AC9HH10K17 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor changing social, political, economic, cultural, environmental and technological conditions, and the causes of a major global influence in Australia

Elaborations

• • Elaboration describing the impact of the Vietnam War on Vietnam and how the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975 resulted in the arrival of refugees into Australia
• • Elaboration investigating policies of multiculturalism since the 1970s and the concepts of cultural heritage and assimilation
• • Elaboration analysing post–Second World War population growth and the development of Australia’s culturally diverse society, using different types of graphs
• • Elaboration recognising the historic impact of the pictures of Earth taken during the Apollo 8 mission and how they influenced people’s view of the world
• • Elaboration explaining events such as the struggle over American, British and French nuclear weapon testing in the Pacific from 1946 to 1996 or the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
• • Elaboration evaluating the effectiveness of international protocols and treaties such as Kyoto (1997), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (since 1992) and the Washington Declaration (2007)
• • Elaboration identifying American and Asian influences on Australian popular culture since the Second World War, such as through mainstream Hollywood and Bollywood films, and the animation film industry in China and Japan

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• • Elaboration investigating the changing contribution of the Australian rock ‘n’ roll, film and television industries to Australian culture and identity through the development and export of music, film and television