YEAR 10 HISTORY TERM 3 UNIT PLANNER

Week.
1
11JUL
to
15JUL

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Significance of
World War II to
Australias
international
relationships in the
twentieth century,
with particular
reference to the
Britain, the USA,
Asia and United
Nations
(VCHHK149).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC122).
(VCHHC121).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHCI28).

Content.

Pedagogies.

Resources.

Concepts.
Historical Significance.
Cause & Consequence.

Mini Lecture/PowerPoints.
- End of WWII in Europe.
o Key events, dates,
consequences.
o Changing
relationship with
Britain (US & AUS).
- Peace Conferences.
o Yalta, Potsdam.
o US & USSR
relations.
- Creation of UN.

Alpha History:
http://alphahistory.com/coldwar/po
st-war-divisions/

Content.
Overview: End of
WWI.
Key figures, dates,
events, ideologies, etc.
- Nazis, Fascists,
Western Allies.
- Yalta, Potsdam,
UN.
- Changing
relationship with
Britain.

Activities.
- Cause and
consequence/significance
activity.
o Mapping the end of
WWII to the
beginning of the
Cold War.
- Comparison task: Peace
Conferences.
o Student to fill out a
table (will be given
to them) that
highlights the
different agendas of
the UK, USA and

http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.or
g/collection/27/cold-war-origins
END OF WWII
-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). After the
War Creating a New Order pp.1226.
-HA10 (Jacaranda): World War II pp.
66-69
-HA10 (Jacaranda): World War II
pp.64-65
PEACE CONFERENCES
Yalta
http://www.historylearningsite.co.u
k/world-war-two/the-warconferences/the-yalta-warconference/
https://www.britannica.com/event/
Yalta-Conference
https://history.state.gov/milestones
/1937-1945/yalta-conf
Potsdam

Assessment(s).
Exit Card: most
influential
consequence of
WWII on the
beginning of the
Cold War.
Exit Card: one thing
you learnt about
the UN, one thing
you find interesting
and one question
you have.

USSR in Potsdam &

Yalta.
Investigation into and
discussion of Australias
involvement with the UN
and the peacemaking
attempts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2p
eopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflas
h/a1144829.shtml
https://www.britannica.com/event/
Potsdam-Conference
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how
-the-potsdam-conference-shapedthe-future-of-post-war-europe
UN
-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). After the
War Creating a New Order pp.3236
-HA10 (Jacaranda): Since WWII pp.
84-85

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
2
Key Knowledge.
18JULto Effects of significant
22JUL
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).
Week.

Key Skills.
(VCHHC128).

Content.

Pedagogies.

Resources.

Concepts.
Historical Significance.
Evidence.

Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Origins of communism & capitalism.
o Industrial Rev, Bourgeoisie, Marx
& Engles.
o Manipulations of communism.
Russia, China, Cuba.
o Difference between Communism
& Totalitarianism/Dictatorships.

COMMUNISM
-HA10 (Jacaranda): The
Modern World and
Australia pp. 18-19.
http://alphahistory.com
/coldwar/communistrussia/

Content.
Communism vs
capitalism.
- Marx & Engels.
Lenin & Russia preStalin V Stalin
takeover.
- Dictatorships V
utopia.

Thurs 21: Girls netball 9am-12pm.

Activities.
- Comparison tables: communism V
capitalism.
o Key figures, politics, social,
economics, trade, industry, etc.
- Source Analysis: propaganda of the two
ideologies.
o Discussion into source analysis.
What are sources? What
are the categories?
How do we analyse
sources?
How do we determine
their usefulness?
Reliability?
Wineburg, VanSledright,
Seixas methods.
- PMIQ chart and discussion of both
ideologies.
- Google Doc, key leaders of the Cold War.
o Recap of last terms work.

CAPITALISM
http://alphahistory.com
/coldwar/capitalistamerica/
SOURCE ANALYSIS
http://www.crestock.co
m/blog/design/propaga
nda-design-aestheticssoviet-retro-posters118.aspx
http://russiatrek.org/bl
og/art/sovietpropaganda-of-may-1international-workersday/
http://www.kuriositas.c
om/2013/10/the-redmenace-anticommunist.html

Assessment(s).
KWL chart on
communism/
capitalism.
The Google doc
created will be
used as a
formative.

Week.
3
25JUL
to
29JUL

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Effects of significant
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).
Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC122).
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC126).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHC128).

Content.

Pedagogies.

Resources.

Assessment(s).

Concepts.
Historical Significance.
Change & Continuity.
Evidence.
Perspective.

Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Overview of Cold War America v
USSR.
o Leaders, events, wars,
etc.
o Policies.
o Satellite wars.
o Space race, arms race.
- Introduction to Cold War in
Australia.
o Australias link to USA.
o ANZUS.

OVERVIEW OF COLD WAR

-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). After
the War Creating a New Order
pp.37-41.
-HA10 (Jacaranda): Since
WWII pp.88-91

Exit Card: one thing

I learnt, one thing I
am interested in,
one question I still
have.

Activities.
- Google Doc Jigsaw: Overview of
Cold War.
o Expanding on the key
leaders Google Doc the
students already have
access to, students will
be split up into groups
and will investigate key
policies, satellite wars
and the space/arms
race.
o They will research and
share their findings on
their topics with the
class via the Google Doc.
- Living graph timeline.
o Events in Cold War.

BERLIN BLOCKADE
-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). The
Cold War pp.52-53

Content.
Cold War: key events,
people, dates.
- Satellite wars.
- Key Australian
leaders.
- Key world leaders.
- Key Australian
events.
- Key world events.
- Policies both at
home and
internationally.
- Emergence of
ANZUS.
- Australias alliance
with the US.

http://alphahistory.com/coldwa
r/
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI

ARMS RACE
-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). The
Cold War pp.59-60
SPACE RACE
-TCH: 1945-2000 (HTAV). The
Cold War pp.65-66.
http://alphahistory.com/coldwa
r/space-race/
ANZUS
https://www.awm.gov.au/exhib
itions/korea/origins/anzus/

Source Analysis
task (political
cartoons, ANZUS
doc)? Students will
be given questions
to answer on a
document. This will
then be collected
and assessed as a
formative.

Source Analysis: Cold War in

Aus.
o ANZUS.
o Propaganda in Australia.
o Perspectives from the
time.

https://history.state.gov/milest
ones/1945-1952/anzus
SOURCE ANALYSIS
http://australianpolitics.com/19
51/09/01/anzus-treatytext.html
http://threatofcommunisim.we
ebly.com/communism-inaustralia.html

Fri 29: Year 10 excursion to Parliament House (lose period 5 class)

Week.
4
1AUG
to
5AUG

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC125).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHC128).

Content.

Pedagogies.

Concepts.
Historical Significance.
Evidence.
Perspectives.
Cause & Consequence.

Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- McCarthyism & scapegoating
period.
- Effects in Australia.
o Petrov affair.

Content.
Explaining the
influence of
McCarthyism and the
significance of the
Petrov Affair in
shaping Australian
society.
- Analysing the
causes and effects
of the Petrov
Affair.

Activities.
- Investigation into and debate on
McCarthyism and the Reds under
the Bed theory.
- Investigation into the Petrov Affair.
o Students are to explore the
MOAD website, taking
notes, listening to the audio
clips, etc. they are then to
create a concept map of all
the important aspects to
the Petrov Affiar and as a
class discuss the impact this
event had on Australian
society.
- Short Term, Long Term and Trigger
Cause and Consequence timeline.
o Students to plot out the
significant causes and
effects of the Petrov affair
on a timeline and label the
causes as either short term,
long term or trigger.

Resources.

Assessment(s).

McCARTHYISM - TCH: 19452000 (HTAV). The Cold War

pg. 58

Tweet: students to
create a fake
tweet, summing up
a perspective from
the time on the
Petrov Affair in 140
characters.

http://www.coldwar.org/arti
cles/50s/senatorjosephmcca
rthy.asp
http://www.history.com/top
ics/cold-war/josephmccarthy

Concept map and

discussion will be
used as a
formative.

http://alphahistory.com/cold
war/joseph-mccarthy/
Source analysis
DBQ used as
http://alphahistory.com/cold formative scaffold
war/cold-war-documents/
for assessment.
AUSTRALIA & THE COLD
WAR
-HA10 (Jacaranda): Since
WWII pg.92
PETROV AFFAIR
http://petrov.moadoph.gov.
au/
http://www.naa.gov.au/colle
ction/fact-sheets/fs130.aspx

Practice test will be

made available to
students to work
thro

Week.
5
8AUG
to
12AUG

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Effects of significant
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).
Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC122).
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC125).
(VCHHC128).

Content.
Concepts.
Evidence.
Perspective.
Historical Significance.
Cause & Consequence.
Content.
Cold war: effects on
Australian soil.
- Anti-communist
sentiment, fear of
domino theory,
red terror.
- Why were we so
supportive of
American foreign
policy? (Result of
WWI & WWII).

Pedagogies.

Resources.

Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
DOMINO THEORY
- Anti-communist sentiment.
-HA10 (Jacaranda): Since WWII
- Red scare, domino theory etc. pg.92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Activities.
v=Y2IcmLkuhG0
- Domino Theory task.
o Mapping the spread http://alphahistory.com/coldwar/d
of communism and
omino-theory/
the domino theory.
o Discussion into how
ANTI-COMMUNISM
this would have
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/d
contributed to the
igibook/824806/the-cold-warRed Terror and fear
%E2%80%93-1945-1991
of communism.
- Source Analysis.
http://communismthreatz.weebly.
o Various images and
com/communism-in-australia.html
documents/
perspectives/
http://the-interpretations that
threatofcommunism.weebly.com/t
look at the antihe-domino-theory.html
communist sentiment
in Australia and the
http://alphahistory.com/coldwar/c
effects this had on
old-war-propaganda/
society.
RED SCARE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5YDYfByEPAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZgiQkM-GBMI

Assessment(s).
Source analysis SAC
period p2 Thursday
11/8: Students will
be given multiple
sources (images,
documents) to
analyse. Question
structure: will have
to identify key
aspects of the
source and then
show their
knowledge of the
Cold War by
contextualising the
piece in history,
analysing why its
important, why it
is/isnt
reliable/useful, etc.
Also have
knowledge test at
the beginning.
Time given 1 hour.
Cheat sheet TBC.

http://alphahistory.com/coldwar/r
eds-under-the-bed/
Fri 12: Whole school mass @ St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne (lose period 2 class).

Week.
6
15AUG
to
19AUG

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Effects of significant
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).

Content.
Concepts.
Cause & Consequence.
Change & Continuity.
Historical Significance.
Evidence.
Perspective.

Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).

Content.
Effects on Australian
Soil: investigating how
changing political
ideologies influenced
change.
- Labors win in
1972.
- Whitlam Dismissal
in 1975.

Key Skills.
(VCHHC121).
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC126).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHC128).

Evaluating the
developments during
the Whitlam
government and the
causes of the
governments
dismissal.

Pedagogies.

Resources.

Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Federal Election 1972.
- Gough Whitlam dismissal.

https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=7bld
LwjFMqE

Activities.
- Source Analysis: Labor 1972 win.
o Students will research and analyse
various sources/ perspectives/
interpretations from the political
campaign and discuss the cause and
consequence of this event in
relation to the Cold War.
- Concept map.
o Contributing factors to the Whitlam
Dismissal.
- Using the ideas from the concept map and
further research, students will create a
Short Term, Long Term & Trigger timeline.

https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=_LH
WnxZ4ezM
GOUGH WHITLAM
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=SXq
056TJhU4
http://whitlamdismis
sal.com/documents
http://dismissed.mo
adoph.gov.au/

Assessment(s).
The concept map
created this week
will be used as a
formative.
Students to have
their HI proposal
completed and
signed off on

Week.
7
22AUG
to
26AUG

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Effects of significant
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).
Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC126).
(VCHHC128).

Content.
Concepts.
Historical Significance.
Change & Continuity.
Evidence.
Perspectives.
Content.
Vietnam
-

Pedagogies.
Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Pre-cursors to the Vietnam
War.
o Indo-French war.
- Aus involvement and LBJ
- Battle of Long Tan
Activities.
- Historical Interpretations
o Handout from the
text
- Flow chart causes of USA
involvement
- Discussion
- Source Analysis
o Troops to Vietnam
o Battle of Long Tan
- Pros & cons table Vietnam
1960 perspective
- Create posters about
perspectives on Vietnam
War using quotes & photos

Resources.
VIETNAM WAR - TCH: 1945-2000
(HTAV). New Nations: Decolonization
pp.102-107.
HA10 (Jacaranda): Since WWII
pp.94-95.

Assessment(s).

Posters created on
Vietnam War &
Battle of Long Tan
will be collected
and used as
formatives for this
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/m week.
od/modsbook47.asp
http://vietnamwar.commemoration.gov.au/
https://www.awm.gov.au/exhibition
s/impressions/aust_vietnam.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=q1vJqTN-qVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Y2IcmLkuhG0 (5:50http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.or
g/collection/87/vietnam-war

Week.
8
29AUG
to 2SEP

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Effects of significant
post-World War II
world events and
developments on
one major global
influence that
shaped change in
Australian society
(VCHHK157).
Causes and
developments of
the major global
influences on
Australia
(VCHHK158).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC121).
(VCHHC123).
(VCHHC124).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHC128).

Content.
Concepts.
Evidence.
Cause & Consequence.
Perspectives.
Historical Significance.
Content.
Vietnam- The why and
how: Australias
involvement.
- Politics, economy,
alliances, etc.
- Fears of the cold
war influenced
change in
Australian society.
- Analysing the
causes of the
Vietnam War and
its effects on
Australia.

Pedagogies.
Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Reporting to the public
- Conscription
- Protests
- End of the war, returning home &
consequences
o Nixon & Vietnamisation
Activities.
- Source analysis on reporting
(YouTube clips, newspaper articles,
photos, etc.)
- Luck of the Draw video (ABC Splash)
& worksheet
- Discussions
- Creation of pro or anti-Vietnam
propaganda posters
- Flow chart of end of Vietnam war
- Investigation into servicemen and
women experiences
o Letters, poems, photos, I was
only 19
- Timeline/Concept map causes and
consequences of Vietnam War

Resources.

Assessment(s).

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Thm03IUiJ6U

Tweet: sum up the

Australian
viewpoint on the
Vietnam War at the
time in 140
characters.

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=3R5zKW3Y1U4
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=cvbEhBKUdTQ
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=YUSo_gMu7XY
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Uy1vsgZnAkY
(2:15http://vietnamwar.commemoration.gov.a
u/public-opinion/index.php
http://www.naa.gov.au/col
lection/factsheets/fs117.aspx

Week.
9
5SEP to
9SEP

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Changing social,
cultural, historical,
economic,
environmental,
political and
technological
conditions on a
major global
influence in
Australia
(VCHHK159).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC121).
(VCHHC125).
(VCHHC126).
(VCHHC127).
(VCHHC128).

Content.
Concepts.
Content.
The end of the cold
war?
- Tearing down the
Berlin wall.
- Circumstances
that lead to the
fall of the USSR.
Politics at the time.
- Raegan &
Gorbachev.
-

Pedagogies.
Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- End of the Cold War.
- Raegan & Gorbachev.
- Fall of Iron Curtain & reunification of
Germany
- Fall of USSR
Activities.
- Research into Reagans Star Wars
- Jigsaw into resistance movements and
Soviet Satellite states/fall of USSR
-

Resources.
END OF COLD WAR TCH: 1945-2000
(HTAV). A New
World Order pp.202204.
-HA10 (Jacaranda):
Since WWII pp.9697
http://digitalarchive.
wilsoncenter.org/coll
ection/37/end-ofthe-cold-war
MIDDLE EAST
TCH: 1945-2000
(HTAV). A New
World Order pp.208216.
-HA10 (Jacaranda):
Since WWII pp.9899.
WAR ON TERROR
TCH: 1945-2000
(HTAV). A New
World Order pp.227231.
-HA10 (Jacaranda):
Since WWII pp.9798

Assessment(s).
DBQ on a
document:
students will have
to answer the
question in
paragraph form
and their pieced
will be peerassessed and
feedback given in
class.

Week.
10
12SEP
to
16SEP

Key Knowledge/
Key Skills.
Key Knowledge.
Changing social,
cultural, historical,
economic,
environmental,
political and
technological
conditions on a
major global
influence in
Australia
(VCHHK159).
Key Skills.
(VCHHC126).
(VCHHC128).

Content.
Concepts.
Content.
Aftermath of the Cold
War
- Advancements in
technology.
- Changes in
economics, social,
cultural and
political aspects of
the world but
more importantly
Australia.

Pedagogies.
Mini Lectures/PowerPoints.
- Advancements due to the cold war.
o Technology, science, math, etc.
- Repercussions today.
o War in the Middle East.
o War on terror.
o Obama & Putin.

Activities.
- Living Graph timeline.
o Students will identify 5 key things
that occurred during the Cold War
and must place them on a timeline
and rank them in accordance with
Identifying and
their importance.
evaluating the
- Discussion into USA and USSR Cold War
changes to Australia as
legacy.
a result of the political - Why is America and Russia so centralised in
crisis.
politics and peoples minds?
- Investigate a certain advancement and put
Repercussions today.
together a presentation on it.
- War in the Middle
East, war on
terrorism.
Obama V Putin.

Resources.
ADVANCEMENTS
-HA10 (Jacaranda):
Since WWII pp.
108-111.

Assessment(s).
HI research
proposal due.