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PART 1: CASE STUDIES 1 Bismarck and the unification of the German states 2 Yankees and Confederates in the American states in the mid-nineteenth century 3 The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty 4 The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1880-1947 5 Decolonisation in Indochina 1945-1954 6 Nuclear testing in the Pacific, 1950s to 1960s 7 The Civil Rights Movement in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s 8 The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy PART 2: THE HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION 9 The historical investigation PRELIMINARY COURSE CORE STUDY: THE WORLD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY 10 The world at the beginning of the twentieth century PART 4: HSC COURSE CORE STUDY: WORLD WAR I 1914-1919: A SOURCE-BASED STUDY 11 War on the Western Front 12 The home fronts in Britain and Germany 13 Turning points 14 Allied Victory