| A | B |
|---|
| AANWS | Australian Army Medical Women's Service |
| AANS | Australian Army Nursing Service |
| AIF | 2nd Australian Imperial Force |
| AMF | Australian Military Forces |
| anti-Semitism | hatred against Jews |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to demands of aggressive powers |
| AWAS | Australian Women's Army Service |
| axis | alliance of countries to coordinate foreign policies and military action |
| blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| fascism | government with a strong centralized control |
| genocide | deliberate destruction of a race of people |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| RAAF | Royal Australian Air Force |
| RAN | Royal Australian Navy |
| WRANS | Women's Royal Australian Naval Service |
| El Alamein | Australian 9th Division forces fought here in October 1942 |
| Greece | Australians were forced to retreat from here to Crete |
| Syria | Australians fought here in June 1941 and captured many forts and defeated the French Foriegn Legion |
| Tobruk | Australian soldiers fought against the German Afrika Corp to prevent them advancing on the Persian oil fields |
| Japan | this country entered the war when the bombed Pearl Harbour in December 1941 |
| Malaya | When Japanese troops landed here Australia looked to America for help |
| Singapore | British troops surrendered to the Japanese here in February 1942 |
| mini-subs | two of these were found in Sydney Harbour |
| bombed | this happened to Darwin in February 1942 |
| Timor | Australian troops here had to surrender to the Japanese in January 1942 |
| Sparrow Force | the group of Australians who continued using guerilla warfare against the Japanese on Timor |
| Curtin | Prime Minister of Australia in World War II |
| Kokoda | the track in New Guinea where Australians fought against the Japanese |
| Port Morseby | The administrative centre of Papua where two inexperienced Australian militia brigades fought against the Japanese |
| Milne Bay | Australians gained their first victory over the Japanese here in 1943 |
| 6000 | number of casualties suffered by Australian troops fighting against the Japanese in Papua |
| militia | group of soldiers who were mainly conscripts formed to defend Australia |
| coastwatchers | people involved in watching the coastal regions and providing information on the movement of the Japanese |
| cruisers | class of ships: HMAS Australia and HMAS Canberra |
| Bartolomeo | Italian ship sunk by the Sydney, a light cruiser |
| Kormoran | German ship sunk along with the HMAS Sydney of the WA coast |
| Waterhen | Australian ship sunk by German dive bombers on 29th June 1941 |
| HMAS Perth | Australian ship sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the Battle of Sundra Strait Feb 20 1942 |
| Timor Sea | where the HMAS Armidale was sunk after being attacked by Japanese planes |
| Kittyhawk | aircraft used by the RAF in 1943 and 1944 to fight the Japanese in the Papuan campaign |
| Burma | place where Australian prisoners of war were forced to work on a railway for the Japanese |
| Sandakan | Australian POWs were used to build this airfield in North Borneo where many were killed |
| factories | women worked in these producing weapons and other war materials |
| Land Army | formed in 1942 to organise women to work on farms and in the bush |
| MacArthur | US general sho commanded the Pacific forces |
| censorship | government control over the media, including newspapers and the radio |
| conscription | forced military service |
| rationing | government control over the allocation of goods |
