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Flashcards for VCE History: Australian History, Units 3 and 4, following the 2022 VCAA study design. One subdeck for each of the four historical investigations, then Area of Study 1 (Foundations) and Area of Study 2 (Transformations), then topic. Delete or suspend the investigations you do not study once the deck is yours.

Adding it gives you your own copy, with every subdeck below. Each card then comes back just before you would forget it, and every one you get right or wrong counts towards your mastery of its topic. You can delete or suspend the parts you are not studying once it is yours.

What is inside (49 subdecks)

  • 1. From custodianship to the Anthropocene (60,000 BCE–2010)161 cards
    • Area of Study 1: Foundations (60,000 BCE–1901)87 cards
      • 1.1 Aboriginal land management24 cards
      • 1.2 Colonisation and ideas about the land21 cards
      • 1.3 Settlement, pastoralism and expansion23 cards
      • 1.4 Gold, fire, water, drought and national parks19 cards
    • Area of Study 2: Transformations (1950–2010)74 cards
      • 2.1 The conservation movement and its campaigns29 cards
      • 2.2 Nuclear testing and the anti-nuclear movement12 cards
      • 2.3 Land use, mining and rural industries16 cards
      • 2.4 Ideas, global action and the Anthropocene17 cards
  • 2. Creating a nation (1834–2008)144 cards
    • Area of Study 1: Foundations (1834–1913)76 cards
      • 1.1 Migration to the colonies18 cards
      • 1.2 Race, exclusion and White Australia31 cards
      • 1.3 Aboriginal peoples and the protection boards13 cards
      • 1.4 Women, wealth and status in colonial society10 cards
      • 1.5 Federation and citizenship4 cards
    • Area of Study 2: Transformations (1945–2008)68 cards
      • 2.1 Post-war migration21 cards
      • 2.2 Aboriginal citizenship, land and reconciliation23 cards
      • 2.3 Refugees, borders and debates about belonging17 cards
      • 2.4 Migrants' experiences and contributions7 cards
  • 3. Power and resistance (1788–1998)173 cards
    • Area of Study 1: Foundations (1788–1913)98 cards
      • 1.1 Frontier conflict and Aboriginal resistance22 cards
      • 1.2 Self-government and democracy in the colonies21 cards
      • 1.3 The Eureka Stockade and the goldfields16 cards
      • 1.4 Labour and unions22 cards
      • 1.5 Federation and the Constitution17 cards
    • Area of Study 2: Transformations (1957–1998)75 cards
      • 2.1 Civil rights and the road to 19679 cards
      • 2.2 Land rights and Aboriginal sovereignty29 cards
      • 2.3 Whitlam and the dismissal8 cards
      • 2.4 Women's equality14 cards
      • 2.5 Workers and rights6 cards
      • 2.6 LGBTQIA+ rights9 cards
  • 4. War and upheaval (1909–1992)136 cards
    • Area of Study 1: Foundations (1909–1950)76 cards
      • 1.1 The Defence Act 1909 and the outbreak of World War One22 cards
      • 1.2 Conscription and division, 1916–191713 cards
      • 1.3 The home front in World War One8 cards
      • 1.4 Debates about Australia and World War Two21 cards
      • 1.5 The home front in World War Two12 cards
    • Area of Study 2: Transformations (1950–1992)60 cards
      • 2.1 Cold War alliances and regional security18 cards
      • 2.2 The Vietnam War17 cards
      • 2.3 Conscription and protest14 cards
      • 2.4 Veterans, memory and commemoration11 cards

Some of its cards

  • What did the Defence Act 1909 introduce in Australia?
    Compulsory military training for boys and young men
  • In which year were the first birth date ballots held for Australian national service?
    1965
  • On which date in 1978 was the first Sydney Mardi Gras held?
    24 June 1978
  • Where in South Australia did Britain test atomic weapons from 1956 to 1963?
    Maralinga
  • In which year did the Commonwealth Electoral Act finally give all Aboriginal people the right to vote in federal elections?
    1962
  • Which Victorian union leader was jailed in 1969, prompting a strike that ended penal powers?
    Clarrie O'Shea
  • In which year did Melbourne stonemasons win an eight-hour day?
    1856
  • Which Australian colony, founded in 1836, was settled by free settlers on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of colonisation?
    South Australia
  • On which date in 1770 did James Cook claim the east coast of Australia for Britain at Possession Island?
    22 August 1770
  • Which Australian Labor leader from 1960 to 1967 opposed sending conscripts to Vietnam?
    Arthur Calwell

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