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HASS10 Australia and World War II: Significant Events

Australian War Memorial [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C385033

Pacific Theatre

Click through this timeline to better understand how the Axis and Allies engaged in conflict throughout the Pacific between 1935 and 1945.

National Geographic. (2020). World War II in the Pacific. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/world-war-ii-pacific/

The Holocaust Museum: World War II in the Pacific

Shifting Tides: Australia and the Pacific in the Second World War
This introduces students to significant campaigns in the Allies' war against Japan in Asia and the Pacific, as well as the effects on Australia.

Pearl Harbour

ThoughtCo: Causes of WWII in the Pacific

Thought Co. The Path to Pearl Harbour. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor

Battle of Kokoda

Fall of Singapore

Australia