Outlines+and+Dates

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**VCE Course overview**


 * Unit 1: Twentieth Century History Overview **

Students will analyse and explain the development of a political crisis and conflict in the period 1900 to 1945.
 * Outcome 1: Crisis and Conflict**


 * Key knowledge**
 * Geopolitical changes resulting from the treaties signed following World War I as reflected in a comparison of contemporary and historical maps
 * Circumstances leading to the emergence of new political ideas about social and economic order
 * Main characteristics of the new political order
 * The means by which individuals, organisations and groups of people attempted to establish and legitimise particular political ideas; for example through rhetoric and propaganda, education, symbols, appeals to the past, appeals to nationalistic sentiment
 * Conflict which emerged from the attempts to implement new political and social ideas, such as international conflict (World War II).

These skills include the ability to:
 * Key Skills**
 * Create, annotate and interpret maps
 * Use key concepts relevant to the selected historical context; such culture, nationalism, internationalism, race, ideology, gender and class
 * Analyse written and visual evidence
 * Synthesise evidence to draw conclusions
 * Present historical material using historical conventions such as quotations, bibliography and footnotes.

Students will analyse and discuss the patterns of social life and the factors which influenced changes to social life in the first half of the twentieth century.
 * Outcome 2: Social Life**


 * Key Knowledge**
 * Change and continuity in patterns of social life experienced by different groups in the first half of the twentieth century; for example, Jewish and Aryan children in Nazi Germany
 * The role of class, race, ethnicity, political affiliation, nationality and gender in social experience; for example the persecution of Jews by the Nazis
 * Factors influencing changes in social life, especially economic, political and technological developments
 * The way in which groups and communities organised to protect and advance their political, social and economic interests; for example para-military groups, nationalist and patriotic groups.

These skills include the ability to:
 * Key Skills**
 * Analyse written and visual evidence
 * Synthesise evidence to draw conclusions
 * Compare different experiences of social life between groups from the selected historical context
 * Present historical material using historical conventions such as quotations, bibliography and footnotes.

Students will analyse the relationship between the historical context and a cultural expression of the period from 1900-1945.
 * Outcome 3: Cultural Expression**


 * Key Knowledge**
 * The work of a cultural or artistic movement, group or individual in the first half of the twentieth century; for example, Charlie Chaplin, the Surrealists, the Bauhaus group
 * Responses to, or the effect of, the work of the movement, group or individual; for example, was it celebrated, reviled, censored, universally popular or only known to the avant-garde?
 * The relationship between cultural expression and political, social or economic developments of the period

These skills include the ability to:
 * Key Skills**
 * Locate and select relevant sources
 * Analyse written and visual evidence
 * Construct an argument using a range of sources
 * Present material using historical conventions such as quotations, footnotes and a bibliography


 * Introduction and skills
 * Footnotes, Bibliography, Notetaking
 * Ideologies research
 * What is fascism? What is socialism? What is communism? What is democracy?
 * Explain the differences, similarities
 * Political parties and orientation
 * Powerpoint quiz
 * Rise of Weimar Republic
 * Treaty of Versailles – questions
 * Problems of Weimar
 * Political
 * Economic
 * The Great Depression
 * Background info, Implications
 * Modern comparisons??!!
 * The collapse of Weimar
 * Powerpoint
 * The rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany
 * What I know about Nazis
 * Who was Hitler? Hitler’s ideas
 * The rise of Fascism
 * The Nazi Party
 * The Munich Putsch (looking back – catalysts)
 * Night of the Long Knives
 * Burning the Reichstag
 * Leni Riefenstahl
 * Prelude to war
 * Analysis of visual images

AOS 2 Social Life
> > ==AOS 3Cultural Expression==
 * What is Judaism? Who were the Jews?
 * Social and cultural factors of anti-semitism
 * Everyday life under Hitler’s Third Reich
 * Jewish life in Hitler’s Germany
 * Treatment of the Jews
 * Law and cultural aspects
 * The //German National Catechism//
 * Nuremberg Laws
 * Increasing persecution – 1933-8, 1938-41, 1941-45
 * Nazi and Anti-Semitic Propaganda
 * //Kristallnacht//
 * The Final Solution
 * The Holocaust
 * Cultural Expression between 1900-45
 * Relationship between historical context and a cultural expression/ movement of the period
 * What is Cultural Expression?
 * How can Cultural Expression be linked to an Historical context?
 * What are some cultural movements of the early 20thCentury?
 * Art, architecture and design
 * Music
 * Writing/ ideas
 * Dance
 * Film/ Entertainment
 * Technology


 * What concepts can we investigate?
 * The movement/ work and its details
 * Who created it? What was their background (religion, race, gender, country of origin, generation)?
 * What is it? When was it made? What is its medium?
 * What was the purpose of the creation?
 * What are the aims of the movement? What are the philosophies?
 * Themes in the work/ movement
 * How do these relate to the historical context?
 * The impact of the work/ movement
 * How was it received when it was created?
 * Is this different today? Why?
 * Who was it created for? Why?
 * The historical context in which the work/ movement was produced
 * What was the political situation at the time?
 * What was the economic situation?
 * What events of significance came before the movement/ work?
 * Links between these concepts