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