U4 AOS1 DATES

Question 1

Australia’s declaration of support for Britain in the WW1

Answer 1

5 AUGUST 1914

Question 2

The War Precautions Act 1914

Answer 2

29 OCTOBER 1914

Question 3

Gallipoli landing, a key event in the formation of a national identity

Answer 3

25 APRIL 1915

Question 4

The Aborigines Amending Protection Act 1915 which gave the NSW Aborigines Protection Board the power to remove any Indigenous child at any time + for any reason.

Answer 4

6 SEPTEMBER 1915:

Question 5

1st referendum on conscription fails

Answer 5

28 OCT 1916

Question 6

Some 100,000 workers join the Great Strike mainly in NSW but also in VIC

Answer 6

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1917 IN AUSTRALIA

Question 7

Existing restrictions on Indigenous Australians serving in the armed forces were relaxed, allowing ‘half-castes’ to serve

Answer 7

OCTOBER 1917

Question 8

South Australia’s Nomenclature Act permits the changing on place names that sound German

Answer 8

8 NOVEMBER 1917

Question 9

The second referendum on conscription fails

Answer 9

20 DECEMBER 1917

Question 10

The Armistice brings an end to fighting

Answer 10

11 NOVEMBER 1918:

Question 11

Paris Peace Conference where Hughes represents Australia rather than Britain and refuses to support Japan’s demands for a racial equality clause in the League of Nations Covenant

Answer 11

1919

Question 12

Unemployment in Australia increases from 5.9% to 11%

Answer 12

1914

Question 13

Feminist-pacifist Eleanor Moore founds the Sisterhood of International Peace in Melbourne and Vida Goldstein founds the Women’s Peace Army, also in Melbourne

Answer 13

1915

Question 14

The Aborigines Act forces Indigenous people to live on reserves. This was an Act consolidating the law relating to ‘Aboriginal Natives of Victoria’, passed by the Victorian parliament

Answer 14

6 September 1915

Question 15

Some 2000 Australian workers join the radical party, Industrial Workers of the World

Answer 15

1916

Question 16

Expecting international war, Australia begins the process of building up its armed forces

Answer 16

1937

Question 17

Prime Minister Menzies announces to the nation that Australia has declared war on Germany

Answer 17

3 September 1939

Question 18

Formation of the Volunteer Defence Corps

Answer 18

July 1940

Question 19

The first Australian troops depart for service with the British in the Middle East

Answer 19

January 1940

Question 20

Labor politician John Curtin becomes Prime Minister

Answer 20

7 October 1941

Question 21

The Battle of Singapore, ending in its capture by the Japanese

Answer 21

7-15 February 1942

Question 22

Bombing of Darwin and other cities by Japanese planes + United States establishes the South-West Pacific Area, and uses Australia as a base for its troops

Answer 22

19 February 1942

Question 23

Australia’s armed forces are placed under the command of General Douglas MacArthur

Answer 23

18 April 1942

Question 24

Australia suffers a total of 97 Japanese raids

Answer 24

1942–1943

Question 25

Germany surrenders to the Allies in WW2

Answer 25

7-9 May 1945

Question 26

Following John Curtin’s death Ben Chifley is elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, and becomes Prime Minister of Australia

Answer 26

13 July 1945

Question 27

Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan’s surrender

Answer 27

6 and 9 August 1945