Popular Culture
Name some famous music artists of the 1950's (at least 2)
Elvis Presley
Johhny O Keefe
Bill Haley and the Comets
Col Joye
Ruth Brown
What day is Remembrance Day on and why?
11th November - it is the anniversary of the armistice of WW1
Name the European battle front that featured trench warfare in World War One.
The Western Front
Identify 2 weapons used in the First World War
Explain the difference between a primary and a secondary source
Primary - created at the time
Secondary - created afterwards
What are 2 of the 4 distinguishing characteristics of Popular Culture
● The ability to move from local to international significance
● Having commercial products associated with them
● The ability to change and evolve over time
● People having wide access to them
Why was the calvary less important?
Once trenches were dug cavalry became too vulnerable to artillery and machine guns.
What was the name of the fungal foot condition often suffered by soldiers in trench warfare?
Trench foot
Identify the member nations of the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance.
Entente - France, Russia & England
Alliance - Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy
What actor plays Ken in the 2023 blockbuster movie "Barbie?"
Ryan Gosling
Define popular culture
Usually referred to the shared values, beliefs, ideas, customs, artefacts, and social behaviour that help give meaning to a group of people that are joined together in a society.
What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany?
Germans hated the treaty
Harsh financial penalties - inflation and economic Depression, unemployment
Being punished
Rise of Hitler - promised to abolish the treaty
What were TWO examples of living conditions in Gallipoli
Fleas and Lice
Boredom
Hot climate
Dead bodies
Disease
Lack of water
How many Australian soldiers were killed during World War One?
61,000 approximately
Which astronomer is called out in “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
Galileo
Name some major technological advancements in the 1950's
Television
International travel - Qantas jets
Household appliances
Portable radios
Explain 2 factors that contributed to the ENDING of WW1
Allies of Germany surrended
Kaiser Wilhem II abdicated - Germany became a republic
Germany faced starvation, civil war
What does it mean to go 'over the top'?
As soon as the barrage stopped, attacking troops would go 'over the top' - that is, climb out of their trenches. It was now a race between them and the defenders, who had to emerge from their shelters and set up their machine guns before the attackers got over the barbed wire of no man's land.
What was the reason/s for the Gallipoli Campaign
In an attempt to break stalemate, Churchill (in charge of the Royal Navy) argued for an attack on Turkey. Dardanelles Strait was protected on both sides by forts and mobile artillery batteries, and by mines - land invasion to capture the Gallipoli peninsula.
How many teachers are in the History Faculty?
6
Outline some of the changes in Post War Australia
Increasing leisure time
Expanding suburbia
Baby boom
Post war boom - continual rise in living standards, increasing prosperity
Increase in American influences
Name 3 conditions of the Treaty of Versailles - be specific
Germany accepts responsibility
Germany is banned from forming a union with Austria
Germany’s army reduced to 100,000 men, no submarines, no airplanes, 36 ships (6 battleships)
Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine to France; kept the Rhineland but had to stay demilitarized
Reparations
What the impact of posion gas in trench warfare?
The Germans released chlorine which wafted on the wind across no man’s land into the British trenches.
Mustard gas, which had a perfumed smell but which burned, blinded or slowly killed the victims over four to five weeks.
Soldiers in the trenches would carry their gas masks with them all the time.
The main significance of gas was there its psychological impact. Soldiers who could bear a long bombardment by artillery often lived in fear of a gas attack.
Name 3 reasons Australians enlisted for WWI
The belief it would be a short war, they would be ‘home by Christmas’;
Loyalty to ‘the mother country’;
A heroic and exciting adventure;
Opportunity to leave home and see the world;
Guaranteed income was motivating;
Hatred of the enemy became a motivation for enlistment.
Propaganda stories (often exaggerated) of German atrocities were used in recruiting campaign.
What is the name of the popular Netflix series about chess that premiered in 2020?
Queen’s Gambit