Sydney Distance Education High School HSC Course Overview

The course allows students to develop the skills needed to acquire effective, higher-order thinking skills that they will need for further education, work and everyday life. Also students will develop an appreciation for democratic values and concern for the welfare, rights and dignity of all people.

Part 1 - World War I 1914 - 1919 (Core Study) – online links and activities

•  World War I Begins

•  Attempts to Break the Stalemate

•  Life and Death in the Trenches

•  Total War

•  Attitudes to War

•  Women and Post War Expectations

•  Allied Victory and the Peace Conference

•  Assessment Task I: Source-Based Task

Part 2– Russia and the Soviet Union 1917 to 1941 (National Study) – online links and activities

•  Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson

•  Background to the Bolshevik Revolution

•  The Bolsheviks Revolution

•  The Bolsheviks in Power

•  War Communism and the NEP (New Economic Policy)

•  The Rise to Power of Stalin

•  Industrialisation and Collectivisation

•  Stalinism: Society and Politics

•  Assessment Task 2: Research and Oral Task

•  Soviet Foreign Policy

Part 3 - Leon Trotsky 1879-1940 –online links and activities
(A Personality of the 20th Century)

• Trotsky and Young Lev in Tsarist Russia

• Revolution and Lenin's Right Hand Man

• Power Struggle with Stalin and Trotsky in Exile

• Trotsky

Part 4 - Indochina 1954 to 1979 – online links and activities
(International Study in Peace and Conflict)

•  Setting the Scene

•  Towards War

•  The Second Indochina War Begins

•  The Impact of the TET Offensive

• The Impact of War on Civilians

•  Assessment Task 3: In Class Essay

•  The War Ends in Vietnam

•  The Khmer Rouge

•  Assessment Task 4: Trial HSC Examination

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