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Modern History Q&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every SA Modern History syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Historical Skills
Demonstrate the historical skills of source analysis and evaluation, considering origin, purpose, content, reliability, perspective and usefulness, and apply them to primary and secondary sources.
Demonstrate the skills of independent historical inquiry by framing a focused question, researching primary and secondary sources, evaluating evidence and interpretations, and presenting a sustained, referenced argument.
Modern Nations
Analyse the creation of the Australian nation at Federation, the search for national identity, the social and economic transformations of war and depression, and Australia's changing place in the world to 1956.
Analyse the establishment of the People's Republic, the consolidation of communist power, the social and economic transformations including the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, and their human cost to 1976.
Analyse the challenges to the Weimar Republic, the Nazi seizure and consolidation of power, life under the Third Reich, and the impact of war and defeat to 1948.
Analyse the Japanese occupation, the revolution and independence struggle, Sukarno's Guided Democracy, Suharto's New Order, and the transition to reform democracy in modern Indonesia to 2005.
Analyse the collapse of Tsarism, the 1917 revolutions, the Bolshevik consolidation of power, and Stalin's transformation of the Soviet Union to 1941.
Analyse the prosperity of the 1920s, the causes and impact of the Great Depression, the New Deal response, and the changing role of the federal government to 1941.
The World since 1945
Analyse the changing nature of Australia's engagement with Asia and the South Pacific since 1945, including defence, trade, migration and regional diplomacy.
Analyse the changing nature of threats to peace and security since 1945, including nuclear weapons, terrorism, ethnic conflict and the international responses to them.
Analyse the causes, processes and consequences of decolonisation and the emergence of independent nations in Asia and Africa after 1945.
Analyse the causes, course and outcomes of struggles for national self-determination in South-East Asia after 1945, including Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor.
Analyse the changing world order since 1945, including the rise of superpowers, the post-Cold-War unipolar moment, globalisation, terrorism and the emergence of new powers.
Analyse the origins, key crises, ideological conflict and eventual end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991.
Analyse the causes, course and attempts at resolution of conflict in the Middle East since 1945, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the search for peace.
Analyse the causes, methods, key figures and outcomes of movements for civil, political and human rights after 1945, including the African American civil rights movement and others.
Analyse the establishment, structure, role and effectiveness of the United Nations in pursuing collective security, peacekeeping and global cooperation since 1945.