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Notes for NSW HSC Modern History (NESA Stage 6 syllabus, 2017), in four folders in the syllabus's order: the core study on Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946, then National studies, Peace and conflict, and Change in the modern world, each with a folder for every option. Delete the option folders your class does not study.

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  • Core study, Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946
    • The peace treaties after World War I7 KB
    • Why dictators rose in the interwar period6 KB
    • The dictatorships in Russia, Italy and Japan7 KB
    • Germany 1919–1933: the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler10 KB
    • The consolidation of Nazi power in Germany 1933–19346 KB
    • Nazi ideology and prominent individuals6 KB
    • Nazi methods of control in Germany7 KB
    • Life in Nazi Germany9 KB
    • Opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany6 KB
    • The League of Nations and international agreements to 19398 KB
    • German and Japanese ambitions, and the creation of the United Nations8 KB
  • National studies
    • Australia 1918–1949
      • Australia 1918–1949: after World War I and in the 1920s8 KB
      • Australia 1918–1949: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples8 KB
      • Australia 1918–1949: the Great Depression and John Curtin's social welfare8 KB
      • Australia 1918–1949: foreign policy, postwar reconstruction and the 1949 election9 KB
    • China 1927–1949
      • China 1927–1937: the Nationalist decade8 KB
      • China 1927–1936: the rise of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong and the Long March7 KB
      • China 1931–1949: Japanese invasion, Yan'an and the communist victory11 KB
    • India 1942–1984
      • India 1942–1948: the road to independence, partition and Gandhi8 KB
      • India 1947–1964: Nehru's new nation9 KB
      • India 1964–1984: Indira Gandhi, foreign policy and Sikh separatism10 KB
    • Indonesia 1945–2005
      • Indonesia 1900–1965: nationalism, independence and Sukarno8 KB
      • Indonesia 1965–1998: the 1965 coup and the New Order9 KB
      • Indonesia 1975–2005: regional and religious issues, the end of the New Order and relations with Australia10 KB
    • Japan 1904–1937
      • Japan 1904–1921: an emerging power8 KB
      • Japan 1921–1930: limited democracy and challenges to traditional authority8 KB
      • Japan 1930–1937: the Depression, the rise of militarism and foreign policy10 KB
    • Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1941
      • Russia 1917–1924: the Bolsheviks take and hold power10 KB
      • The Soviet Union 1924–1929: the power struggle after Lenin7 KB
      • The Soviet Union 1928–1941: economic change under Stalin7 KB
      • The Soviet Union 1928–1941: terror, society, culture and foreign policy12 KB
    • USA 1919–1941
      • The USA 1919–1929: politics, prosperity and the road to the Crash9 KB
      • The USA 1929–1941: the Great Depression, Hoover and the New Deal10 KB
      • The USA 1919–1941: society, social tensions and foreign policy11 KB
    • Iran 1945–1989
      • Iran 1941–1953: the Second World War, oil nationalisation and the overthrow of Mosaddeq7 KB
      • Iran 1953–1979: the rule of the Shah and the Revolution of 197910 KB
      • Iran 1979–1989: the Islamic Republic under Khomeini, relations with the USA and the war with Iraq9 KB
  • Peace and conflict
    • Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979
      • Conflict in Indochina 1946–1964: decolonisation, the French defeat and the two Vietnams10 KB
      • Conflict in Indochina 1964–1975: the Second Indochina War13 KB
      • Conflict in Indochina: Cambodia, Laos and the Khmer Rouge regime to 19798 KB
    • Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951
      • Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1942: rising tension, Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance10 KB
      • Conflict in the Pacific 1942–1945: turning points and the strategies of Japan and the Allies8 KB
      • Conflict in the Pacific: civilians in occupied territories and on the home fronts10 KB
      • The end of the Pacific War and the Allied occupation of Japan to 195110 KB
    • Conflict in Europe 1935–1945
      • Conflict in Europe 1935–1939: the collapse of collective security, appeasement and German foreign policy9 KB
      • Conflict in Europe 1939–1943: German advances, the air war and North Africa9 KB
      • Conflict in Europe 1941–1945: the Russian campaign, the liberation of the west and the defeat of Germany11 KB
      • Conflict in Europe 1939–1945: civilians at war and the Holocaust11 KB
    • The Cold War 1945–1991
      • The Cold War 1945–1953: origins, early crises and the Korean War11 KB
      • The Cold War 1953–1968: containment, peaceful coexistence, the arms and space races and the crises10 KB
      • The Cold War 1968–1979: détente8 KB
      • The Cold War 1979–1991: renewal of tension and the end of the Cold War10 KB
    • Conflict in the Gulf 1980–2011
      • Conflict in the Gulf 1968–1990: Iraq under the Ba'ath, the Iran–Iraq War and the invasion of Kuwait7 KB
      • Conflict in the Gulf 1990–2003: the First Gulf War and the consequences of Iraq's defeat9 KB
      • Conflict in the Gulf 2001–2011: the Iraq War and Iraq in transition10 KB
    • The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996
      • The Arab–Israeli conflict 1917–1967: origins, the 1948 war and its consequences10 KB
      • The Arab–Israeli conflict 1967–1979: the Six Day War, the PLO, the Yom Kippur War and Camp David10 KB
      • The Arab–Israeli conflict 1967–1996: the Occupied Territories, Lebanon, the Intifada and the peace process12 KB
  • Change in the modern world
    • Pro-democracy Movement in Burma 1945–2010
      • Burma 1945–1962: independence, early democracy and the challenges of the new state8 KB
      • Burma 1962–1988: Ne Win, the Burmese Way to Socialism and the rise of the military7 KB
      • Burma 1988–2010: the uprising, Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy and the response of the military9 KB
    • The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square 1966–1989
      • China 1949–1966: the legacy of the 1949 revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the origins of the Cultural Revolution8 KB
      • China 1966–1976: the Cultural Revolution10 KB
      • China 1976–1989: Deng Xiaoping's reforms and the Tiananmen Square protests12 KB
    • Civil Rights in the USA 1945–1968
      • Civil rights in the USA 1945–1957: segregation, the civil rights groups and Brown v. Board of Education10 KB
      • Civil rights in the USA 1955–1963: Montgomery, Martin Luther King and direct action8 KB
      • Civil rights in the USA 1964–1968: legislation, Malcolm X, Black Power and the movement's legacy12 KB
    • The Changing World Order 1945–2011
      • The changing world order 1945–1989: the Cold War world, the United Nations and the American Century8 KB
      • The changing world order: the collapse of the USSR, post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe after communism9 KB
      • The changing world order 1991–2011: the USA in the world and new centres of global power11 KB
      • The United Nations 1991–2011: peace and security after the Cold War9 KB
    • The Nuclear Age 1945–2011
      • The Nuclear Age 1942–1960s: the birth of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nuclear deterrence8 KB
      • The Nuclear Age: the nuclear threat, civilian fears, weapons testing, Maralinga and the Pacific10 KB
      • The Nuclear Age: anti-nuclear movements, treaties, proliferation and nuclear energy13 KB
    • Apartheid in South Africa 1960–1994
      • South Africa: the apartheid system8 KB
      • South Africa: national resistance to apartheid, the ANC and PAC, Sharpeville, Mandela and Biko11 KB
      • South Africa: repression and control, international responses and the end of apartheid12 KB

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Core study, Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946 / The peace treaties after World War I

The fighting on the Western Front ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918, but the peace settlement was made over the following eighteen months at the Paris Peace Conference, which opened in January 1919. The defeated powers were not allowed to negotiate; they were handed terms and told to sign. Five separate treaties were drawn up, one for each of the defeated powers, and the one with Germany, the Treaty of Versailles, shaped the politics of the interwar years more than any other. ## The aims of the victors The settlement was driven by three men, each wanting something different. Woodrow Wilson, the American president, had set out his Fourteen Points in January 1918: open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, a reduction in armaments, self-determination for national groups and a League of Nations to settle disputes. He wanted a peace that would not leave the defeated nation bitter. Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister, came from a country that had been invaded twice in fifty years and whose north-east had been devastated, so he wanted Germany permanently weakened and France made secure. David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, wanted to protect British trade, the navy and the empire and to see Germany punished, but he also feared that a crushed Germany would turn to revolution or seek revenge, and he wanted it to recover as a trading partner. Vittorio Orlando of Italy and the Japanese delegation also took part, but the decisions were largely made by the…

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