MODERN HISTORYHSC COURSE 2014-15

Term four 2014 HSC CORES STUDY: WORLD WAR 11914-1919(a source-based study)

The following aspects of WWI are studied through a variety of sources War on the Western Front The home fronts of Britain and Germany Turning Points – entry of the USA and Russian withdrawal Allied Victory

Term One 2015Topic Two: National StudyTwentieth Century Germany

Germany 1919 - 1939 Weimar period post WWI Rise of Hitler and the Nazi party Nazi policies 1933-1939

Personalities of the 20th CenturyStudyLeni Riefenstahl – Hitler’s film maker

Propagandist, opportunist, or victim of her time?

Topic 4: International Studies in Peace and ConflictConflict in Indochina 1954-1979

Indochina after the French The USA and Indochina The second Indochina War (Vietnam

1962-75) Pol Pot’s Regime in Cambodia