Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World Modern History
This unit examines developments of significance in the modern era, including the ideas that inspired them and their far-reaching consequences. Students examine TWO topics, including at least ONE study of a development or turning point that has helped …
Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10 Modern History
The Modern History curriculum continues to develop student learning in history through the same strands used in the Foundation to Year 10 history curriculum, although in the historical knowledge and understanding strand in Years 9-10, there is a focus …
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Modern History
The seven general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding are identified where …
Representation of General capabilities | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Modern History
Rationale The Modern History curriculum enables students to study the forces that have shaped today’s world and provides them with a broader and deeper comprehension of the world in which they live. While the focus is on the 20th century, the curriculum …
Rationale/Aims | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century Modern History
This unit examines significant movements for change in the 20th century that led to change in society, including people’s attitudes and circumstances. These movements draw on the major ideas described in Unit 1, have been closely connected with democratic …
Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century Modern History
This unit examines the characteristics of modern nations in the 20th century; the crises that confronted nations, their responses to these crises and the different paths nations have taken to fulfil their goals. Students study the characteristics of TWO …
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Modern History Modern History
Units In Modern History, students study the forces that have shaped the modern world and develop a broader and deeper comprehension of the world in which they live. The Modern History curriculum consists of four units. For each unit there are five to …
Structure of Modern History | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 Modern History
This unit examines some significant and distinctive features of the modern world within the period 1945 – 2010, in order to build students’ understanding of the contemporary world - that is, why we are here at this point in time. These include changes …
Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH143
Japan’s first invasion of Manchuria in 1931 for political, military and social reasons
ACHMH143 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH201
An overview, as background information, of economic and social conditions in 1945-46, including social displacement and austerity in Europe, Australia and other parts of the world following World War II
ACHMH201 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH074
The economic, political and social challenges and opportunities Indigenous peoples have faced, including the role of cultural activity in developing awareness in society
ACHMH074 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH202
The background to, and the key features of, post-war capitalism and communism as competing economic and social systems in the 1950s
ACHMH202 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH207
The economic and social impact of global popular culture and technology advances on Australian society in the period 1990-2010
ACHMH207 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH019
The significant changes that occurred as a result of the Enlightenment, for example: movements for social and political reform; the rise of enlightened monarchies; increased interest in technological change; and belief in equal rights
ACHMH019 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH031
The significant changes that occurred during the French Revolution, including the overturning of the ‘ancien regime’, changes to the social structure of France, foreign policy and the revolutionary wars
ACHMH031 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH066
The post-war economic and technological improvements that changed women’s lives, for example new technologies in the home, the rise of consumerism and social networking
ACHMH066 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH096
The post-war economic boom and the increase in the wage standards of workers’ in the West in the second half of the 20th century; and increased opportunities including education, training and social mobility
ACHMH096 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH125
The key features of post-war reconstruction, including industrialisation, immigration, the provision of social welfare, and attitudes and policies towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and women
ACHMH125 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH126
The impact of the rise of communism, its influence on the election of Robert Menzies and the Coalition in 1949, and the contrasting economic and social policies offered at the 1949 election
ACHMH126 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHMH203
The emergence of regional blocs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the EEC (European Economic Community) and the Soviet bloc and their contribution to the economic and social well-being of member countries
ACHMH203 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum