VCE Australian history - units 3 & 4

Students investigate Australia’s involvement and reasons for participation in post-World War Two conflicts and the subsequent debates arising from these conflicts.

The changing reasons for Australia’s participation in conflicts was influenced by shifting alliances, fears of Communism, desires for regional security, concerns regarding terrorism and the evolving nature of enlistment and service in the military forces.

Students consider the impacts of these conflicts on groups in Australian society and the differing ways in which Australians responded. (VCE History Study Design 2022–2026 p.62)

EBooks

• Davies, Bruce Vietnam : the complete story of the Australian war
• Murray, Robert The making of Australia : a concise history
• Murphy, John Harvest of fear : a history of Australia's Vietnam War
• Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau (ed) New perceptions of the Vietnam War : essays on the war, the South Vietnamese experience, the diaspora and the continuing impact 

EBooks

• Blaxland, J. C., Kelly, M., & Higgins, L. B.  In from the cold : reflections on Australia's Korean War
• Halvorson, D. Commonwealth responsibility and Cold War solidarity : Australia in Asia, 1944-74
• Paul Dibb. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat From the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today

Articles online

• McLean, D.  From British Colony to American Satellite: Australia and the USA during the Cold War. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52(1), 64–79.

Print books

• this search will take you to a  list of books we hold on the Korean War
• this search will take you to a  list of books we hold on the Cold War

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