NSW HSC Modern History

What is inside (195 subdecks)

• Change in the modern world795 cards

  • Apartheid in South Africa 1960–1994147 cards

    • Black Consciousness and Soweto9 cards
    • International responses18 cards
    • Repression and control24 cards
    • Resistance: the ANC and PAC33 cards
    • The apartheid system33 cards
    • The end of apartheid30 cards
  • Civil Rights in the USA 1945–1968140 cards

    • African Americans in 194517 cards
    • Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation14 cards
    • Civil rights groups9 cards
    • Direct action 1960–196326 cards
    • Legislation and Freedom Summer25 cards
    • Little Rock, Montgomery and Martin Luther King18 cards
    • Malcolm X and Black Power23 cards
    • Opposition and influence8 cards
  • Pro-democracy Movement in Burma 1945–2010124 cards

    • Burma at the end of World War II18 cards
    • Independence and early democracy 1947–195822 cards
    • Ne Win and the rise of the military24 cards
    • Protests and the international community20 cards
    • The 1990 election and after19 cards
    • The uprising of 198821 cards
  • The Changing World Order 1945–2011122 cards

    • Eastern Europe after communism8 cards
    • New centres of global power18 cards
    • Russia after the Soviet Union18 cards
    • Supporters and opponents of US foreign policy7 cards
    • The collapse of the Soviet Union15 cards
    • The United Nations after the Cold War22 cards
    • The USA internationally 1991–201116 cards
    • World order 1945–198918 cards
  • The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square 1966–1989135 cards

    • After Mao18 cards
    • China before the Cultural Revolution25 cards
    • Deng Xiaoping's reforms23 cards
    • The Cultural Revolution40 cards
    • The Tiananmen Square protests of 198929 cards
  • The Nuclear Age 1945–2011127 cards

    • Anti-nuclear movements and treaties17 cards
    • Benefits of nuclear technology10 cards
    • British tests in Australia14 cards
    • French tests and Greenpeace11 cards
    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki15 cards
    • Nuclear deterrence15 cards
    • Proliferation9 cards
    • Risks: waste and accidents15 cards
    • The birth of the Nuclear Age10 cards
    • The nuclear threat and civilian fear11 cards
• Core study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946255 cards

  • 1. The peace treaties after World War I49 cards
  • 2. The rise of dictatorships after World War I39 cards

    • Conditions that enabled dictators9 cards
    • Italy10 cards
    • Japan11 cards
    • Russia9 cards
  • 3. The Nazi regime to 1939111 cards

    • Consolidating power 1933–193418 cards
    • Impact on life in Germany22 cards
    • Methods of control16 cards
    • Nazi ideology9 cards
    • Opposition8 cards
    • Prominent individuals11 cards
    • The collapse of the Weimar Republic27 cards
  • 4. The search for peace and security 1919–194656 cards

    • International agreements before 193914 cards
    • Japan and Germany's ambitions6 cards
    • The League of Nations23 cards
    • The United Nations13 cards
• National studies1102 cards

  • Australia 1918–1949127 cards

    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples17 cards
    • After World War I20 cards
    • Australia in the 1920s16 cards
    • Communism and the 1949 election14 cards
    • Foreign policy 1918–194919 cards
    • John Curtin and social welfare7 cards
    • Postwar Australia17 cards
    • The Great Depression17 cards
  • China 1927–1949132 cards

    • China in 192723 cards
    • Japanese invasion and resistance28 cards
    • The civil war and communist victory20 cards
    • The Long March14 cards
    • The Nationalist decade 1927–193717 cards
    • The rise of the Communist Party18 cards
    • Yan'an12 cards
  • India 1942–1984140 cards

    • Foreign policy18 cards
    • Gandhi9 cards
    • Indira Gandhi32 cards
    • Modernisation of the economy15 cards
    • Nehru's India 1947–196427 cards
    • Sikh separatism and Indira Gandhi's death10 cards
    • Towards independence29 cards
  • Indonesia 1945–2005138 cards

    • Challenges of the new republic 1950–195713 cards
    • Foreign policy and relations with Australia16 cards
    • Nationalism and independence29 cards
    • Religious and regional issues14 cards
    • Sukarno and Guided Democracy15 cards
    • The 1965 coup16 cards
    • The fall of Suharto17 cards
    • The New Order18 cards
  • Iran 1945–1989137 cards

    • Iran and the USA9 cards
    • Iran to the 1953 coup35 cards
    • Tensions with Iraq15 cards
    • The Islamic Republic under Khomeini21 cards
    • The Revolution of 197927 cards
    • The rule of the Shah 1953–197930 cards
  • Japan 1904–1937116 cards

    • Challenges to traditional authority in the 1920s23 cards
    • Foreign policy to 193715 cards
    • Japan as an emerging power29 cards
    • Political and social issues by 192115 cards
    • The Great Depression and the rise of militarism34 cards
  • Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1941163 cards

    • Economic transformation under Stalin26 cards
    • Lenin's death and the power struggle22 cards
    • Political transformation and terror23 cards
    • Social and cultural change14 cards
    • Soviet foreign policy 1917–194124 cards
    • The Bolshevik seizure of power and early government25 cards
    • The Civil War and War Communism20 cards
    • The New Economic Policy9 cards
  • USA 1919–1941149 cards

    • After World War I and the 1920s37 cards
    • Causes of the Great Depression9 cards
    • Foreign policy and mobilisation21 cards
    • Roosevelt and the New Deal39 cards
    • Social tensions26 cards
    • The Depression and Hoover17 cards
• Peace and conflict917 cards

  • Conflict in Europe 1935–1945134 cards

    • Appeasement19 cards
    • Civilians at war12 cards
    • German advances 1939–194014 cards
    • German foreign policy to 19398 cards
    • North Africa8 cards
    • The air war14 cards
    • The collapse of collective security16 cards
    • The end of the war15 cards
    • The Holocaust15 cards
    • The Russian campaign13 cards
  • Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979148 cards

    • American escalation from 196419 cards
    • Anti-war movements20 cards
    • Cambodia and Laos15 cards
    • Civilians9 cards
    • Decolonisation and the French defeat21 cards
    • North and South Vietnam 1954–196423 cards
    • Strategy and tactics9 cards
    • The Tet Offensive13 cards
    • US withdrawal and communist victory19 cards
  • Conflict in the Gulf 1980–2011141 cards

    • Consequences of the 1991 defeat19 cards
    • Iraq in transition 2003–201128 cards
    • Iraq under the Ba'ath regime and the Iran–Iraq War24 cards
    • Tension in the Gulf: the response29 cards
    • The invasion of Kuwait13 cards
    • The Iraq War28 cards
  • Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951147 cards

    • Allied strategy 1942–194521 cards
    • Civilians in occupied territories18 cards
    • Growth of tensions 1937–194110 cards
    • Home fronts in Japan and Australia14 cards
    • Japan's strategy4 cards
    • Occupation of Japan14 cards
    • Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance27 cards
    • The end of the war19 cards
    • Turning points20 cards
  • The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996174 cards

    • Camp David and peace with Egypt16 cards
    • Lebanon15 cards
    • Origins and the 1948 war30 cards
    • Tensions to 196716 cards
    • The Intifada14 cards
    • The Occupied Territories11 cards
    • The peace process25 cards
    • The PLO 1964–197411 cards
    • The Six Day War 196718 cards
    • The Yom Kippur War 197318 cards
  • The Cold War 1945–1991173 cards

    • Czechoslovakia 19685 cards
    • Détente19 cards
    • Development of the Cold War to 196831 cards
    • Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War35 cards
    • McCarthyism4 cards
    • Origins 1945–194936 cards
    • Renewal of the Cold War18 cards
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis14 cards
    • The Korean War8 cards
    • The Sino-Soviet split and China3 cards