E01 WWII Flashcards
(17 cards)
What policy was adopted as a response to the threat of the Japanese?
SCORCHED EARTH POLICY
The destruction of anything usable by an advancing enemy
INTERNMENT
Japanese Australians were detained over rising suspicions
What were the conditions of the Kokoda Track?
Steep, muddy dense jungle with rivers and rugged mountains
What kind of strategies arose from the conditions of the Kokoda Track?
The tactical use of high ground like at Imitia Ridge and ‘Jungle Warfare’
Who was fighting at the Kokoda Track?
Young Victorian conscripts, they were barely trained, low on supplies and outnumbered by the Japanese
Who supported the Australians at the Kokoda Track?
THE 53RD MILITIA AND 7TH AIF BATALLION arrived and helped to hold the highground at Imitia Ridge. The Japanese began to run low on supplies and withdrew
THE PNG ANGELS
Carried wounded soldiers and supplies
When was the first clash at Kokoda?
July 23, they fought for 2 weeks before falling back
What left Australia exposed? What was the result?
The FALL OF SINGAPORE meant that there was no longer a ‘barrier’ between Japan and Australia
DARWIN WAS BOMBED killing 243
What happened in the Sydney Harbour? What did this result in?
2 Japanese SUBMARINES were sunk in the Harbour
There was WIDESPREAD PANIC
Who were the Coastwatchers? Who helped them?
Small groups of highly trained soldiers placed at key points along the coast who were to monitor enemy movements
Aboriginal Australians helped them make use of the land
What did the Volunteer Defence Force do? Why were they created?
Citizens were scared and wanted to take things into their own hands. The government didn’t want any extremism happening so made them ‘preserve law and order’
What were some of the increased government powers?
Curtin wanted equal burden on all people, not focussed on workers so there was:
- Rationing
- Control of wages, profits & prices
- The compelling of people to work
- Higher tax on the $$$
- Censorship
- A ban on harmful meeting
- Declaration of certain goods as exclusive and essential to war
How were kids in Australia impacted by WWII?
They had to deal with stressed families and older men in their family fighting in war. They couldn’t receive anything fun from rations at Christmas and in general
How did the fall of Berlin play out from the Eastern and Western front
WESTERN FRONT
D-DAY Landings in Normandy, June 6 1944. France is opened up and Paris is liberated on the 25th of August. Another operation in the Netherlands met with fierce German attack from Belgium, ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ in December. They advanced into Berlin from the west:
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BERLIN FALLS 30TH OF APRIL 1945
GERMANY SURRENDERS MAY 7
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Soviets enter Berlin and raise flag, Hitler commits suicide
EASTERN FRONT
What was the Holocaust?
A systematic genocide of Jewish people in Germany and Nazi-controlled territories
What was Phase 1 of the Holocaust?
Persecution
1) Jewish people boycotted and forbade to have impactful jobs.
2) They were marked and oppressed according to the Nuremberg Laws
3) Propaganda promoted hate amongst people toward Jewish people
4) Kristallnacht burnings of Jewish properties and synagogues November 9-10
What was Phase 2 of the Holocaust?
Ghettoisation
1) Concentration camps opened where minorities were given striped uniforms and identification
2) Jews were rounded up and confined to ghettos with limited food, sanitation and medical supplies
What was Phase 3 of the Holocaust?
Extermination
1) Hitler announces all Jews must be eradicated in 1941
2) Jewish people are sent to death camps in cattle trucks, stripped of any valuable possessions including hair and subjected to labour, medical experiments and ultimately, death
Around 6 MILLION Jewish people were killed
