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

• Section One technique: origin and message, context and purpose, reliability, usefulness and representations across three sources
• Australia in 1918 and the 1920s: returned soldiers, Soldier Settlement, Country Party, 'Men, money, markets' and unionism
• The Great Depression, the 1931 Labor Split and foreign policy 1918–39 (Paris 1919, League, 1926 Imperial Conference, Statute of Westminster, Japan)
• World War II and the home front, Chifley's reconstruction, the 1949 election, women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences and ideas
• Russia in 1914, World War I, Nicholas II and the February and October Revolutions of 1917
• Civil War, Brest-Litovsk, the Red Terror, Trotsky, the creation of the USSR and Stalin's rise to 1929
• War Communism, NEP, the Great Turn, social impact, Stalinist control and victory in the Great Patriotic War
• China in 1945, the GMD–CCP conflict, Mao and Jiang, and the 1949 change of regime
• Building the communist state 1949–66, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution 1966–76
• International relations 1949–78, Mao's death and the Gang of Four, Deng's reforms, Democracy Wall and Tiananmen 1989
• Sections Two and Four technique: proposition, narrative, argument, evidence, interpretations and conclusion under the 30-mark key
• Ideology, the Communist Bloc, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade to 1949
• Arms race, Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall, Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine, détente and the new Cold War
• Collapse of the Communist Bloc, Soviet break-up, German reunification, Yugoslavia and the EU/Eurozone; leaders and ideas
• Australia and Asia to 1949, forward defence and Menzies: China 1949, Korea, the Malayan Emergency and Vietnam
• Colombo Plan, ANZUS, SEATO, ASEAN, APEC and peacekeeping in post-war Japan, Cambodia and East Timor/Timor-Leste
• From White Australia to multiculturalism, Asian refugees and immigration debates, trade with Asia and domestic political impacts
• The establishment of Israel 1945–48 and the Arab–Israeli wars of 1948–49, 1956, 1967 and 1973
• Lebanon, the Intifadas, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran–Iraq War, the First Gulf War and US, British and Soviet involvement
• Armistice 1949, Resolution 242, Camp David 1978, the 1979 treaty, Oslo, Camp David 2000, the UN, key individuals and ideas