IB History flashcards
3 decks · 216 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: IB Diploma Programme IB History current subject guide (prescribed subjects and world history topics); SL and HL in one deck, HL-only cards under subtopic tags starting HL. Updated 2026-10-10.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 2 decks · 156 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Authoritarian States 53
- Emergence 15
- Consolidation and Maintenance 20
- Aims and Results of Policies 18
- The Cold War 55
- Origins and Historiography 12
- Containment and Early Crises 14
- Cuba and Vietnam 9
- Sino-Soviet Split and Détente 12
- End of the Cold War 8
- Causes and Effects of 20th-Century Wars 108
- Types of War 9
- First World War 17
- Chinese Civil War 10
- Spanish Civil War 11
- Second World War in Europe 17
- Second World War in Asia-Pacific 11
- Algerian War 8
- Nigerian Civil War 9
- Iran–Iraq War 9
- Falklands-Malvinas War 7
A study plan
- 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
- Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 3 IB History decks (216 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied): History guide for first assessment 2020, world history topics 10 and 12. A new History course is first assessed in May 2028.
- OpenStax World History, Volume 2, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied): History guide for first assessment 2020, world history topic 11. A new History course is first assessed in May 2028.
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied).
- Short quotations are from public-domain texts: Truman's address to Congress (1947), Eisenhower's press conference of 7 April 1954 and the official English text of Article 9 of Japan's constitution (1947).
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