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Australians at War

With the camera at Anzac

An online photographic album of the Australian soldiers at Gallipoli is freely available on the National Archive of Australia's website. This album contains 41 views of Anzac Beach and the surrounding hills and gullies taken in 1915. The photographs capture Gallipoli through the eyes of the digger.

Where in the world have Australians served?
http://www.ryebuck.com.au/anzac_staging/anzac_junior_staging/world/#
Explore this interactive map to work out where in the world Australian
servicemen and service women have served in both peace and war. It is part
of the ANZAC Adventures Series of Interactives produced by Ryebuck Media.

Australia's War 1939-1945
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/
Australia's War 1939-1945 is under progressive development in the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. It covers all aspects of the war that involved Australians. There are images, sound, stories, maps, cartoons, and images. The website was produced in collaboration with the New South Wales Board of Studies.

Defence of Australia WWII:
World War II 1939-1945: What happened during the war? An overview
http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww2/overview/ww2-00.html


Second World War 1939-1945
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/ww2.htm


Australian Bureau of Statistics - Australians at War
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/ABS@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/

b6b3a1a383e1d25bca2569de0020330c!OpenDocument


Australian Timeline 1918-1948
http://worldatwar.net/timeline/australia/18-48.html


Women's Services in World War 2
http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/activities/women/women01.html 


    World War II 1939-1945: Home Front: National Independence
http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww2/homefront/independence.html


World War II 1939-1945: The Australian Home Front during World War 2 (Links)
http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww2/homefront/index.html


Crisis at home and abroad
http://john.curtin.edu.au/manofpeace/crisis.html


All parties could learn from Curtin
http://old.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/opinion/opinion3.html


A Map to Paradise Road
http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j32/nelson.htm


Australia: A nation changes direction (Go down to heading: World War 2
threatens)
http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn13/behindhdl.html


Place in the world: Looking to America
http://www.belonging.org/place/placeworld/cable.html


No prisoners - 4 Corners report, 11/3/02
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/archives/2002a_Monday11March2002.htm


Remembering 1942
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/remembering1942/singapore/transcript.htm


Japanese Landings in Australia in World War 2
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/japsland/japsland.htm


Fall of Singapore
http://library.thinkquest.org/12405/16.htm   

  http://socialstudies.unitecnology.ac.nz/gallipoli_webquest/teacher_resources.htm

New Zealand Year 9 level
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/socialscience/curriculum/SSOL/gallipoli/index_e.php

 

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