AC9HH10K01 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the causes, outbreak and course of the Second World War and the significance of Australian involvement

Elaborations

• • Elaboration investigating significant events and ideas during the inter-war years between the First World War and the Second World War, including the Treaty of Versailles (territorial concessions required by Germany and the imposition of war reparations), the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression, rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933
• • Elaboration analysing the major events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War, such as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War, Italo–Abyssinian Wars, the annexation of Austria, the Munich Agreement and the annexation of the Sudetenland, the invasion of Poland in 1939, the occupation of China and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
• • Elaboration investigating the causes of the effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany, the structural weaknesses of the League of Nations, the rise of fascist and militarist regimes, and the failure of appeasement policies
• • Elaboration examining the reasons for Australia’s involvement in the Second World War, and the responses to the conflicts of prime minister Robert Menzies, “Australia is also at war” and prime minister John Curtin, “Australia looks to America”