Modern History Year 11 ATAR

A1HIM

The focus for this unit is Understanding the Modern World. Capitalism, the American Experience 1907 - 1941

Students learn about:

• Economic, political, social factors and external forces – The Great Depression
• Key ideas – consumerism, film, fashion – Jazz Age
• Key people - Roosevelts, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover.

A2HIM

The focus for this unit is Movements for Change in the 20^th Century - Nazism in Germany including:

• Economic, political, social factors and external forces – anti-Semitism
• Key ideas – propaganda, terror, repression
• Key people – Hitler, Stresemann, Krupp, Goebbels.