ww2 Flashcards
(10 cards)
what was the use and function of propaganda in ww2
- designed to maintain public anger about German atrocities and idealise Australian soldiers.
- Australian propaganda posters during the Second World War (WWII) were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes
-1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment. The Ministry’s aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press.
what was The changing role of Australian women in WW2 (at home and on the warfront)
Women in the Services
* Women who entered the Services were paid at a far lower rate than their male counterparts doing exactly the same job - these jobs disappeared at the end of the war.
* The Service experience, however, did have a profoundly liberating effect on many women, who then sought jobs after the war.
* Many others, however, were happy to return to normal domestic life after the war.
The WAAAF
* The Women’s Australian Auxiliary Airforce – formed in 1941, after substantial lobbying by women who were keen to serve, and by the Chief of the Air Staff who wanted to release male personnel serving in Australia for service overseas.
* NOTE: Auxiliary means to “provide supplementary or additional help and support”.
* Jobs included technical work, communications and signal mechanics.
* Most women continued with traditional roles including cooking and cleaning. However, approximately 27,000 women joined the WAAAF.
what was The experiences of different groups of Australians during WW2
international Australians were persecuted just for being from enemy countries, white citizens had to ration food and take on extra work, aboriginal people would not be recognized as Australians and didn’t get the same respect from fighting in the army.
The key details and conditions experiences during the Kokoda campaign
- One of most difficult fighting of the war
- Fall of Singapore (15 February 1942), the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby and the Solomon Islands.
- If the Japanese took Port Moresby they could easily strike at Australia.
- In March 1942 the advancing Japanese landed at Lae in New Guinea.
- From the northern coast where the Japanese landed to Port Moresby is about 200kms, but through the middle of the Owen Stanley Range.
- This is very rugged country with dense tropical jungle, high mountain passes and many fast flowing rivers and streams. Across this difficult country is the Kokoda Track.
- The bulk of the fighting in New Guinea was done by Australian troops.
- also significant help from the indigenous New Guineans, affectionately called ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’, who acted as guides and stretcher bearers in the tropical jungle.
- . The fighting on the Kokoda Track involved almost 54,000 Australian and USA troops.
- It was Australia’s most significant land
- . It took place in tropical heat and almost constant rain, and more Australians died in New Guinea and on the Kokoda Track than in any other battle of WWII.
- disease affected thousands of troops.
- These included malaria, dysentery and dengue fever. There were food shortages and communications were difficult.
Persecution and experiences of Jewish people Concentration camps:
Concentration camps:
Jewish people in the Concentration camp were subjected to:
Unethical experimentations
Physical and mental abuse
Mass shootings /Mass murders
Gas Chambers
Starvation
Sicknesses
Examples of courage and compassion shown at this time
german and polish citizens risking their lives by smuggling jewish people and hiding them in their homes
Ghetto system (conditions, treatment, examples of ghettos)
over crowding
food shortages
random brutal attacks from soldiers
disease and sickness spread fast
Warsaw Ghetto
The impacts of the policies of assimilation
was a policy to take mostly light skin aboriginal children from their families and make them live with a white family to learn English and erase their culture
The actions and policies of the Australian government towards indigenous Australians
freedom rides
1967 referendum (for aboriginal people to be counted in the census, right to vote and be counted as citizens)
stolen generation
assimilation policy
Persecution and experiences of Jewish people Ghetto’s
Ghetto’s:
1,143 ghettos
three types of ghettos:
closed ghettos
open ghettos
destruction ghettos
1941, the Germans systematically destroyed the ghettos Killing all remaining jewish people
Jewish people in the ghettos were subjected to:
Physical and mental abuse
Mass shootings /Mass murders
Starvation
Sicknesses
