Australia 1930s to 1950s

Question 1

Prime Minister who led the UAP and succeeded Scullin

Answer 1

Joseph Lyons

Question 2

Measures taken in WWII which described the idea of living frugally

Answer 2

Austerity

Question 3

Directorate established in January 1942 to allocate labour on the basis of the war need

Answer 3

Manpower

Question 4

US General who led the Allied war effort in the Pacific from 1942

Answer 4

Douglas McArthur

Question 5

Site of Japanese midget submarine attack in 1942

Answer 5

Sydney Harbour

Question 6

Australian Prime Minister at the start of WWII

Answer 6

Robert Menzies

Question 7

Political party created by Menzies in 1944

Answer 7

Liberal Party

Question 8

Prime Minister who preceded John Curtin

Answer 8

Arthur Fadden

Question 9

Year in which a referendum was held on the question of banning the Communist Party

Answer 9

1951

Question 10

The year of the Petrov Affair

Answer 10

1954

Question 11

The Chifley government attempted to nationalize these two key institutions

Answer 11

banks and airlines

Question 12

First major region of Australian military involvement in WWII

Answer 12

North Africa

Question 13

Curtin diverted Australian troops bound for this part of the British Empire in 1942

Answer 13

Burma

Question 14

Year in which the ANZUS alliance was created

Answer 14

1951

Question 15

This Libyan port was famously defended by Australians in 1941 for 242 days

Answer 15

Tobruk

Question 16

The peak year and level of unemployment in Australia

Answer 16

1932 and 32%

Question 17

The most radical Plan proposed in Australia to deal with the depression

Answer 17

Lang Plan

Question 18

British Bank representative sent to Australia to advise the Scullin government

Answer 18

Sir Otto Niemeyer

Question 19

Economic approach taken by the Premier’s Plan

Answer 19

deflationary or conservative

Question 20

Key institution which would not support the Theodore Plan, resulting in its failure

Answer 20

Commonwealth Bank

Question 21

New Guardsman who upstaged the opening of the Sydney harbor Bridge

Answer 21

Captain de Groot

Question 22

Leader of the New Guard

Answer 22

Eric Campbell

Question 23

The key ALP figure who led the defence of the Communist Party banned in 1950

Answer 23

H.V. Evatt

Question 24

Immigration Minister of 1947 who oversaw the major migration programme and famously stated ‘Two Wongs don’t make a White’

Answer 24

Arthur Calwell

Question 25

Commanded the Australian Army in WWII

Answer 25

General Blamey

Question 26

Where thousands of Australian servicemen taken prisoner in 1942 in infamous surrender

Answer 26

Singapore

Question 27

Treasurer for most of the Scullin government

Answer 27

E.G. Theodore

Question 28

Organisation created as a front for the Communist party at the height of the depression

Answer 28

Unemployed Workers' Movement

Question 29

WA voters chose this course of action regarding the federation in 1933

Answer 29

secession

Question 30

The industry which recovered earliest and strongest after 1932

Answer 30

secondary or manufacturing

Question 31

Trade agreement signed in 1932 to preference Empire trading partners

Answer 31

Ottawa

Question 32

Key Australian institution created in 1932 and responsible for most radio news and significant entertainment programme

Answer 32

ABC

Question 33

Significant female author of the 1920s to 1940s who often wrote on the fate of the oppressed

Answer 33

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Question 34

Controversial cricket Test series of 1932-33 where the English tested the loyalty of Australians

Answer 34

Bodyline

Question 35

Key international tennis series of the period in which Australia was highly successful

Answer 35

Davis Cup

Question 36

Australian Attorney General in 1938 who used the Transport Workers Act to allow shipments of pig iron to Japan to proceed

Answer 36

Robert Menzies

Question 37

The UAP-UCP alliance ended because of conflict between these two leaders in 1939

Answer 37

Menzies and Page

Question 38

Australian version of the British Home Guard created in 1940 and was initially made up of former servicemen

Answer 38

Volunteer Defence Corps

Question 39

Scene of the most bitter fighting by Australian forces in New Guinea

Answer 39

Kokoda

Question 40

Key women's organization in farming during WW2

Answer 40

Australian Women's Land Army

Question 41

Year in which the Commonwealth government took over income tax powers

Answer 41

1942

Question 42

Key government department established in December 1942 devoted to reshaping Australian society and economy after WW2

Answer 42

Department of Postwar Reconstruction

Question 43

Slogan which encapsulated the democratic socialism of the ALP under Chifley

Answer 43

Light on the Hill

Question 44

Three social welfare benefits introduced by the ALP governments of 1945

Answer 44

unemployment, funeral and sickness

Question 45

Number of hours in the working week ruled on by the Commonwealth Arbitration Court in 1947

Answer 45

40

Question 46

Female wages raised to this level of male wage in 1949

Answer 46

75%

Question 47

Most ambitious and large scale infrastructure scheme introduced till that point in 1949

Answer 47

Snowy River scheme

Question 48

Term used to describe the process required of new migrants coming to Australia throughout the period in terms of adjusting to Australian life

Answer 48

assimilation

Question 49

Chief Executive of BHP and Director of Munitions in WW2

Answer 49

Essington Lewis

Question 50

Leader of the 'Catholic Social Movement'

Answer 50

Bob Santamaria

Question 51

Year of peak membership of Communist Party of Australia

Answer 51

1943

Question 52

Term coined by the Chifley government to drive acceptance and need for high levels of immigrants

Answer 52

Populate or Perish

Question 53

Commonwealth government legislation of 1947 which confirmed power of government to legislate on all social welfare matters

Answer 53

Social Services Consolidation Act

Question 54

Government airline established in 1946

Answer 54

TAA (Trans Australia Airlines)