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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

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

Rationale/Aims Ancient History

Rationale The Ancient History curriculum enables students to study life in early civilisations based on the analysis and interpretation of physical and written remains. The ancient period, as defined in this curriculum, extends from the development of …

Rationale/Aims | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum

Links to Foundation to Year 10 Ancient History

The Ancient History curriculum continues to develop student learning in history through the same strands used in the Foundation to Year 10 history curriculum, although the historical knowledge and understanding strand includes a wider range of concepts …

Links to Foundation to Year 10 | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum

Representation of General capabilities Ancient 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 | Ancient 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

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

ACHAH269

The location, main features and layout of Thebes, including its origins, the significance of the Nile, and the division between the East and West Bank

ACHAH275

The development of the East Bank of Thebes, including the temples of Karnak and Luxor, shrines, statues, stelae, papyri, inscriptions, paintings and other artefacts

ACHMH221

The consequences of the involvement of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in the Middle East over the period, in both the continuing conflict and the peace process

ACHAH234

Stability and prosperity in the state of Wu under Sun Quan, including conquest and colonisation in south China, and economic development including trade with South-East Asia

ACHMH205

The global significance of the economic recession of the 1970s for western capitalist economies, including the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the OPEC Middle East Oil Crisis (1973)

ACHAH274

The effectiveness of the protection and conservation of the Theban sites, for example the contribution of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of Chicago (East Bank), the Theban Mapping Project (West Bank), and the Macquarie Theban Tombs P …

ACHMH162

The nature and significance of the 1965 coup, including the mass killings 1965-1966; the rise to power of Suharto and the army, the transmigration program and conflicts between settlers and Indigenous populations; pro-democracy movements; and the reasons …

ACHMH212

Displacement arising from conflict and persecution (1945 -1975) for example Communist regimes in Europe (Hungarian uprising 1956), conflicts in the Middle East (Israeli military interventions in Lebanon)

ACHMH218

Reasons for, and consequences of, other conflicts in the Middle East, for example the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the Iran/Iraq War (1980-1988), Iranian Revolution (1979) and the Gulf Wars I (1990–1991) and II (2003)

ACHMH225

The role and outcomes of the United Nations as peacekeeper in specific conflicts and disputes, for example Korea 1954-1955, the former Yugoslavia after 1989; Rwanda (1993-96); Cambodia up to the first elections in 1993; and East Timor/Timor-Leste (19 …

ACHMH144

Japan during World War II, including the extent and nature of Japanese imperial expansion in Asia and the Pacific; the formation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; the external threats to Japan, including tension with the USA over trade before …

ACHAH336

The significance of the Sicilian Expedition as a turning point in the war, including key events for example the Mutilation of the Hermae, battles between the Athenians and the Syracusans; and key individuals for example Nicias, Alcibiades and Gylippu …

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