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HSC Modern History Tutoring

 

HSC Modern History course at Wisdom Education will assist students to gain critical thinking skills to solve complex problems in your exams.

 

As dictated by the Board of Studies, the Syllabus break down is as follows:

 

  • Part I: Core Study: World War I 1914–1919: A Source-based Study 25% of course time

  • Part II: ONE National Study 25% of course time

  • Part III: ONE Personality in the Twentieth Century 25% of course time

  • Part IV: ONE International Study in Peace and Conflict 25% of course time 

 

The objectives of this syllabus are addressed through eight topics:

 

TERM 4 / 2015

  • Part I: Core Study: World War I 1914–1919: A Source-based Study 

    • Students will learn about Australia and World War I, including the reasons for Australia’s involvement; the places where Australians fought; the experiences of Australians at Gallipoli; how and why the Anzac legend was created; the conscription debate in Australia; experiences of one group in Australia during World War I and the ways that Australia has commemorated World War I over time. 

 

TERM 1 / 2016

  • Part II: National Studies

  • Students investigate key features and issues in the history of ONE country during a specific period of the twentieth century. 

    • A Australia 1945–1983 

    • B China 1927–1949 

    • C Germany 1918–1939 

    • D India 1919–1947 

    • E Indonesia 1959–1998 

    • F Japan 1904–1937 

    • G Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1941 

    • H South Africa 1960–1994 

    • I USA 1919–1941 

 

TERM 2 / 2016 

  • Part III: Personalities in the Twentieth Century. 

  • Students will undertake study of ONE personality from those listed.

    • 1 Yasser Arafat 1929 to 2000

    • 2 Joseph Benedict Chifley 1885–1951 

    • 3 Herbert Evatt 1894–1965 

    • 4 Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 to 2000 

    • 5 Emperor Hirohito 1901–1989 

    • 6 Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969 

    • 7 Kita Ikki 1883–1937 

    • 8 William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951 

    • 9 J Edgar Hoover 1895–1972 

    • 10 Mohammed Ali Jinnah 1876–1948 

    • 11 Alexandra Kollontai 1873–1952 

    • 12 Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 

    • 13 Nelson Mandela 1918 to 2000 

    • 14 Golda Meir 1898–1978 

    • 15 Robert Gordon Menzies 1894–1978 

    • 16 Bernard Law Montgomery 1887–1976 

    • 17 Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 

    • 18 Ian Paisley 1926 to 2000 

    • 19 Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003 

    • 20 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962 

    • 21 Albert Speer 1905–1981 

    • 22 Achmad Sukarno 1901–1970 

    • 23 Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) 1866–1925 

    • 24 Leon Trotsky 1879–1940 

    • 25 Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924 

    • 26 Isoruku Yamamoto 1884–1943 

    • 27 Zhu De (Chu Teh) 1886–1976 

 

TERM 3 / 2016 

  • Part IV: International Studies in Peace and Conflict 

  • Students will undertake ONE International Study in Peace and Conflict from those listed: 

    • A Anglo-Irish Relations 1968–1998 

    • B Conflict in Europe 1935–1945 

    • Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979 

    • D Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951 

    • E The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996 

    • F The Cold War 1945–1991 

    • G The United Nations as Peacekeeper 1946–2001 

 

TERM 4 / 2016 - HSC

  • HSC examinations

     

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