The Year 10 Core History course examines the following:

  1. A troubling peace
    • Big 3 and Treaty of Versailles
    • German response
    • How to analyse cartoons
  2. Causes of World War Two
    • Rise of Nazism
    • Actions taken by Hitler
    • Appeasement in Europe
    • Invasion of Poland
  3. Pivotal Moments of WW2 such as
    • Outbreak of war
    • Battle of Britain
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Operation Overlord
    • Atomic Bomb
    • End of WW2
  4. Australia in peril
    • Australia joins the war
    • Tobruk
    • Kokoda
    • bombing of Darwin
    • Impact on the home front
  5. The Holocaust
    • Anti-Semitic laws and pogroms
    • Ideologies of the Nazi Party
    • Establishment of camps
    • Invasion of Russia
    • Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
  6. Australia post war
    • Establishment of the UN and ANZUS
    • Migration policy of ‘populate or perish’
    • Policies of assimilation and integration
    • Impact of Vietnam War and Asian migration
    • Multi-culturalism
    • Refugees and off-shore detention
  7. Civil rights for Indigenous Australians
    • First Nations Australians post 1901
    • Freedom Rides
    • Tent Embassy
    • 1967 Referendum
    • Mabo and Land Rights
    • Reconciliation

Key assessment tasks are:

  • Source analysis (WW2)
  • Research essay (resistance during the Holocaust)
  • Research tasks (Australia’s Migration)
  • Examination (including source analysis and extended response questions covering the semester’s content).

Students are expected to have their own copy of the Humanities Alive 10 textbook – physical or digital copy.