Course topics.

Try this with Modern History

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• USA 1917–1932: divisions, the Twenties and the Crash
• USA 1933–1945: the New Deal, isolationism and total war
• Australia 1918–1949: soldier settlement, Depression, war and reconstruction
• Weimar Germany 1918–1933: revolution, crisis, recovery and collapse
• Nazi Germany 1933–1945: consolidation, the racial state and war
• Russia 1917–1929: revolutions, civil war, NEP and Stalin's rise
• USSR 1929–1953: Five Year Plans, collectivisation, terror and the Great Patriotic War
• Japan 1931–1941: militarism, Manchuria and the road to Pearl Harbor
• Japan 1941–1952: Pacific War, defeat, Occupation and San Francisco
• India 1930–1984: Raj to Partition, Nehru's India and Indira Gandhi
• Indonesia 1942–1975: occupation, revolution, Guided Democracy and the New Order
• China 1935–1949: Yan'an, war with Japan and the Civil War
• China 1949–1976: consolidation, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
• The world order 1945–2010: blocs, decolonisation, Asia's rise and globalisation
• Cold War origins to 1948 and the historians' debate
• Cold War crises, détente, the second Cold War and the collapse of the USSR
• Australia and one Asian nation since 1945: White Australia to partnership
• Terrorism since 1945: waves, methods, 9/11 and the War on Terror
• Migration 1945–2010: frameworks, displacement and consequences
• Writing a rated TASC essay: thesis, stimulus, evidence and historians