Modern History flashcards

622 HSC Modern History cards across 12 modules (223 definitions, 285 key facts, 114 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Section III (Peace and Conflict): The Cold War 1945-1991 (29 cards, 14 dot points)
Section III (Peace and Conflict): Conflict in the Gulf 1980-2011 (80 cards, 16 dot points)
Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946 (46 cards, 11 dot points)
Section III (Peace and Conflict): Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979 (70 cards, 14 dot points)
Section II (National Study): China 1927-1949 (65 cards, 13 dot points)
Former syllabus National Study: Germany 1918-1939 (39 cards, 8 dot points)
Section II (National Study): Indonesia 1945-2005 (65 cards, 13 dot points)
Section III (Peace and Conflict): Conflict in Europe 1935-1945 (30 cards, 6 dot points)
Section III (Personalities): Albert Speer, Hitler's Architect and Minister of Armaments (27 cards, 6 dot points)
Section III (Personalities): Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary and Theorist of Permanent Revolution (26 cards, 13 dot points)
Section III (Personalities): Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China (70 cards, 14 dot points)
Section II (National Study): USA 1919-1941 (75 cards, 15 dot points)

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Fill the gap
Collapse of the USSR 1991: HSC Modern History Cold War
Against this, the ___ position - Stephen Kotkin (Armageddon Averted, 2001) - holds the collapse was uncoerced and internally generated, with Reagan largely peripheral; the system imploded under its own contradictions.
Against this, the revisionist position - Stephen Kotkin (Armageddon Averted, 2001) - holds the collapse was uncoerced and internally generated, with Reagan largely peripheral; the system imploded under its own contradictions.
Definition
2003 Iraq War, invasion and fall of Baghdad: HSC Modern History Conflict in the Gulf
Define CPA Order Number 1 (16 May 2003), De-Baathification
Excluded the top four ranks of the Baath Party (around 30,000 senior members) from any government, military, or educational position. Removed the country's professional class.
Definition
Appeasement and the road to war: HSC Modern History Core Study
Define Donald Cameron Watt
Donald Cameron Watt (How War Came, 1989) presents a granular diplomatic account that complicates Taylor without rejecting his core insight that decisions in 1939 were contingent.
Definition
Anti-war movement and media: HSC Modern History Indochina
Define Daniel Hallin
Daniel Hallin (The "Uncensored War", 1986) is the decisive critique: his study of network coverage shows reporting was overwhelmingly supportive until the Tet Offensive, and turned critical only once the political and military elite themselves divided. On this view the media followed opinion rather than leading it - a direct rebuttal of Elegant.
Definition
The Chinese Civil War 1945-1949: HSC Modern History National Study China
Define Huaihai Campaign (6 November 1948 to 10 January 1949)
The largest single campaign of the war. The Eastern China Field Army (Chen Yi) and the Central Plains Field Army (Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping) totalled around 600,000. KMT forces under Du Yuming and Liu Zhi numbered around 800,000, including five elite armies. Civilian labour brigades brought PLA supplies; KMT logistics seized up. The campaign destroyed five KMT armies. Around 555,000 KMT troops were killed, wounded, captured, or defected. The road to Nanjing was open.
Definition
The collapse of Weimar 1929-1933: HSC Modern History (former National Study)
Define Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw (Hitler: Hubris, 1998) is the modern consensus: Hitler did not seize power; conservative elites under Papen handed him the Chancellorship in the belief they could control him.
Definition
1965 Coup Attempt and Anti-Communist Massacres in Indonesia: HSC Modern History
Define Geoffrey Robinson
Geoffrey Robinson (The Killing Season, 2018) treats the killings as state-organised mass murder: army units identified targets, supplied weapons to militias, trained them, and exercised operational control. The decentralised appearance of the killings was deliberate.
Definition
Course of the European war 1939-1941: HSC Modern History Peace and Conflict
Define Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor (The Second World War, 2012; Stalingrad, 1998) is the modern operational and human standard.
Definition
Speer and the Final Solution: HSC Modern History Personality
Define Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny (Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, 1995) treats the lifelong denial as the central biographical fact. Her conversations with Speer in old age recorded private admissions never made publicly.
Fill the gap
Trotsky's exile and writings: HSC Modern History Personality
The Turkish government granted asylum on condition of residence on Prinkipo (now Buyukada), an island in the Sea of Marmara some ___ from Constantinople.
The Turkish government granted asylum on condition of residence on Prinkipo (now Buyukada), an island in the Sea of Marmara some 20 km from Constantinople.