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The Year 10 Core History course examines the following:
- A troubling peace
- Big 3 and Treaty of Versailles
- German response
- How to analyse cartoons
- Causes of World War Two
- Rise of Nazism
- Actions taken by Hitler
- Appeasement in Europe
- Invasion of Poland
- Pivotal Moments of WW2 such as
- Outbreak of war
- Battle of Britain
- Pearl Harbor
- Operation Overlord
- Atomic Bomb
- End of WW2
- Australia in peril
- Australia joins the war
- Tobruk
- Kokoda
- bombing of Darwin
- Impact on the home front
- The Holocaust
- Anti-Semitic laws and pogroms
- Ideologies of the Nazi Party
- Establishment of camps
- Invasion of Russia
- Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
- 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
- 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.