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'.
This lesson covers
- C01-U3E1 Australia in 1918, World War I and National Identity