Australia and World War 2: Help with Class work

Section 1

Exercise 1

Section 2

Exercise 1: Alternate question

Give the reasons Australians enlisted in the armed services when
World War 2 broke out. Why might some people have been reluctant to enlist?

Exercise 3 - Suggested format
Write 4 or 5 paragraphs, one in answer to each of the following questions:

Alternate model

Section 2 Exercise 3

Opening paragraph: Outline what you are going to write about Note the sample opening paragraph opposite.	Sir William Dean says that soldiers from both the Gallipoli campaign and the siege of Tobruk displayed the qualities, which go to make up our ANZAC spirit because in both cases the Australian soldiers showed "courage and endurance, and duty, and mateship, and good humour and the survival of a sense of self-worth in the face of overwhelming odds."
Paragraph 2	Brief background on Gallipoli and Tobruk (What, where, when info)
Paragraph 3	We know that many of the qualities described by Sir William Dean were displayed by Australian soldiers during the Gallipoli campaign. ( a possible opening sentence ) Find and write about examples from Gallipoli that illustrate some of these qualities. Include something of what William Dean said about the battles.
Paragraph 4	More information on Gallipoli
Paragraph 5	Similar qualities were displayed by Australian soldiers during the siege of Tobruk. (a possible opening sentence ) Find and write about examples from the siege of Tobruk that illustrate some of these qualities. Include something of what Sir William Dean said about the siege.
Paragraph 6	More information on Tobruk
Paragraph 7 This will be your conclusion. Do not include any new information. See sample opposite.	Thus, Sir William Dean is able to compare the Gallipoli campaign and the siege of Tobruk because, although they were different types of warfare in different ward, in both of these actions, the Australian soldiers involved displayed similar qualities, qualities which make up the Anzac Spirit

Section 3 - War in the Pacific

Exercise 2
Include this information

 

Exercise 3

Further instruction: Refer to the chart on the wall and to body language, facial expression and tone of voice.

Consider:

Further Guidance on Exercise 3

When you are answering questions about the use of a source to an historian, you need to look at:

Sample answer

This cartoon was published in The Bulletin, an Australian newspaper, in 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbour and perhaps after the fall of Singapore. The media, during wars, usually supports the government and is strictly censored. This cartoon shows Churchill as being out of touch with the situation in Australia where Japan is about to invade. This point is emphasised by the caption. Curtin is very conscious of the danger. Perhaps the purpose of this cartoon is to make Australians aware of the necessity of Curtin's policy of turning away from our traditional dependence on Britain towards the USA. An historian could use this cartoon as evidence of the attitude the government wanted the Australian people to have

Section 4 The War Hits Home

Section 6 Overpaid, Oversexed and Over Here

Exercise 2

Sample answer
American soldiers were paid nearly twice the Australian soldiers' wages. This caused conflict because US soldiers spent a lot of money and became the preferred customers at shops and of taxi-drivers, as well as the preferred customers of women. At a time of shortages, this big spending was resented.

Many Australian husbands, boyfriends or men of an eligible age were serving overseas. Australian women were happy to receive attention from US troops - especially as the Americans dressed well, were better off, were more sophisticated and well mannered. Australian soldiers, in their jealousy, labelled them "oversexed".

There were, by mid 1943, around 250,000 American soldiers in Australia - they were certainly "over here' in big numbers. The influx of 90,000 Americans into Brisbane in 1942 (Brisbane was then quite a small city) caused a number of brawls with Australians, including the "Battle of Brisbane".

Exercise 3
Sample Answer
The presence of the black GIs was a big threat to the White Australia Policy because, since Federation, the Australian Government had successfully prevented "non-white" immigration to Australia. There were real concerns about possible attempts by the black soldiers to settle in Australia after the war, marrying white women and producing children of mixed colour. The Australians were scared because they had never experienced living with "non-white" immigrants. They were concerned about things such as sharing public toilets, sharing drinking fountains and they were even worried about black men using white prostitutes.
To alleviate concerns from the public and ensure the black men were segregated from the white community, many were sent into the outback to work on building roads and airstrips.

Section 7: Experiences in War

Exercise 1

Alternate question:
What do these primary sources show about the role of Australian women in World War 2?