Modern History HSC Syllabus

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Stage 6 Preliminary Course Content:

• Investigating Modern History
  • The Nature of Modern History
  • Case Studies
• Historical Investigation 20
• The Shaping of the Modern World

Stage 6 HSC Course Content:

• Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946 30
• National Studies
• Peace and Conflict
• Change in the Modern World

Required to Study Topics

• National Studies China 1927–1949
  • India 1942–1984
  • Indonesia 1945–2005
  • Japan 1904–1937
  • Iran 1945–1989
• Peace and Conflict
  • Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979
  • Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951
  • Conflict in the Gulf 1980–2011
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948–1996
• Change in the Modern World
  • Pro-democracy Movement in Burma 1945–2010
  • The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square 1966–1989
  • Apartheid in South Africa 1960–1994