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= **Hello fellow-toilers in the HSC salt mines!** =

Welcome to the Modern History help page for Years 11 and 12 students in New South Wales in general and the 'Stupendous Six' of 2008/9, 'Numinous Nine' of 2009/10 and the 'Extraordinary Eight' of 2011/12 of LAGS in particular. Welcome on board the HSC, class of 2012!

The idea is that //all// members are meant to contribute study notes, startling insights and ideas to this space, to help everyone in the class. Eventually, we should be able to put exam questions and assessment tasks on here as well.

So now you //will// have a legitimate reason to be on-line when you're supposed to be studying.



Your fellow Modern History students need YOU!

PS: There may be a chocolate for students who can remember what the 'super-useful when 'doing' source analysis mnemonic' stands for:

**//COMAC PUR//** = =

General Resources To begin with, here's a few general links for the **Year 12 course**:

The **//syllabus//**, for when you can't remember what else we are studying:

There's a link to **//hsc online//**, run through Charles Sturt University: http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/modern_history/

And one to the Board of Studies to find **//past HSC exam papers//**: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/

A link to the 2010 HSC exam paper: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/hsc2010exams/pdf_doc/2010-hsc-exam-modern-history.pdf

And a link to some **//map-based revision//** of pretty much our entire course: []

NEW! A copy of the revamped outline of the HSC examination for 2010 onwards ONLY: NEW! A link to sample answers for the 2009 HSC on the Board of Studies website: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/hsc2009exams/

And a link to the BOS Standards Packages for more sample responses on each section: http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/hsc/std-packs

Core Study: World War One 1914-1919

To begin with, here's a few useful links for when all those tree-killing booklets mysteriously go missing:

//**The Core Study study guides**// (that's World War I, if you've forgotten already - the one where you get to look at pictures and talk about perspective all the time):

The **//assessment task outline//** and flow chart will be able to be accessed here:



As well as some information on **//creating photoessays//**: []

The worksheet for the documentary we began the Core Study with:

A smartboard map-based outline of key battles of the war: A brief outline of John Keegan's theory on why the stalemate was not broken sooner:

Class notes: **//Changing attitudes of soldiers to the war//** (a work in progress):

Class activities: **//Propaganda, recruitment and changing civilian attitudes//**:

Class activity: //**Writing a letter from the 'home front' in 1916**//:

And some useful //**websites for World War I research**// (which you could always add to):

[|__http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-color.html__] [|__http://www.inflandersfields.be/#museum__] [|__http://www.greatwar.co.uk/index.htm__] [|__http://www.firstworldwar.com/__] [|__http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm__] [|__http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm__] [|__http://www.gwpda.org/__] [|__http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/wqww1.html__] [|__http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm__] [|__http://hi.com.au/evidenceww1/hotlinks3e.asp__]

And a link to some useful revision notes on the **Treaty of Versail**les: [] []

NEW!!! A guideline to answering the //**source analysis question**// in the exam:

**Germany 1918-1939**

**//Study Guides for your National Study//** (Germany, see above).  (Only ONE essay chosen from TWO for this section in the **//HSC//** [NB:not the entire exam - keep going once you've answered this.]) 

**The Assessment Task outline for this topic:**

**Notes on the //key issues// identified by the syllabus:** 

 A research fact sheet on **//cultural life in the Weimar Republic//**: 

 Here's some notes on **//Nazi foreign policy//** in the lead-up to World War II 

And a powerpoint outlining the main features of //**Nazi foreign policy**//:



<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And some wikipedia pages on some of the **//key historians on Nazi Germany//** (to get you started on this key component of the topic): <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw__//] <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert__//] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Broszat] __// <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dietrich_Bracher__] <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Mommsen__] <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shirer__]

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As well as a **//'who's who//** in the NSDAP zoo' <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Activities linked to Study Guide 3:** <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And a link to the on-line tutorial on **//Schleicher//** (the role of the army and the military): <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> []

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Activities linked to Study Guide 4: <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

Summary table on social control and gleichschaltung under the Nazis: <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A research task on the //**Jewish community**//: <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And a link to the hsc online timeline on Nazi treatment of the Jews of Eastern Europe: <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> []

Activities linked to Study Guide 5:

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**A link to a great click'n'revise on //Nazi foreign policy// and the path to World War II:** <span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.johndclare.net/causes_of_world_war_two_revision.htm

<span style="color: #ff9000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And some other **//notes and revision materials//** on Weimar Germany and the Nazis:

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And a one-sheet list of **//past HSC essay questions//** from 2001 to 2007:

And summary notes outlining the **//key historiographical issues//** in studying the Third Reich:

**Key individual: Albert Speer - the 'Good' Nazi?**



Was he or wasn't he a good, repentant Nazi? How much did he know about the Holocaust? And if he did know about it, why did he lie at Nuremburg and afterwards? Was he really Hitler's bestie? Why did he join the Nazis? Was his architecture any good or was it bombastic Nazi propaganda? You will consider these questions and more about this man. A very interesting, intelligent individual.

A background from wikipedia on the **//Nuremburg trials//**, where Speer managed to escape with his life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

A link to material from Speer's memoirs, //**Inside the Third Reich**//: []

The slides from a powerpoint on **//Speer's place in History//**:

Some **//websites//** on Speer (NB: watch out for crackpot neo-Nazi propaganda on-line):

[|//__www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/**speer**a1.shtml__//] [|//__http://albertspeer.tripod.com__//] [|//__www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/**Speer**1.html__//] [|//__www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/**Speer**.html__//] [|//__www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GER**speer**.htm__//] [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Fest__//] [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldhagen__//] [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitta_Sereny__//] [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw__//] [|//__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert__//] [|//__www.**historiography**-project.com/jhrchives/v05/v05p439__//] [|//__http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_n4_v78/ai_19178134/pg_2__//] [|//__www.ehs.org.uk/ehs/conference2006/Assets/SummaryIF.doc__//] [|//__www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780074717455.html__//]

The Cold War 1945 - 1991 What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? What does that superb acronym 'MAD' actually stand for? What is the connection between Osama bin Laden and the USA? Why was the Berlin Wall built and how and why did it fall? What were glasnost and perestroika? Find out in your final topic for Year 12 (who was that cheering up the back?). Study guides for this topic:



A list of **past HSC questions:**

An introductory powerpoint (goes up to the end of the Cold War):

The assessment task outline for this topic:

A link to the trailer for the movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis, //Thirteen Days:// []

And to Kennedy's address to the USA about the crisis: []

The American perspective: []

The Soviet perspective on the events: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phpe0DsisbY&feature=related

**Activity sheets for each Study Guide:**



And some useful **//websites//**: [|www.coldwar.org] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/coldwar/index.shtml [|www.findarticles.com] [|www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.html] [|www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mosbook45.html] http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war/html [|www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html]  http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~wmood/Hist365/36502.htm

And a few links to useful **//revision notes and quizzes//**:

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