History Semester 1 Exam

Question 1

the branch of the United Nations responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security

Answer 1

The Security Council

Question 2

the policy of separating Aboriginals from white people

Answer 2

Segregation

Question 3

Australia’s first Minister for Immigration

Answer 3

Arthur Calwell

Question 4

Which side of Vietnam was Australia allied with during the Vietnam War?

Answer 4

South Vietnamese

Question 5

the legislation designed to restrict the immigration of ‘undesirables’

Answer 5

Immigration Restriction Act

Question 6

name of the Prime Minister whose government coined the slogan ‘populate or perish’.

Answer 6

Joseph Benedict Chifley

Question 7

Pirates often attacked people fleeing Vietnam after the war. Where did the pirates often come from?

Answer 7

Thailand

Question 8

the year the assimilation policy was officially adopted by the Commonwealth and State authorities.

Answer 8

1937

Question 9

This was the year that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified by the United Nations General Assembly

Answer 9

1948

Question 10

This Prime Minister represented Australia at the Paris Peace Conference

Answer 10

William Morris Hughes

Question 11

the state that did not attend the first Commonwealth and State ‘Aboriginal Welfare’ Conference

Answer 11

Tasmania

Question 12

the Foreign Minister responsible for getting rid of the dictation test for new immigrants to Australia?

Answer 12

Harold Holt

Question 13

Who accepted the most Vietnamese refugees?

Answer 13

United States of America

Question 14

the year the “Bringing Them Home” report was released

Answer 14

1997

Question 15

What does UNHCR stand for

Answer 15

United Nations High Commissioner for Refuges

Question 16

According to US investigations, how many people were sent to re-education camps in Vietnam following the end of the war in 1975?

Answer 16

About one million

Question 17

Where did the first boat people come from?

Answer 17

Vietnam

Question 18

In this year Australia started the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ program

Answer 18

1947

Question 19

Who was Australia’s first Prime Minister?

Answer 19

Edward Barton

Question 20

The ‘domino theory’ was concerned with the spread of what?

Answer 20

Communism

Question 21

Who or what won the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer 21

UNHCR

Question 22

When was the referendum held to change the Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to include Aborigines in the census?

Answer 22

1967

Question 23

How long did subsidised British migrants have to stay in Australia to avoid funding their return journey?

Answer 23

Two Years

Question 24

How many young people arrived in Australia under the Big Brother Movement?
About 500

Answer 24

About 500

Question 25

What was the name of Australia’s one time Attorney General, who went on to be the General Secretary of the United Nations in 1948 and 1949?

Answer 25

Herbert Evatt

Question 26

In this year the Australian Government launched the ‘Bring Out a Briton’ campaign.

Answer 26

1957

Question 27

This was the Prime Minister who formally abolished the White Australia policy.

Answer 27

Edward Gough Whitlam

Question 28

This was the year the Racial Discrimination Act was passed.

Answer 28

1975

Question 29

This is the name given to those who were forcibly taken from their families and placed into state care or with white families.

Answer 29

The Stolen Generation