SACE Modern History past exams 2023–2025, by year and topic

The rest of the syllabus

Question-level mapping for these areas is still being verified. Every official paper covering them is in the year table above.

• Modern Nations: Germany (1918–48) — the liberal experiment — Defeat in 1918, revolution and the Weimar constitution · Versailles, reparations, the Ruhr occupation and hyperinflation of 1923 · Political threats from left and right and republican responses, 1919–23 · Stresemann-era recovery, culture and modernity, and the limits of stabilisation, 1924–29
• Modern Nations: Germany (1918–48) — creation and consolidation of a dictatorship — The Great Depression, presidential government and Hitler's appointment · Reichstag Fire Decree, Enabling Act, Gleichschaltung and the Night of the Long Knives · Propaganda, coercion, consent and everyday life under the dictatorship · Women, youth, churches, minorities and institutionalised anti-Semitism
• Modern Nations: Germany (1918–48) — war and defeat — Total war, radicalised terror and the Holocaust · Resistance inside Germany and its limits · Defeat, occupation zones, denazification and emerging division to 1948
• The world since 1945: The changing world order (1945– ) — Origins of superpower rivalry and post-war settlements, 1945–48 · Containment, alliances, divided Europe and nuclear rivalry · Cold War conflict, decolonisation, culture, technology and dissent · Reform movements, 1989–91 and the end of the Cold War · Reunification, European integration, Yugoslavia, emerging China and new nationalisms
• Historical inquiry skills (Section 2: Sources analysis) — Origin, nature, purpose and audience of primary and secondary sources · Drawing supported conclusions and comparing the extent to which sources agree · Assessing strengths and limitations for a historian's inquiry · Evaluating a statement with reference to a whole source set