Modern History syllabus, dot point by dot point
Every dot point in the TAS Modern History course document, in syllabus order, with a focused answer for each. Open any dot point for the answer, exam-style questions and links to related points.
Modern Asian Nations
Section overview →How did China move from civil war and revolution to communist rule and reform between 1931 and 1984?
How did India move from anti-colonial struggle to independence, partition and democratic nationhood between 1930 and 1984?
How did Japan move from militarism and war to defeat, democracy and economic superpower status between 1931 and 1984?
Modern Nations
Section overview →How did the Nazis turn Germany into a totalitarian state and reshape society between 1933 and 1939?
How did Australia change politically, economically and socially between the end of the First World War and the election of the Menzies government in 1949?
Why did Weimar democracy collapse and how did the Nazi state take total power between 1918 and 1945?
How prosperous and modern was the United States during the 1920s, and for whom?
Why did two revolutions destroy tsarism and bring the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917?
How did the United States move from prosperity to depression to global power between 1917 and 1945?
What caused the Great Depression in the United States and how far did the New Deal solve it?
How did Stalin transform the Soviet Union through collectivisation, industrialisation and terror between 1928 and 1953?
Why did the Weimar Republic fail to establish stable democracy in Germany between 1918 and 1933?
How did revolution transform Russia from tsarist autocracy into Stalin's totalitarian Soviet state between 1914 and 1945?
The World since 1945
Section overview →How did movements for civil rights and the idea of universal human rights develop after 1945?
Why did the European empires collapse after 1945 and how did newly independent nations emerge?
What caused the Cold War and how did the superpower rivalry develop and end between 1945 and 1991?