This is your major research project for this semester.

There is a major booklet to help you, but essentially you need to:

• choose a topic of interest in Australia since 1918
• come up with a question that asks you to analyse or judge, not just describe (‘why’ or ‘to what extent’ rather than ‘What happened…’)
• 1200 word (max) essay with referencing

Handed out: Tuesday 15 March (Term 1, Week 7), due Thursday 2 June (Term 2, Week 5)

Major Project Task Sheet

In pairs, choose one of the following:

1. Blitzkrieg & Dunkirk
2. Battle of Britain
3. Barbarossa & Stalingrad
4. Start of Pacific War
5. Fall of Singapore
6. Battle of Midway
7. Final Solution
8. Allied victory in N Africa
9. D Day
10. Germany defeated
11. atomic bombings

Create a powerpoint with a picture or map or table and about 50 words of writing for each of these three aspects of your event:

• Explain its context or background
• Outline the Event
• What were the consequences of this event (how did it shape or alter the course of the war?)

Then, send me 2 multi choice questions that is answered in your presentation (and the answers!)

Homework from last night – what event prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor was actually the first Japanese attack in the Pacific war?

This 20 min video looks at causes, course and effects of WWII. (For some reason it starts at 2:40 or so – just scroll it back to the start)

Group work – groups assigned one of:

• short term causes of WWII in Europe (and North Africa)
• long term causes of WWII in Europe (and North Africa)
• short term causes of WWII in the Pacific
• long term causes of WWII in the Pacific

Groups’ responses:

Short Term causes of WWII in Europe

LONG TERM CAUSES OF WW2 ON EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA

Short term causes of WWII in Pacific

LONG TERM CAUSES OF WW2 IN THE PACIFIC

See also:

This powerpoint looks predominantly at events that led to the outbreak of WWII

This powerpoint looks at some of the ideological concepts:

This War in the Pacific overview of causes is pretty good.

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