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The Making of the Modern World, Depth Study 3: Australians at war (World Wars I and II): World War I

Students investigate key aspects of World War I and the Australian experience of the war, including the nature and significance of the war in world and Australian history.

Teacher resources

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NSW History Teacher's suggested links

Source: http://www.htansw.asn.au/

Australian War Memorial

During the First World War, Australian troops were officially encouraged to collect relics of the battles in which they had fought. This web site makes some of those collections accessible on-line to everyone for the first time.

National archives
 

This collection constitutes the archives of the Commonwealth government and allows access to those records created since the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901and other significant nineteenth-century records relating to the colonies at the time of Federation.

 

Covers Australia's involvement in seven major wars over the past 100 years - from the Boer War to the Vietnam War and recent overseas peacekeeping effort
 
 
Details Australia's role in the wars of the 20th century and especially Gallipoli and World War One 

Clickview resources

Not forgotten  /  written, produced & directed by Jane Jeffes.  (2008)

To mark Remembrance Day, SBS screens this poignant documentary presented by Mark Lee (best known to audiences as the young lead in the 1981 feature film "Gallipoli"). Mark takes the memorials of WW1 as his starting point, and researches individual stories to turn names and statistics into people with faces and personal histories.

Monash the forgotten Anzac /  director, Malcolm McDonald ; producer, John Moore.  (2008)

It is the story of an unlikely hero; a middle aged German Jew with great self-belief who fought not just the German army but those on his own side who used his heritage to undermine him.

Causes of World War 1

Causes of world war one. Using archival footage back to 1896, and computer animation, this program investigates the causes of "The Great War". It examines the three "isms" - Militarism, Nationalism and Imperialism, as well as the Alliance system and the fall of Bismarckian Diplomacy, the July Crisis and the Schlieffen Plan.

Australians at war - Episode two (Who'll come a-fighting The Kaiser with me?)

Episode Two of Australians at War looks behind the legend of this, our first real test of war, and by using the words of the men who fought and died there, puts a human face on a great Australian symbol.All the men who initially landed on 25 April 1915 are now gone, but their letters, diaries and journals remain; the despair, endurance and horror they experienced clinging to them still.

Digital resources on WW1

ABC Splash videos

Source: http://splash.abc.net.au/home

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Learning Objects from Scootle

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