Modern History flashcards

16 TCE Modern History cards across 3 modules (0 definitions, 16 key facts, 0 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

Modern Asian Nations (3 cards, 3 dot points)
Modern Nations (10 cards, 10 dot points)
The World since 1945 (3 cards, 3 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Key fact
China 1931-1984 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about The communist victory of 1949
After Japan's defeat in 1945 the civil war resumed. The Communists, with peasant support, disciplined armies and Nationalist corruption and inflation working in their favour, won decisively.
Key fact
Australia 1918-1945 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about The 1920s: prosperity, protection and loyalty
The 1920s were shaped by the slogan "men, money and markets". Stanley Bruce, prime minister from 1923 to 1929, promoted British migration, foreign loans and protective tariffs, and tied Australia closely to Britain and Empire.
Key fact
Civil Rights and Human Rights - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about The high tide of the movement
Mass campaigns peaked in the early 1960s: the student sit-ins from 1960, the Freedom Rides of 1961 challenging segregated travel, the Birmingham campaign of 1963, and the March on Washington in August 1963, where King delivered his famous speech calling for racial equality.
Key fact
India 1930-1984 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about Independence and Partition, 1947
Weakened by the Second World War and facing irresistible nationalist pressure, Britain withdrew. In August 1947 British India became independent but was partitioned into two states, secular-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Key fact
Germany 1918-1945 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about Stresemann and the golden years
Gustav Stresemann, as Chancellor and then Foreign Minister (1923-1929), stabilised the currency with the Rentenmark, negotiated the Dawes Plan (1924) for American loans, secured the Locarno Treaties (1925) and brought Germany into the League of Nations (1926).
Key fact
Decolonisation and Independence - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about India: the first great breakthrough
British India became independent in August 1947 after decades of campaigning by the Indian National Congress and figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, who used non-violent resistance, and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Key fact
Japan 1931-1984 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about Expansion, war and defeat
Japan launched full-scale war on China in 1937, marked by atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre. Seeking resources and dominance in a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, bringing the United States into the Second World War.
Key fact
The Nazi Dictatorship 1933-1939 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about The terror and propaganda state
Two pillars held the regime together. Heinrich Himmler built the SS, the Gestapo and the concentration camp system, beginning with Dachau in 1933, to crush opposition.
Key fact
The Cold War 1945-1991 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about A war without direct fighting
The superpowers never fought each other directly. Instead the Cold War was waged through proxy wars, alliances, propaganda, espionage and a nuclear arms race governed by the logic of mutually assured destruction, in which both sides could annihilate the other.
Key fact
Russia and the Soviet Union 1914-1945 - TCE Modern History (Tasmania)
Tell me about War Communism and the Civil War
To survive the Civil War (1918-1921) against the White armies and foreign intervention, the Bolsheviks imposed War Communism (grain requisitioning, nationalisation) and used the Cheka secret police for Red Terror. The Reds won through control of the centre, railways and Trotsky's Red Army.