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Unit Title
Contemporary
International
Issues
1.0
Unit Content Subject Titles
 The Issue of Conflict:
Global Issues - challenges to the Nation State - political,
social and economic challenges to the nation-state and
national identity:
Peace in Ireland
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Peace in Ireland.
Arab – Israel Conflict 1948 – 2010.
Fundamentalism.
Conflict in South Africa 1948-1994.
International Terrorism
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
 The UN as Peacekeeper
 Wealth and poverty – individuals and nations; the
issue of aid
 The environment
 Movements of people - migration and refugees.
 The problems of establishing stable government
– eg Afghanistan, South America, Central America, Fiji,
Solomon Islands, East Timor, Myanmar, Thailand, Italy.
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Social, political and economic conditions
preceding 1968.
Rise of the Civil Rights Movement.
Aims and tactics of the Irish Republican Army
and Protestant militia groups.
Social and economic effects of the continued
violence on the people.
Changing policies of British Governments
towards the Republic of Ireland and Northern
Ireland.
1998 Peace Treaty and its implications.
Arab – Israel Conflict 1948 – 2010
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Fundamentalism
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Conflict in South Africa 1948 –2000
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Creation of Israel.
Arab-Israeli War 1948; Suez Crisis; The Six Day
War; The Yom Kippur War; Lebanon.
Palestine and the PLO.
Peace Initiatives from the 1970’s onwards.
The first and second Intifadas
Role of outside influences.
The nature and rise Fundamentalism in
Judaeo/Christian/Muslim religions
The Islamic Republic of Iran
Rise of the Taliban.
The Christian Right in USA
Civil libertarianism
Role
of
terrorist
groups
within
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Fundamentalist movement.
International consequences of fundamentalism
Nature and impact of Apartheid
African National Congress
Growing opposition to Apartheid – Sharpeville
(1960); Soweto (1976).
International response – sanctions, sporting
bans, disinvestments.
The role of Nelson Mandela and others (eg
Botha)
End of apartheid and reconciliation (eg
Desmond Tutu)
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International Terrorism
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
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UN as Peacekeeper 1946 – 2010
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Contemporary
Issues in Africa
and the Middle
East
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The Issue of Conflict:
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A new Crusade?
Terrorism in the 1970s
September 11, 2001
Iraq and Afghanistan
Bali bombing and its impact
Civil liberties in a time of terrorism
Colonialism and its impact
Ethnic tensions
Failure of the international response
Outcomes
The colonial legacy and the formation of a
nation state
The role of Robert Mugabe– perceived and real
– liberator and African strong man
Economic collapse
Internal resistance and international pressures.
The formation of the United Nations.
Interpretations of human rights and international
law: national sovereignty.
Agencies which assist in peace keeping.
UN interventions – eg Korea 1950, Congo 1960,
Cyprus 1964, former Yugoslavia after 1989, .El
Salavador 1991 –1995, Somalia 1992 – 93,
Etritea and Ethiopia 2000 – 2004.
Arab – Israel Conflict 1948 – 2010.
Fundamentalism.
Conflict in South Africa 1948-1994.
International Terrorism
Rwanda
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Zimbabwe
Regional Issues - challenges to the Nation State - political,
social and economic challenges to the nation-state and
national identity:
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Arab – Israel Conflict 1948 – 2010
The UN as Peacekeeper
Wealth and poverty – individuals and nations; the
issue of aid
The environment
Movements of people - migration and refugees.
The problems of establishing stable government –
eg Afghanistan, the Congo.
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Fundamentalism
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The nature and rise Fundamentalism in
Judaeo/Christian/Muslim religions
The Islamic Republic of Iran
Rise of the Taliban.
Role
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terrorist
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within
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Fundamentalist movement.
International consequences of fundamentalism
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Nature and impact of Apartheid
African National Congress
Growing opposition to Apartheid – Sharpeville
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Conflict in South Africa 1948 –2000
Creation of Israel.
Arab-Israeli War 1948; Suez Crisis; The Six Day
War; The Yom Kippur War; Lebanon.
Palestine and the PLO.
Peace Initiatives from the 1970’s onwards.
The first and second Intifadas
Role of outside influences.
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International Terrorism
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
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A new Crusade?
Terrorism in the 1970s
September 11, 2001
Iraq and Afghanistan
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Colonialism and its impact
Ethnic tensions
Failure of the international response
Outcomes
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The colonial legacy and the formation of a
nation state
The role of Robert Mugabe– perceived and real
– liberator and African strong man
Economic collapse
Internal resistance and international pressures.
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UN as Peacekeeper 1946 – 2010
(1960); Soweto (1976).
International response – sanctions, sporting
bans, disinvestments.
The role of Nelson Mandela and others (eg
Botha)
End of apartheid and reconciliation (eg
Desmond Tutu)
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The formation of the United Nations.
Interpretations of human rights and international
law: national sovereignty.
Agencies which assist in peace keeping.
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War in the Modern
World (1.0)
Content Areas
 Napoleonic Wars
 Crimean War
 American Civil War
 Latin American Wars of Independence
 Franco-Prussian War
 Spanish-American War
 Boer War
 Balkan Wars
 WWI
 WWII
 Colonial Wars of Liberation
 Spanish Civil War
 Cold War
 Peacekeeping Operations
 Asymmetric warfare and the War on Terror.
UN interventions – eg Congo 1960, Cyprus
1964, Somalia 1992 – 93, Etritea and Ethiopia
2000 – 2004, Darfur 2005 onwards.
In each conflict, there shall be five areas of study:
1. The Nature of Conflict
 How conflict evolves
 Theories of conflict
 Theories of warfare.
2. Causes of War
 Consideration of short term and long term causes e.g.
cultural, political, social, economic.
3. Course of War
 Analysis of tactics/strategy/technological development
 Deployment and exploitation of resources and materiel
 Leading personalities in the war
 Ideas/ideologies of the war
 Evaluation of turning points
 Investigation of the evolution of warfare.
4. Impacts and Outcomes of War
 Consideration of short term and long term impacts and
outcomes e.g. cultural, political, social, economic,
technological, environmental
 Evaluation of the evolution of warfare.
5. Resolutions
 Investigate and evaluate the resolution of war e.g. truce,
War and
Resolution in the
20th Century (0.5)
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WWI
WWII
Cold War
Peacekeeping Operations
treaty, alliance, conditions, development of organisations.
 Effect of and effect on individuals.
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In each conflict, there shall be five areas of study:
1. The Nature of Conflict
 How conflict evolves
 Theories of conflict
 Theories of warfare.
2. Causes of War
 Consideration of short term and long term
causes e.g. cultural, political, social, economic.
3. Course of War
 Analysis of tactics/strategy/technological
development
 Deployment and exploitation of resources and
materiel
 Leading personalities in the war
 Ideas/ideologies of the war
 Evaluation of turning points
 Investigation of the evolution of warfare.
4. Impacts and Outcomes of War
 Consideration of short term and long term
impacts and outcomes e.g. cultural, political,
social, economic, technological, environmental
 Evaluation of the evolution of warfare.
5. Resolutions
 Investigate and evaluate the resolution of war
e.g. truce, treaty, alliance, conditions,
development of organisations.
 Effect of and effect on individuals.
Revolutions in the
Modern World
(1.0)
Content Areas
 The English Revolution (1625-1689)
 The French Revolution
 Industrial Revolution
 The Russian Revolution.
 The American Revolution
 The Chinese Revolution
 The Cuban Revolution
 Islamic Revolution
In each revolution, there shall be four themes for
study:
1. The Nature of Revolutions
 What is a revolution?
 Models of revolution.
2. The Old Regime and the origins of the revolution
 Political, social and economic life in prerevolutionary society
 Causes of tension
 Reasons for government unwillingness or
inability to adjust.
3. Revolutionary events, ideas, movements and
leaders
 Turning points and chronology of the revolution
 Leading personalities of the revolution
 Ideas/ideologies of the revolution
 Revolutionary movements/groups/organisations.
4. The New Society (move forward to a post
revolutionary stage)
 Comparison of political, economic and social
differences between the new society and the
pre-revolutionary one
Who “won” and who “lost” out of the revolution?
Russia from
Revolution to the
Present
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Overview of Russia under the Romanov from
1815 to 1905.
Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Revolution
Russia and World War I
The February Revolution, the Provisional
Government and end of Tsarism.
Rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
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Influence of Marx and his writings.
October Revolution.
Role of Lenin and Trotsky.
USSR under Stalin
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Economic policies - Five Year Plans.
Cultural policies.
Purges.
USSR and World War II and USSR role in Allied
victory.
The Cold War
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Mistrust surfaces after the War.
The Soviet creates a "buffer zone" in Eastern
Europe.
Détente, Glasnost and the Collapse of Soviet Russia.
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Brezhnev, Détente and the New Cold War.
Gorbachev and his Glasnost and Perestroika.
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Post Communist Russia
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The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
and the USSR.
The Commonwealth of Independent States
A new Russian democracy?
Yeltsin
Putin
The Russian Mafia and economic crises
Relations with former Soviet states and the
West
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Russia from Tsar to Stalin
Tsarist Russia
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Russia from Tsar
Overview of Russia under the Romanov
from 1815 to 1905.
Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Revolution
Russia and World War I
The February Revolution, the Provisional
Government and end of Tsarism.
Rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
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Influence of Marx and his writings.
October Revolution.
Role of Lenin and Trotsky.
USSR under Stalin
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Economic policies - Five Year Plans.
Cultural policies.
Purges.
USSR and World War II and USSR role in Allied
victory.
 Overview of Russia under the Romanov from 1815 to
Tsarist Russia
to Stalin (0.5)
Native and African
Americans (1.0 &
0.5)
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1905.
Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Revolution
Russia and World War I
The February Revolution, the Provisional
Government and end of Tsarism.
Rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
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Influence of Marx and his writings.
October Revolution.
Role of Lenin and Trotsky.
USSR under Stalin
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Native Americans
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Economic policies - Five Year Plans.
Cultural policies.
Purges.
USSR and World War II and USSR role in Allied
victory.
Diversity of geographical settings, cultural
groups, mythologies, religions and world views,
contact and conflict before 19th century
Culture of the Plains Indians e.g. cultural
groups, mythologies, religions and world views
Changing representation of the native American
peoples e.g. the noble savage, the brute
Native Americans in a European world since
1850 -. the ‘Indian Wars’ and the destruction
Traditional (Indian) cultures of culture e.g.
reserves and acculturation
Changing society and ‘Red Power’ in the 1960s
and 1970s
Images of native Americans in modern culture.
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African Americans
American History
Freedom and
Resistance (1.0)
The colonisation of America (Cultural Clash)
American Revolution
Industrialisation, Westward Expansion and Manifest
Destiny
Slavery and the Civil War
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Early slavery and the slave trade
19th century American society – the concept of
institutional slavery
 Civil War
 Reconstruction and ‘Jim Crow’
 Black America since 1954 - civil rights
 Analysis of ‘black power’
 Cultural shifts such as representation in the
entertainment industry
Political and economic changes – from Reagan to
Bush.
 Traditional Native-American life
 A look at the impact of settlers on the
indigenous peoples of the Americas
 The response of different indigenous tribes to
the settlers
 The establishment of the thirteen colonies.
 The causes and background to this split with
Britain
 To what extent was religious belief a factor in early
American politics?
 How did the concept of Manifest Destiny
influence American foreign policy?
 Some treatment of the Louisiana Purchase, the
War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine
 The impact of industrialisation - economic, social
and political results.
 Was slavery the real issue in the Civil War what were the interests of the North in terms of
economic dominance?
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Post Civil War America
American History
Freedom and
Power
(1.0)
America in 1919 (Becoming a World Power)
The Roaring Twenties
The military, social and political aspects of the
conflict
 The assassination of Lincoln
 Post-war reconstruction and its impact on the South.
 Social aspects of the Frontier experience
 Industrial and economic development
 Foreign policy
 Immigration and social changes.
Summary of WWI and Treaty of Versailles
Wilson versus Isolationism.
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The Great Depression in America
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America on the international stage
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Social and cultural developments e.g. popular
culture (jazz, Hollywood), prohibition, organised
crime, Scopes Trial, the Klan
Evaluate the economic and political policies of
the period.
Examination of the social and economic effects
of the Depression in the U.S
The impact of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt
on Depression society, with a focus on the short
term and long term consequences of the New
Deal.
The demise of the theory of isolationism and the
emergence of the U.S. as “world police”
Gradual involvement in WWII
Cold War
The emergence of McCarthyism
The Domino theory and the Communist threat
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Social and Cultural aspects of Post-War America
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Encounters with
the West (1.0)
China
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The Civil Rights movement in America
Baby-boomers, popular culture
Other protest movements e.g. students, hippies,
feminists, anti-war
Social and cultural developments post-Vietnam
War.
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Chinese society prior to the advent of European
contact: post 15th/16th century
East India Company
Opium Wars
Manchu dynasty and its relationship to Western
colonial powers
Boxer Rebellion
Chinese nationalism and the collapse of the
dynasty in 1911
WWI and the changing focus of Western Powers.
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Feudal Japan
Meiji Restoration
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Japan
America’s involvement in conflicts such as
Korea and Vietnam
Consideration of the presidents of this era and
their policies e.g. Truman, Kennedy, Johnson
and Nixon, may be an optional method of
addressing these issues
Elements of American foreign and domestic
policy since the Cold War.
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India
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Indonesia
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Malaysia
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Philippines
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Modernisation of Japan (e.g. adoption of German
Parliament, German military, British Navy,
American influences).
Traditional cultures in India before British
colonial rule.
East India company and early contacts
Pre-1857 colonial India
Mutiny
The Raj and British consolidation
Indian Nationalist Movement
Independence and Partition
Post-independence India.
Traditional life in Indonesia before the Dutch
colonial rule
The nature of Dutch colonial rule
The impact of Japanese occupation on
Nationalist movements
Post war struggle for independence
Post-independence Indonesia.
Traditional life in Malaysia before British colonial
rule
British rule of Malaya and Singapore
Impact of World War II
Post-independence Malaysia.
Traditional life in the Philippines before Spanish
colonial rule
Spanish colonial rule
American colonial rule
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Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos)
Africa
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Modern China
from Manchu to
Mao
China at the turn of the Twentieth Century
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Early acknowledgement by USA of right to self
rule
Impact of Japanese occupation
Establishment of independent republic
Post-independence Philippines.
Traditional life in Indo-China
French colonisation and administration
Impact of Japanese occupation on the rise of
nationalism
The French war and French withdrawal
The American war in Indo-China
Post-independence Indochina.
Traditional cultures
The European ‘Scramble for Africa; reasons for
colonisation
Differences between European policies towards
colonies – eg Belgian Congo, British Kenya,
German Tanganyika, French Cameron
The role of African individuals – eg Kenyatta
and Nkrumah
Independence movements
Revolts – eg Mau Mau in Kenya
Effects of independence
Dislocation of populations
Problems of tribalism and the decline of
democracy
Life in China prior to Western Penetration
The Opium Wars and their effects
Boxer Rebellion (causes and results).
(1.0& 0.5)
Fall of the Manchus
Rise of Nationalism
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China after World War I
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Mao and the Nationalists
China under Chairman Mao
China Since Mao
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Reasons for weakness of Manchu Dynasty
Effect of Russo-Japanese War
1911 Revolution
Feelings towards foreigners in China
Rise of Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) and the
Guomindang
Conflicts between Guomindang and Yuan
Shukai
Japan’s Twenty One Demands.
Sun Zhongshan’s Three Principles
Warlord rule
Rise of Marxism and the formation of the
Chinese Communist Party
Purges of Communists 1927.
The Long March
Sino-Japanese War
Assistance from USSR to Mao after defeat in
WW II
Deposition of National Government
Declaration of People’s Republic of China 1949.
Collectivisation
The Hundred Flowers Campaign
The Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Détente.
The Gang of Four
Economic reforms (Deng Xiaoping)
Political reforms
Foreign Relations Since 1949
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Vietnam and the
Killing Fields:
Conflict in
Indochina
(1.0)
Colonisation & Decolonisation of Indochina
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The American War
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Tiananmen Square
Taiwan/Tibet.
Sino-Soviet relations
Sino-American relations
Developing engagement with Asia (North Korea,
India, Japan)
Developing engagement with the wider world
(Africa, Australia, Pacific region)
French Colonisation
Administration of French colonies
The French War (culminating in the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu) and French withdrawal
Division of Vietnam along the 38th parallel
Decline into civil war.
Communism and the Domino Effect
Outline US foreign policy with regard to SouthEast Asia
US Military influence in the region prior to the
Tonkin Resolution
Escalation of American involvement (including
Allies, e.g. Australia)
Military strategies (US, Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese)
Vietnamisation (Nixon doctrine and the shift in
American foreign policy)
Economic and social effects (long and short term) of
the war on Vietnam, US and the wider world.
The Killing Fields – Cambodia
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Vietnam and the
Killing Fields:
Conflict in
Indochina
(0.5)
Social and political conditions that led to the rise
of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
Policies of the Khmer Rouge
Genocide
Fall of the Khmer Rouge
Economic and social effects (long and short term) of
Communist rule.
Conflict in Laos
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Historical background
Growth of nationalist resistance movements
The Pathet Lao
Civil War
Communist Laos
Colonisation & Decolonisation of Indochina
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French Colonisation
Administration of French colonies
The French War (culminating in the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu) and French withdrawal
Division of Vietnam along the 38th parallel
Decline into civil war.
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The American War
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Communism and the Domino Effect
Outline US foreign policy with regard to SouthEast Asia
US Military influence in the region prior to the
Tonkin Resolution
Escalation of American involvement (including
Allies, e.g. Australia)
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The Killing Fields – Cambodia
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Conflict in Laos
The Indian
Subcontinent in
the Modern Era
(1.0 & 0.5)
Background to the Raj and the origins of the Nationalist
movement:
Nationalist Movements
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Military strategies (US, Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese)
Vietnamisation (Nixon doctrine and the shift in
American foreign policy)
Economic and social effects (long and short term) of
the war on Vietnam, US and the wider world.
Social and political conditions that led to the rise
of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
Policies of the Khmer Rouge
Genocide
Fall of the Khmer Rouge
Economic and social effects (long and short
term) of Communist rule.
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Historical background
Growth of nationalist resistance movements
The Pathet Lao
Civil War
Communist Laos
An overview of traditional Indian society prior to
the British
Background to the Raj and the national struggle
Significance of WW1 and the Amritsar Massacre.
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Creation of the Indian National Congress
Campaign of Civil Disobedience in India
Roles played by Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah in
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Partition and Independence of India and Pakistan
India after Independence
Partition of Pakistan and Bangladesh
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Modern Japan –
From Togkugawa
to Today (1.0 &
0.5)
Feudal Japan – The end of an era
Meiji Japan
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the Independence movement in India
Government of India Act 1935
Rivalry between Hindu controlled Congress
Party and the All Indian Muslim League
Muslim desire to establish a separate Muslim
state
Impact of WWII.
Role of Lord Mountbatten in Partition
Establishment of Dominion of India and
Dominion of Pakistan
Conflict over Kashmir.
Policies of Nehru as Prime Minister
Chinese intervention in Tibet
Prime Ministership of Indira Gandhi
Present problems such as Sikh nationalism and
child labour.
Role of Bhutto
Present conflicts between each country
especially concerning Kashmir
Problems faced by each country (e.g. social,
economic, cultural, environmental etc).
Traditional Culture and Shintoism
Policies of the Tokugawa state (Bakufu)
Black ships and the Unequal Treaties
End of Feudalism
Early Revolution
Japan in the Twentieth Century
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Changing Japanese identity
Changing attitude to the West
Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Rescript on
education (1890).
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Sino Japanese War
Russo Japanese War
World War I and the 21 Demands
Rice Riots (1917)
Manchurian Incident
Invasion of China (1937)
World War II – Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Reconstruction post World War II
Economic Miracle and the Information
Technology Age (1960-present)
Foreign relations with the wider world e.g.
China, the Koreas, USA, Australia etc
Define the development of the region of the
Middle East as a cultural entity
The significance of religious influences (Islam,
Judaism and Christianity) to the region
The significance and collapse of the Ottoman
Empire (rise of new states)
The emergence of modernisation and
secularism in the region (Turkey under Ataturk)
The impact of WWI and the emergence of the
Mandate system
WWII and post-war settlement.
Religious claims to the territory of Palestine
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The Middle East:
Search for
Resolution (1.0)
Background to the Region
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Palestine/Israel
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Nasser and Arab Nationalism
The Middle East in Transition
The Middle East: Directions for the 21st Century
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Australian
Journeys:
Chosen or
Compelled? (1.0)
Indigenous Pre-History??
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(Torah, Koran)
The emergence of Zionism
The role of Britain (WWI, the Balfour
Declaration)
The Mandate (Arab responses, Jewish
migration and activism, impact of the Holocaust)
Partition and the events of 1948.
The rise of Nasser and Pan-Arabism
The role of the Superpowers in the region (e.g.
the Cold War)
The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1956, 1967, 1973
The rise of Palestinian nationalism and the PLO.
Camp David
Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraqi War
First Gulf War
Oslo Accords and the road to Palestinian
Statehood.
The rise of Islamic Fundamentalism (e.g.
beliefs, goals, tactics)
September 11 and the War on Terror
The Second Gulf War
Prospects for peace (the Occupied Territories,
the role of the UN, the dependence on oil).
Theories of Indigenous migration to Australia
(archaeological evidence, Lake Mungo, Lake
George, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve etc)
Movement and distribution of Indigenous
population
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Contact, Trade and the age of exploration
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British Colonial Interests
The Early Colonies
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Convicts
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Free Settlers
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies
and economies- resources, spirituality, social
organisation
Indigenous stewardship of land.
Macassans and trade in Northern Australia
Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and French
exploration of Australia
Debate over who were the first explorers to
discover Australia
The Indigenous responses.
Motivations- strategic, economic, colonial, social
Conditions in Britain
Debate over why Britain settled in Port Jackson
Penal settlement e.g. Port Jackson, Van
Diemen’s Land, etc
Free settlement e.g. Swan River, South
Australia, etc
Initial contact, coexistence and conflict
Treatment and contribution of women.
Development and operation of convict system
Emancipists and Exclusivists
Contribution and treatment of male and female
convicts
Motivation for migration
Contribution to commerce, agriculture and
administration
Colonial experience
Problems faced by colonial women
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European Expansion and Exploration
Impact of European Expansion
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Squatters
End of Transportation
Gold, Migration and Social Change
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Impact and contribution to change, eg. Caroline
Chisholm
Exploration of coastline and the interior
The importance of the river systems
Motivations of explorers
Consequences.
Impact of interaction, e.g. disease,
dispossession
Conflict and response, e.g. social, cultural,
economic, spiritual
Early colonial policy, e.g. Macquarie’s school,
cooperation
Resistance, e.g. Pemulwuy, Yagan, Windradyne
Treatment and contribution of Indigenous
women
Frontier Wars and the surrounding debates.
Hardships and contributions
Influence on “Australian Identity”
Environmental impact of settlement
Effects of pastoral expansion.
Attitudes in Britain and colonies
Effect on colonial economies.
Discoveries of gold in the colonies
Impact of the Gold Rush on the colonies e.g.
political consciousness, Eureka Stockade,
infrastructure, demographics, racial tensions
Selection and bushranging
Influence on “Australian Identity”
Local History.
Australia :
Transition to
Nationhood (1.0)
Exclusivists versus Emancipists
Self- Government
Federation Movement
 Black Troopers
 Bigge report
 Legislative Council Acts 1823 and 1828
 Fight for representative government
 Factors leading to demand for self-government
end of Transportation debate
gold discoveries
population increase
 Growing sense of Australian Identity
 Australian Colonies Government Act 1850
 Self-government Acts 1855-1856
 Imperial Parliament Act 1885
 Factional interests
wealthy landowners/squatters
bourgeois.
Early movement 1840s
Free traders (New South Wales) and Protectionists
(Victoria)
Kanaka labour in Queensland
National Identity and consciousness 1880s onwards,
eg. The Australian Native Association
Boom time 1880s
Bust 1890s
great strikes
growth of trade unionism
 Enfranchisement
male suffrage
female suffrage
 Inter-colonial rivalry
 Federal Conference 1890
Commonwealth Governments
Bohemian Movements
Sydney or the Bush?
World War I
 Role of Henry Parkes
 Referendum campaign and results
 Impact of federation on Indigenous people
The Constitution
Federal/state division of powers
specific powers
residual powers
British interest
Role of Edward Barton
The Constitution
The Heidelberg Movement
Important nationalist writers
Development of The Bulletin
Development of theatre and songs
Development of radio and film
The Australian identity myth - sidelining
metropolitan areas
Case study - capital city and rural community
Comparison of Indigenous experiences in the city and
the bush
 Before 1914
Australia’s international relations
 Gallipoli
strategies of campaign
impact of “national identity” – “baptism of fire concept”
withdrawal - too soon or too late?
 Western Front
campaigns, with particular emphasis on the Battle of
the Somme
Weimar to Reich
Germany 19181945
(1.0)
Germany after World War I.
The New Republic
attitudes towards the Australian soldier
Monash
environmental destruction and impact of the war on the
landscape
 Home Front
Recruitment
attitudes towards aliens
war effort regulations
conscription- debate and campaign; impact on society
and role of women
growth of federal power
role of women
indigenous involvement
 Impacts of WWI on Australian nationhood
 Impact of Treaty of Versailles and “Stab in Back”
legend.
 Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
 German Revolution (Kiel Mutiny, abdication of
Kaiser, armistice).
 Ebert and SPD.
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The Republic 1923-1929
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Nature of constitutional democracy.
Structure of Weimar constitution and role of
political parties.
Challenges to Republic (Freikorps, Kapp Putsch and
Spartacist Uprising).
Occupation of Rhineland and passive
resistance.
Hyperinflation.
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The Nazi Party – Challenge to the Republic
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The Nazis Come to Power 1929 - 1933
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Gustav Stresemann and the new international
diplomacy.
Cultural life in Weimar.
Economic and political stability.
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Background of Hitler.
Features of NSDAP.
Hitler and Mein Kampf.
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Failure of German democracy.
The Great Depression.
The Fuhrer and the Movement: electoral
appeal.
Military support for Hitler.
Hitler as Chancellor.
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The Totalitarian State
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Meaning of totalitarianism and Nazism.
Reichstag fire.
Enabling Act.
Gleichshaltung (legal and constitutional
change).
Use of terror (Night of the Long Knives, role of
SA and SS, Gestapo).
Volksgemeinschaft (The Peoples’ Communityrole of women, Youth movements, religion,
cultural life, propaganda, KDF) .
Treatment of minorities.
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Anti-Semitism.
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The Jewish Community and Holocaust
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War and Defeat
Resistance to the Nazis
The Second world
war (1.0)
Europe between the Wars
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The Republic 1923-1929
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Nuremburg Laws.
Kristallnacht.
Holocaust and nature of genocide.
Concentration camps and role of
Einsatzgruppen.
Intentional or Functionalism?
Invasion of Poland, the Phoney War and the Fall
of France.
Operation Barbarossa – reasons and failure.
Final defeat.
War economy.
Bonhoeffer and other church opposition
The July Plot
The White Rose Movement.
Germany, Italy, Russia and Britain in 1920s and
1930s
The Impact of the Great Depression
Rise of dictators – Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler
The failure of democracy the Nazis and fascists
come to power
The Spanish civil War
Occupation of Rhineland and passive
resistance.
Hyperinflation.
Gustav Stresemann and the new international
diplomacy.
Cultural life in Weimar.
The Totalitarian State
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Economic and political stability.
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Meaning of totalitarianism and Nazism.
Reichstag fire.
Enabling Act.
Gleichshaltung (legal and constitutional
change).
Anti-semitism – Nuremburg Laws, use of terror
(Night of the Long Knives, role of SA and SS,
Gestapo).
Volksgemeinschaft (The Peoples’ Communityrole of women, Youth movements, religion,
cultural life, propaganda, KDF) .
concentration camps and role of Einsatzgruppen
Treatment of minorities – concentration camps
and role of Einsatzgruppen
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Nazi foreign policy (1933-1939)
Appeasement (France/Great Britain)
Germany after World War I.
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Rejection of Versailles, Lebensraum
Rearmament, Rhineland
Unification of German-speaking peoples
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Czech crisis and Munich
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact
Invasion of Poland
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Impact of Treaty of Versailles and “Stab in Back”
legend.
Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
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The New Republic
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The Republic 1923-1929
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The Nazis Come to Power 1929 - 1933
Nature of constitutional democracy.
Structure of Weimar constitution and role of
political parties.
Challenges to Republic (Freikorps, Kapp Putsch
and Spartacist Uprising).
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Occupation of Rhineland and passive
resistance.
Hyperinflation.
Gustav Stresemann and the new international
diplomacy.
Cultural life in Weimar.
Economic and political stability.
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Background of Hitler.
Features of NSDAP.
Hitler and Mein Kampf
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Failure of German democracy.
The Great Depression.
The Fuhrer and the Movement: electoral
appeal.
Military support for Hitler.
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The Nazi Party – Challenge to the Republic
German Revolution (Kiel Mutiny, abdication of
Kaiser, armistice).
Ebert and SPD.
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The Totalitarian State
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Hitler as Chancellor.
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Meaning of totalitarianism and Nazism.
Reichstag fire.
Enabling Act.
Gleichshaltung (legal and constitutional
change).
Use of terror (Night of the Long Knives, role of
SA and SS, Gestapo).
Volksgemeinschaft (The Peoples’ Communityrole of women, Youth movements, religion,
cultural life, propaganda, KDF) .
Treatment of minorities.
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The Jewish Community and Holocaust
Origins of War in the Pacific
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Anti-Semitism.
Nuremburg Laws.
Kristallnacht.
Holocaust and nature of genocide.
Concentration camps and role of
Einsatzgruppen
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rise of ultra-nationalism and militarism in Japan,
effects of the Great Depression
Japanese expansion and its implications
Military actions, 1931, 1937
Weaknesses of the League of Nations
Pearl Habour
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Course of the War
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Resistance to the Nazis
The Second world
war A (0.5)
See above
The Second World See above
War B
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war in Europe, Hitler’s five campaigns
The Battle of Britain, the Blitz
North African Campaigns
The Great patriotic war
War in the Pacific – policy of ‘defeat Germany
first’ and its effects in the Pacific
Fall of Singapore
The ‘turning points – Midway, el alamein,
Stalingrad
Australia’s role in the war – eg. Kokoda
Development in war technology
The Holocaust
Wartime conferences
Use of the atomic bombs
Effects of war – social change, Atlantic charter,
UNO
Bonhoeffer and other church opposition
The July Plot
The White Rose Movement.
(0.5)
The Second world See above
war
(1.0)
International
Relations 1870 To The Diplomatic Background to Great Power Rivalries
after 1870
1945 (double up
in content with war
in the modern
world)
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The Course of WWI
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The Western front and nature of war (attrition,
trench warfare)
Eastern Front
New weapons and allies
Impacts and outcomes of warfare on ground, at
sea and in the air
Reasons for stalemate/ attempts to break
stalemate
Reasons for allied victory
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Wilson’s 14 points
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The Paris Peace Conference
German unification and emerging German
nationalism
Bismarck and foreign policy objectives
Foreign policies of other Great Powers – Great
Britain, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy,
Turkey
The Alliance System
Militarism
New Imperialism
International Crises - 1904-1911
Assassination and July Crisis
Study area 2 1919-1945
Diplomatic Background in Interwar Period - 1919-1939
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The League of Nations
The Great Depression – Causes and Consequences
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Treaty of Versailles and outcomes
Question of German guilt
Wider consequences of war
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Europe post 1919 – impact of Versailles on
Europe, particularly Germany.
Economic problems in Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Formation
Aims
Successes and Failures
 Nazi Foreign Policy - 1933-1939
rejection of Versailles.
Lebensraum.
unification of German-speaking peoples.
 Appeasement (France/Great Britain)
Czech Crisis and Munich.
Polish Guarantees.
occupation of Poland.
 Japan – Interwar Period
rise of ultra-nationalism.
greater east Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
Pearl Harbour.
The Course of WWII
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War in Europe
War in the Pacific
New weapons and allies
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International
Relations 1945 To
Present
(1.0)
The Origins of the Cold War
Impacts and outcomes of warfare on ground, at
sea and in the air
 Reasons for allied victory
Significant factors of the 1920s/1930s and World War II
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
US Responses – Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy
“Iron Curtain” speech
Berlin Airlift and consolidation of Eastern Europe
Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Eisenhower and Cold War – Korea, Hungary, Sputnik,
CENTRO, U2 Incident, Suez Crisis, Space Race
Kennedy Administration – Vietnam, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Berlin Wall
USSR Responses – Stalin and Kruschev
in the interests of presenting a balanced historical
perspective it is suggested that these responses
be considered as well particularly as one of the
unit goals states Examine and interpret the various
historical explanations and viewpoints, as expressed
by historians, of international relations in the post
World War II era. . This also allows more scope for
comparative work.
Communist Victory in China
Korean War
Indo-Chinese Conflict (French and American
involvement)
Containment and Domino Theory
Cambodia
The Cold War in Asia
The Cold War to
1969 (0.5)
Attempts at Peace
Sino-Soviet split
Improving East-West relations
Arms control – Geneva Conference, test Ban treaty,
Non-Proliferation Treaty, SALT and START
Detente and US-Sino rapprochement
Czechoslovakia
Cold War in the Americas
Chile, Panama and Nicaragua.
The End of the Cold War
Mikhael Gorbachev
Glasnost/Perestroika
1989 and fall of Berlin Wall
Tiananmen Square
Lasting impacts and outcomes
The Origins of the Cold War
American responses – Truman, Eisenhower and
Kennedy
1920s/1930s and World War II.
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.
“Iron Curtain” speech.
Berlin Airlift and consolidation of Eastern Europe.
Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine.
NATO and Warsaw Pact.
Eisenhower and Cold war – Korea, Hungary, Sputnik,
CENTRO, U2 Incident, Suez Crisis, Space Race.
Kennedy Administration – Vietnam, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Berlin Wall.
Britain in the
Victorian Age
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The Sixties (1.0)
Attempts at Peace
Sino-Soviet split.
Improving East-West relations.
Arms control – Geneva Conference, test Ban treaty,
Non-Proliferation Treaty, SALT and START.
Detente and U.S-Sino rapprochement.
Czechoslovakia.
Content Areas
 The Great Exhibition 1851
 The Whitechapel Murders 1888
 Darwin - impact and influence on Victorian society
 Life/work of literary canons - Dickens, The Brontes,
Conan-Doyle, Tennyson
 Social change during the Victorian period
 Women in Victorian society – roles, images,
reactions
 Development of democracy and political change
during the Victorian period
 Exploration and the growth of the Empire - Burton ,
Speke, Livingstone
 The Crimean War - Florence Nightengale, The Charge of
the Light Brigade
Culture and Counter cultures
A study of each content area, study could include
an examination of:
entertainment and leisure
crime and punishment
work
morality
class structure
literature
art
sport
technology and scientific discovery
Were the 1960s a continuation of the 1950s or a paradigm shift?
Kennedy and Camelot
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The Beat Generation
Drug culture
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Robert Kennedy
The Great Society
The Freedom Rides – the US and Australia
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Black Panthers
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Student protests and sit ins
Protests in the US and Australia
Anti Traditionalism elsewhere
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The student riots of 1968 in France
The Prague Spring
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of
China
The Sexual Revolution and Women
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Betty Frieden
The Kinsey Report
Oral contraception
Equal pay in Australia
The Cultural Revolution
Who Owns the 60s?
Content Areas
 political institutions and issues
 foreign relations
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Music – from Rock to the Beatles
Civil Rights and Black Power
The New Left and Grassroots Movements of the Right
Vietnam and Protest
Contemporary
Australia (1.0)
Duplication
Contemporary
International
Issues,
The Cold War
The 1960s
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patterns of economic development
race relations and multiculturalism
Indigenous issues
responses to Vietnam
the women’s movement
environmental concerns and the development of minority
political groups
 Australia’s relationships with the USA and Asia
 global terrorism
 technological change
 the changing patterns of families
 labor relations
 work place practices
 visual and musical arts
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the emergence of youth cultures
Impacts of WW II on Australia
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The Menzies era 1949-66.
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The immediate post-war years 1945-1949
The aftermath of World War II
Political and economic issues during the Chifley
administration
Immigration policies
Patterns of economic development
Party political issues
Profiles of differing Australian lifestyles
Foreign relations, with particular emphasis on Cold
War issues and on Australia’s relationships with
Britain, the USA and the countries of Asia
The 1960s to the 1990s, a survey of recent Australian
history.
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The new Millennium
Political
Investigations
Content Areas
Democracy
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The growth of a multi-cultural society
Responses to Vietnam and changing relations
with Asia
Indigenous people in contemporary Australia,
examining issues such as land rights, the Mabo
and Wik judgements, and social concerns eg.
education, health/mortaltiy, intervention
Environmental and educational issues
Feminism and the changing roles of women,
examining particular groups and particular
women eg Greer, Lake, Cox, Tom and Arndt
Technological and social change and related
employment and leisure patterns
Youth culture
September 11th 2002
The global war on Terror
The Tampa / Children Overboard affair
Disbandment of ASTIC
The arts – visual, music, literature
Australia’s relationship with the Asia and the
USA
 The changing dynamics of the family / youth
culture
In each area, study could be guided by, but not
limited to, the following focus questions:
(1.0)
Nationalism
Religious fundamentalism
Republicanism
Liberalism
Marxism/Socialism
Anarchism
Monarchy
Liberation theology
Racism
Feminism
Politics of Growth and International Relations
Environmental Politics
What are the roles and functions purpose of
government?
Who should govern?
To what extent do religious values influence national
politics?
Should government be purely secular?
The evolutionary and changing nature of political
ideology
What do universal freedom and social justice mean
within the contexts of the ideology?