AC9HH10K16 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

causes and effects of the significant events and developments of the major global influences on Australia in the post-Second World War period

Elaborations

• 1 investigating how the fear of communism and the emergence of the Cold War impacted on Australian society, particularly in relation to political debates, immigration and some aspects of popular culture including music, film and sport
• 2 examining the “the long boom” under prime minister Robert Menzies, in particular the expansion of primary industry exports (wool and iron ore) and the growth of protected manufacturing industries such as steel, textiles, electrical goods and automobiles, and the promotion of home ownership
• 3 analysing the causes of cultural development and the effects on Australian society such as the post–Second World War baby boom and the resulting effect of the development of youth culture in the 1960s
• 4 investigating America’s cultural influences, such as the arrival of television for the Melbourne Olympics (1956) and Bill Haley’s Australian tour (1957), and British popular influences, such as the Mersey sound and The Beatles’ tour of 1964
• 5 comparing views on the values and beliefs of rock ‘n’ roll, film and television across time, age and gender, such as issues of conservatism and rebellion, the challenge to established ideas and national identity
• 6 analysing the causes and conditions that led to the environment movement and its effects on changing public opinion about protecting the environment, such as rapid population increase, urbanisation, increases in industrial pollution and waste, and species extinction

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