Wartime Snapshots
Wartime snapshots are background information guides with teaching activities on topics of Australia’s wartime history. The wartime snapshots relate to posters developed by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and distributed for Anzac Day, Remembrance Day or to mark special commemorative anniversaries. These guides containing background information, resources, website links and teaching activities and are suitable for teachers to use to introduce or explore a theme, or encourage discussion around an image.
Download the poster and the two page Wartime Snapshot here.
No 1: The sinking of HMAS Sydney
No 2: INTERFET - International Forces for East Timor
No 3: The Flanders Poppy - a symbol of remembrance
No 4: 95th Anniversary of the landings on Gallipoli
No 5: 60th Anniversary of the Korean War
No 6: 70th Anniversary of the siege of Tobruk
No 7: 70th Anniversary of the battles for Greece and Crete
No 8: Centenary of the Royal Australian Navy
No 9: 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin
No 10: 70th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign