DP History Questionbank

Description

This section deals with the origins, outbreak, course and results of the French Revolution. It focuses on the social, economic, political and intellectual challenges confronting the ancien régime and the stages of the revolutionary process during this period, culminating in the rise and rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. The unit requires investigation of the impact of the French Revolution, as well as Napoleon’s domestic and foreign policies, upon France and its European neighbours.

• Crisis of the ancien régime: role of the monarchy especially Louis XVI; intellectual, political, social, financial and economic challenges

• Stages in, and radicalization of, the revolution: urban and rural revolt; Constitution of 1791; the fate of the monarchy; the Terror; Robespierre; Thermidorean Reaction; Directory

• Revolutionary wars to promote and defend revolutionary ideals 1792‑96

• Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

• Napoleon’s domestic and foreign policies pre- and post-1804; Napoleonic wars

• Collapse of the Napoleonic Empire and Bourbon restoration; Congress of Vienna

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.1:

  “Failure to solve the political challenges of the ancien régime caused the French Revolution.” Discuss.

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.2:

  “Napoleon’s domestic and foreign policies underwent major change after his coronation as Emperor in 1804.” Discuss.