WACE Modern History past exams 2020–2025, by year and topic

Historical skills (Units 3 and 4) · 10 mapped questions

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.

• Unit 3, Elective 1 — Australia 1918–1949 — 1918–1929: returned soldiers, Soldier Settlement, the Country Party and 'Men, money, markets' · The Great Depression and the 1931 Labor Split · Foreign policy 1918–39: Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations, the 1926 Imperial Conference and relations with Japan · World War II, the home front and Chifley's post-war reconstruction to the 1949 election · Experiences of women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• Unit 3, Elective 2 — Russia and the Soviet Union 1914–1945 — 1914 conditions, World War I and the February and October Revolutions of 1917 · The Civil War, Brest-Litovsk, the Red Terror and the creation of the USSR · Stalin's rise to power to 1929 · War Communism, the NEP, the Great Turn and collectivisation · Stalinist control, the Purges, the Great Terror and victory in the Great Patriotic War
• Unit 3, Elective 3 — China 1945–1989 — The GMD–CCP conflict and the 1949 change of regime · Building the communist state 1949–57, the Hundred Flowers and the Anti-Rightist Movement · The Great Leap Forward 1958–61 · The Cultural Revolution 1966–76 · China's international relations 1949–78, the Gang of Four, and Deng's reforms to Tiananmen 1989
• Unit 4, Elective 1 — The changing European world since 1945 — Origins of the Cold War: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade · The Cold War in Europe 1949–91: the arms race, Hungary 1956, the Berlin Wall, the Prague Spring and détente · The new Cold War, glasnost and perestroika, and the collapse of the Communist Bloc 1989–91 · German reunification, the break-up of Yugoslavia, and the EU and Eurozone
• Unit 4, Elective 2 — Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945 — The war with Japan, decolonisation and forward defence through Korea, Malaya and Vietnam · The Colombo Plan, ANZUS, SEATO, ASEAN and APEC · Peacekeeping in post-war Japan, Cambodia and East Timor/Timor-Leste · From the White Australia Policy to multiculturalism, and trade with Asia
• Unit 4, Elective 3 — The struggle for peace in the Middle East since 1945 — The establishment of Israel 1945–48 and the Arab–Israeli wars of 1948–73 · Lebanon, the Intifadas, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran–Iraq War and the First Gulf War · The peace process: the 1949 Armistice, Resolution 242, Camp David, the 1979 treaty and Oslo