WACE Modern History Year 12 Notes

These are the 20 revision notes inside the WACE Modern History Mastery Pack. Open any note to see what it covers before you buy.

1. Section One technique: origin and message, context and purpose, reliability, usefulness and representations across three sources3 · Historical skills (all Unit 3 electives)

   Source analysis

2. Australia in 1918 and the 1920s: returned soldiers, Soldier Settlement, Country Party, 'Men, money, markets' and unionism3 · Elective 1: Australia 1918–1949

   1918–1930s

3. The Great Depression, the 1931 Labor Split and foreign policy 1918–39 (Paris 1919, League, 1926 Imperial Conference, Statute of Westminster, Japan)3 · Elective 1: Australia 1918–1949

   Depression and foreign policy

4. World War II and the home front, Chifley's reconstruction, the 1949 election, women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences and ideas3 · Elective 1: Australia 1918–1949

   War, reconstruction and ideas

5. Russia in 1914, World War I, Nicholas II and the February and October Revolutions of 19173 · Elective 2: Russia and the Soviet Union 1914–1945

   Revolution

6. Civil War, Brest-Litovsk, the Red Terror, Trotsky, the creation of the USSR and Stalin's rise to 19293 · Elective 2: Russia and the Soviet Union 1914–1945

   Civil War and succession

7. War Communism, NEP, the Great Turn, social impact, Stalinist control and victory in the Great Patriotic War3 · Elective 2: Russia and the Soviet Union 1914–1945

   Stalinist USSR

8. China in 1945, the GMD–CCP conflict, Mao and Jiang, and the 1949 change of regime3 · Elective 3: China 1945–1989

   Civil war to 1949

9. Building the communist state 1949–66, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution 1966–763 · Elective 3: China 1945–1989

   Maoist state

10. International relations 1949–78, Mao's death and the Gang of Four, Deng's reforms, Democracy Wall and Tiananmen 19893 · Elective 3: China 1945–1989

    Foreign relations and Deng

11. Sections Two and Four technique: proposition, narrative, argument, evidence, interpretations and conclusion under the 30-mark key4 · Historical skills (Units 3 and 4)

    Explanation essays

12. Ideology, the Communist Bloc, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade to 19494 · Elective 1: The changing European world since 1945

    Origins of the Cold War

13. Arms race, Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall, Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine, détente and the new Cold War4 · Elective 1: The changing European world since 1945

    Cold War in Europe 1949–91

14. Collapse of the Communist Bloc, Soviet break-up, German reunification, Yugoslavia and the EU/Eurozone; leaders and ideas4 · Elective 1: The changing European world since 1945

    End of the Cold War

15. Australia and Asia to 1949, forward defence and Menzies: China 1949, Korea, the Malayan Emergency and Vietnam4 · Elective 2: Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945

    Forward defence

16. Colombo Plan, ANZUS, SEATO, ASEAN, APEC and peacekeeping in post-war Japan, Cambodia and East Timor/Timor-Leste4 · Elective 2: Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945

    Alliances and peacekeeping

17. From White Australia to multiculturalism, Asian refugees and immigration debates, trade with Asia and domestic political impacts4 · Elective 2: Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945

    Multiculturalism and trade

18. The establishment of Israel 1945–48 and the Arab–Israeli wars of 1948–49, 1956, 1967 and 19734 · Elective 3: The struggle for peace in the Middle East since 1945

    Israel and the wars

19. Lebanon, the Intifadas, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran–Iraq War, the First Gulf War and US, British and Soviet involvement4 · Elective 3: The struggle for peace in the Middle East since 1945

    Wider conflicts

20. Armistice 1949, Resolution 242, Camp David 1978, the 1979 treaty, Oslo, Camp David 2000, the UN, key individuals and ideas4 · Elective 3: The struggle for peace in the Middle East since 1945

    Peace process