Modern History flashcards

28 WACE Modern History cards across 3 modules (0 definitions, 28 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

Historical Skills: Source Analysis and Historiography (3 cards, 3 dot points)
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th Century (13 cards, 13 dot points)
Unit 4: The Modern World since 1945 (12 cards, 12 dot points)

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Key fact
Constructing historical arguments and essays: WACE Modern History
Tell me about Argument, not narrative
The single most important distinction in Modern History essays is between narrating events and arguing a case. Narrative tells the story of what happened; argument explains why, how or how far, and defends a position with evidence.
Key fact
Australia 1918 to 1949: WACE Year 12 Modern History
Tell me about The pivot to the United States
After Singapore fell to Japan in February 1942, Prime Minister John Curtin had already declared in December 1941 that Australia looked to America "free of any pangs as to our traditional links with the United Kingdom".
Key fact
Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945: WACE Modern History
Tell me about The end of White Australia
The dismantling of the White Australia Policy was decisive for engagement with Asia. Eased through the 1950s and 1960s and formally ended by the Whitlam government in 1973 with the adoption of non-discriminatory immigration, this change allowed substantial Asian immigration.
Key fact
Historiography and historical interpretation: WACE Modern History
Tell me about Schools of interpretation
Most Modern History topics have recognised "schools" of interpretation worth knowing. The Cold War divides into orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist schools.
Key fact
China 1900 to 1949: WACE Year 12 Modern History
Tell me about The Long March
The Long March of 1934 to 1935, a retreat of around 9,000 kilometres from the encircled Jiangxi Soviet to Yan'an in the north, became the founding legend of Chinese Communism.
Key fact
Civil Rights and Human Rights since 1945: WACE Year 12 Modern History
Tell me about Non-violent direct action
The movement's distinctive method was disciplined non-violent direct action, boycotts, sit-ins, marches and freedom rides, designed to provoke a confrontation that exposed the violence of segregation to a national television audience and pressured the federal government to act.
Key fact
Source analysis and evaluation: WACE Modern History
Tell me about Origin, purpose, perspective
The core of source analysis is the trio of origin, purpose and perspective. Origin is who, when and what kind of source.
Key fact
Germany 1918 to 1945: WACE Year 12 Modern History
Tell me about The legal route to power
Hitler did not seize power by coup. President Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor on 30 January 1933 in a backroom deal engineered by Franz von Papen, who believed the conservatives could control him.
Key fact
Decolonisation in Asia and Africa: WACE Year 12 Modern History
Tell me about India set the pattern
India's independence in 1947 was the pivotal event. The largest British colony, won mainly through mass non-violent campaigns led by the Indian National Congress, its independence showed empire was no longer sustainable and inspired movements across Asia and Africa.
Key fact
Ideology and the rise of dictatorship: WACE Modern History
Tell me about Ideology plus crisis plus organisation
No ideology produced a dictatorship on its own. The pattern across the electives combines three ingredients: a compelling ideology, a profound crisis (defeat, depression or revolution) that discredited the existing order, and a disciplined organisation, the party, able to exploit the crisis.