AUSTRALIA AT WAR

Who was Australia's Prime Minister in September 1939?

• R.G.Menzies

• John Curtin

• John Howard

• Ben Chifley

Who became Prime Minister of Australia in October 1941?

• R.G.Menzies

• John Curtin

• Arthur Fadden

• Winston Churchill

Who was the Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific after 1942?

• John Curtin.

• Douglas MacArthur

• F.D. Roosevelt

• General Tojo

What event, that will "live in infamy", took place on Dec 7th 1941?

• Germany invaded Poland

• Australia declared war on Japan

• The Fall of Singapore

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

Singapore fell to the Japanese in

• February 1942

• December 1941

• August 1945

The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in

• August 1945

• April 1945

Which political party was led by John Curtin in 1941?

• The Australian Labour Party

• The Liberal Party

• The Country Party

• The United Australia Party

Which political party was led by R.G.Menzies in 1939?

• The Liberal Party

• The Australian Labour Party

• The United Australia Party

• The Country Party

The practice of limiting the amount of particular goods and services that a person can obtain is called

• rationing.

• reducing supply.

• unfair.

• price controls

War bonds were

• designed to reduce spending during the war.

• a form of saving whereby civilians lent money to the govt.

• restrictions placed on workplaces.

• money deposited in the bank during the war.