Year 9 NSW » History

History

Contents: In this subject you will learn...

Unit 1
Australia to 1914

Topic 1: Life in Australia at the turn of the century

Topic 2: Federation and Australia's Constitution

Topic 3: White Australia: Immigration Restriction Act 1901

Topic 4: Suffrage

Topic 5: Social legislation 1901-1914

Unit 2
Australia and World War I

Topic 1: Why did Australia become involved in the war?

Topic 2: Gallipoli and the ANZACs

Topic 3: Recruitment and conscription

Topic 4: Women and the war

Topic 5: Different perspectives of the war

Unit 3
Australia between the wars: 1920s

Topic 1: Australians between the wars: 1920s

Topic 2: Contribution and significance of an individual in the 1920s

Topic 3: An event in the 1920s

Topic 4: A significant political development in the 1920s

Unit 4
Australia between the wars: 1930s

Topic 1: Varying experience of a group in the 1930s

Topic 2: Contribution and significance of an individual in the 1930s

Topic 3: An event in the 1930s

Topic 4: A significant political development in the 1930s

Unit 5
Australia and World War II

Topic 1: Why did Australia become involved?

Topic 2: War time experiences

Topic 3: The Australian home front

Topic 4: Government control

Topic 5: Women in World War II

Topic 6: Relations with Britain and the United States of America

Unit 6
Australia in the Vietnam War era

Topic 1: The spread of communism after the Second World War

Topic 2: Australia's responses to the threat of communism: domestic

Topic 3: Australia's responses to the threat of communism: international

Topic 4: Why did Australia become involved in the Vietnam War?

Topic 5: Responses of various groups

Topic 6: The impact of the war

Unit 7
Changing rights and freedoms: Aboriginal people

Topic 1: The Aboriginal experience

Topic 2: Stealing a generation (asssimilation)

Topic 3: Self-determination

Topic 4: Land Rights and Native Title

Topic 5: Terra Nullius: changed and changing views of history

Topic 6: Reconciliation

Unit 8
Changing rights and freedoms: women

Topic 1: Women

Unit 9
Power, people and politics in the post-war period

Topic 1: Background to Australian foreign relations

Topic 2: Australia as a global citizen

Topic 3: People and power

Topic 4: Prime Minister and policies (1945-1972)

Topic 5: Prime Minister and policies (1972-Today)

Unit 10
Australia's social and cultural history in the post-war period

Topic 1: The impact of changing technology on everyday life

Topic 2: Social and cultural features of the 1950s

Topic 3: Social and cultural features of the 1960s

Topic 4: Social and cultural features of the 1970s

Topic 5: Social and cultural features of the 1980s

Topic 6: Social and cultural features of the 1990s

Unit 11
Investigating history

Topic 1: Investigating the past

Topic 2: Terminology and concepts

Topic 3: Historical inquiry

Topic 4: Heritage

Topic 5: Take a good look

Topic 6: Who is that?

Topic 7: Who are they?

Unit 12
Australia after 1945 - the impact of new technology

Topic 1: Impact of new technology on Australia

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