YEAR TEN HISTORY: WWii

HIGHER-ORDER

THINKING BOOKLET Name:

Class:

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Fill out the grid, then answer the question.

CHARACTERISTIC #1: Australia before the war #2: Australia after the war

Women in the workforce

Australia’s international

relations with Britain and

the USA

How much change or continuity was there between #1 and #2?

CAUSE AND EFFECT Event: Hitler and the Nazis gaining power in Germany in 1933

Put an X inside the triangle to indicate the extent to which the event/trend was influenced by these three factors.

The closer the X is to one of the three factors, the more you think that factor was influential.

Explanation:

Why did you place the X where you did?

What role did each of these factors play?

Social Forces or Conditions:

Individual(s) involved: Groups involved:

SIGNIFICANCE A historian Geoffrey Partington has a model of significance. He says that something is significant (important) based

on these five things:

• importance – to people living at the time

• profundity – how deeply people's lives were affected

• quantity – how many lives affected

• durability – for how long people affect did

• relevance – to the present

With your topic “The Holocaust”, complete this significance graphic organiser:

How important was it to people living at the time?

How deeply were people’s lives affected?

How many lives were affected?

For how long were people affected?

How relevant is it to the present?

PERSPECTIVES Using the sources provided, explain how the perspectives behind them are different.

There are voices which assert that the bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas. ... I am surprised that very worthy people—but people who in most cases had no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves—should adopt the position that rather than throw this bomb, we should have sacrificed a million American and a quarter of a million British lives.

— Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition, in a speech to the British House of Commons, August 194

Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his memoir The White House Years:

In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives

How are these perspectives different? Back up your answer with evidence from the text.

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CHRONOLOGY Put these events in the correct order with dates on the timeline.

Japan surrenders

Japan attacks Pearl Harbour

Germany announces rearmament

Germany invades Poland

Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

Germany overruns Northwest Europe

Germany surrenders

Hitler annexes Sudetenland

Germany invades USSR

Nazis gain power in Germany

USA drops atomic bombs on Japan

BRAINSTORM → MIND-MAP Using the list of words below, try and put as many of them as you can into a mind map. A mind map organises a

concept into sub-groups, and sub-groups of those subgroups.

Brainstorm words:

Pearl Harbour

kamikaze

Kokoda

Churchill

Nagasaki

nuclear bomb

D-Day

Operation Barbarossa

tank

machine gun

death

casualty

Allies

Axis

Adolf Hitler

Hermann Göring

The Holocaust

Warsaw Ghetto

Auschwitz

gas chamber

home front

conscription

submarine

U-boat

Mind map

IMAGE SEARCH These images all have something in common, what is it?