Modern History flashcards

What this deck covers

• Unit 1: Ideas in the modern world (63 cards, 13 dot points)

  • Anti-colonial and independence movements (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Cold War ideologies, 1945-1991 (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Fascism and totalitarianism (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Feminism and environmentalism (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Globalisation and late modernity (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Imperialism and colonialism (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Liberalism as a modern political idea (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • Methods of historical inquiry: QCE Modern History Unit 1 Year 11 (4)
  • Nationalism and liberalism: QCE Modern History Unit 1 Year 11 (4)
  • Revolutions and political change: QCE Modern History Unit 1 Year 11 (5)
  • Socialism and Marxism (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • The Enlightenment and the origins of modernity (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
  • The Industrial Revolution and modernity (QCE Modern History Unit 1) (5)
• Unit 2: Movements in the modern world (58 cards, 13 dot points)

  • 20th-century independence and nationalist movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • Anti-war and counterculture movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • Australian Indigenous rights movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • Causation and change in historical inquiry: QCE Modern History Unit 2 Year 11 (4)
  • Environmental movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • Labour and trade union movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • LGBTQ rights movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • Movements for rights: QCE Modern History Unit 2 Year 11 (4)
  • Peace and anti-nuclear movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (4)
  • The anti-apartheid movement, 1948-1994 (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
  • The global human rights movement after 1945 (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (4)
  • The postwar world order: QCE Modern History Unit 2 Year 11 (2)
  • The US Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (QCE Modern History Unit 2) (5)
• Unit 3: National experiences in the Modern World (46 cards, 12 dot points)

  • Australia and World War II: the Pacific turn, Curtin's appeal to America and total home front mobilisation (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • Causes of Australian involvement in World War I: imperial loyalty, politics and the 1914 social order (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • Federation and the early Commonwealth, 1901 to 1914 (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (4)
  • Hawke, Keating, economic reform and the republic debate, 1983 to 1999 (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (4)
  • Indigenous Australians: policy and rights since 1901 (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (4)
  • Interwar Australia 1918 to 1939: post-war settlement, the Great Depression and the Premiers' Plan (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • Post-war Australia 1945 to 1949: Chifley, reconstruction, mass migration and the early Cold War (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • The Australian experience of World War I: Gallipoli, the Western Front, the home front and the Anzac legend (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • The conscription debates of 1916 and 1917: Hughes, Mannix and the split of the Labor Party (QCE Modern History Unit 3) (4)
  • The Menzies era, the Cold War and Vietnam, 1949 to 1972 (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (2)
  • The White Australia policy and its dismantling, 1901 to the 1980s (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (4)
  • The Whitlam government and the Dismissal, 1972 to 1975 (QCE Modern History Unit 3, Australia since 1901) (4)
• Unit 4: International experiences in the Modern World (The Cold War 1945 to 1991) (34 cards, 8 dot points)

  • Detente 1969 to 1979: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)
  • Nature and historiography of the Cold War: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)
  • Origins of the Cold War 1945 to 1949: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (5)
  • The Cold War in Europe 1948 to 1962: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (5)
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)
  • The end of the Cold War 1985 to 1991: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)
  • The Korean War 1950 to 1953: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)
  • The Vietnam War 1955 to 1975: QCE Modern History Unit 4 (4)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Anti-colonial and independence movements (QCE Modern History Unit 1)

   Define The First World War

   Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918) and the principle of self-determination raised colonial expectations. The Versailles Treaty (1919) applied self-determination only to European peoples; this disillusioned Asian and African nationalists. The Indian National Congress radicalised after Amritsar (April 1919).

2. Definition

   The anti-apartheid movement, 1948-1994 (QCE Modern History Unit 2)

   Define Defiance Campaign (1952)

   ANC and South African Indian Congress encouraged mass civil disobedience. Approximately $8\,000$ arrests.

3. Definition

   Australia and World War II: the Pacific turn, Curtin's appeal to America and total home front mobilisation (QCE Modern History Unit 3)

   Define Greece and Crete

   The 6th Division was deployed to Greece in March 1941 and forced into evacuation by the German advance. Crete fell to a German airborne attack in May 1941, with the loss of about 3,000 Australian prisoners.

4. Definition

   The Cold War in Europe 1948 to 1962: QCE Modern History Unit 4

   Define Comecon (1949)

   Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Economic counterpart to the Marshall Plan, integrating Eastern European economies with the USSR.

5. Definition

   Cold War ideologies, 1945-1991 (QCE Modern History Unit 1)

   Define The Eastern bloc

   State-owned economies, one-party communist rule, restrictions on political freedom and emigration. Anchored by the USSR and the Warsaw Pact (founded 1955). Included Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania (until 1968). Communist China was independently aligned after the 1960s Sino-Soviet split.

6. Definition

   Anti-war and counterculture movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2)

   Define Origins (1964-1965)

   Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964) on the right of students to engage in political activity on campus. Teach-ins (1965). Sustained anti-war organising as US troop levels rose from $200\,000$ (end 1965) to peak of $543\,000$ (1969).

7. Definition

   The Australian experience of World War I: Gallipoli, the Western Front, the home front and the Anzac legend (QCE Modern History Unit 3)

   Define Fromelles, July 1916

   A diversionary attack with no strategic gain. Of the 5,533 AIF casualties in 24 hours, about 1,900 were killed. The worst single day in Australian military history.

8. Definition

   The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962: QCE Modern History Unit 4

   Define Bay of Pigs invasion (April 17-19, 1961)

   A CIA-organised invasion by Cuban exiles failed catastrophically within three days. The attempt damaged US credibility and drove Castro to seek Soviet protection. Within 6 months, Cuba was a Soviet client.

9. Definition

   Fascism and totalitarianism (QCE Modern History Unit 1)

   Define Anti-liberalism

   Rejection of individual rights, parliamentary politics, free press, free markets.

10. Definition

    Causation and change in historical inquiry: QCE Modern History Unit 2 Year 11

    Define Contingent vs structural

    Contingent: depended on specific decisions or events that could have gone differently (the assassin's bullet hitting; a particular leader's choice).