LG McPherson One in - all in 1939-1942

[Lithograph 50.8 x 63.2xcm. AWM V6766]

The opening section of the website includes a recording of Prime Minister Menzies announcing Australia's entry into the war, as well as images of the cablegrams between British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Menzies.

Bibliography

David Day, Menzies & Churchill at war: a controversial new account of the 1941 struggle for power, North Ryde, 1986.

David Horner, High Command: Australia and allied strategy, 1939-1945, Sydney, 1982.

Gavin Long, Australia in the War of 1939-1945; Series One, Army, Vol I - To Benghazi, Canberra, 1952.

Operation CLICK: Anzac to Kokoda

is a classroom resource which draws on and encourages the use of the following Veterans' Affairs websites:
• Australia’s War 1939–1945 – www.ww2australia.gov.au
• Visit Gallipoli – www.anzacsite.gov.au

You may download Work sheets - provided in PDF file format.

The resource book and CD-ROM package contains lessons that can be used in many contexts in History and Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) classrooms. They were written by experienced history teachers with three aims in mind:

• to provide both beginning and experienced teachers with lessons using the two websites as core resources
• to invite teachers to explore more effective ways of encouraging their students to incorporate ICT skills into their classroom learning activities
• to provide exciting and original lessons that will encourage young Australians to learn more about Australia’s wartime heritage through the stories and images provided on the two websites.