AC9HH10K02
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH10K02 | Year 10 History: Second World War
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the places where Australians fought, and their perspectives and experiences during the Second World War, such as the fall of Singapore, prisoners of war (POWs), the Battle of Britain and Kokoda
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Second World War
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying places where Australians fought, such as North Africa (including Tobruk), Darwin, New Guinea (including Kokoda), Malaya and Singapore, and evaluating their significance
- • Elaboration investigating the significance of Kokoda as the battle that halted the Japanese advance on Port Moresby and why it helped reinforce the Anzac legend
- • Elaboration comparing the experiences of various prisoners of war (POWs), such as the treatment of Australian POWs under German and Japanese control
- • Elaboration examining the perspectives of particular groups of POWs, such as those in camps in Ambon or Rabaul, those used as forced labour on the Thai–Burma Railway, or army nurses captured in Singapore
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