policy on the maintenance of power

Aims and results of policies

• Aims and impact of domestic economic, political, cultural and social policies

• The impact of policies on women and minorities

• Authoritarian control and the extent to which it was achieved