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Lesson · Year 12 - Modern History (ATAR)

World War I, Conscription and the Anzac Legend

World War I and its impact on Australia. Reasons for going to war as individuals and as a nation; the effects of enlistment, wartime government controls and propaganda; the role of women; the conscription debate, the role of Billy Hughes and the resulting split in the Labor Party; social divisions and economic impact; and the growth of nationalism through mateship and the Anzac legend, including contested views of the legend and the exclusion of groups from the idea of 'mateship'.

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