Federal and state governments advanced post-war reconstruction plans. Throughout and beyond the war there was a clamour of ideas about how the post-war years might be different. In addition however, they had to meet the challenges of coping with a large military presence and a busy railway and road crossing place. They worried about absent loved ones they endured the forced austerity of the war years they struggled with drought and economic uncertainty. Townspeople in Wodonga experienced the war on the home front in much the same ways as people did in small country towns elsewhere. It traces some of ways war insinuated itself into everyday life, upsetting established ways of thinking about gender and race/ethnic differences. It shows the local implications of post-war planning. The essay explains how the unprecedented national emergency of total war called on all the resources of the town and its countryside. Part 2: The Impact of the Second World War on Wodonga and its surrounds Cross river places linked to war-time and post-war Wodonga.Moving from war to peace, Wodonga, 1945-1949.For students, they build on the notion within the National History Curriculum that ‘history is all around us’. They locate war and post-war related stories in what was visible during the 1940s. It looks to the ways war proved a catalyst for change in Wodonga and its surrounds, by providing place memory prompts, access to trigger stories and an accompanying four-part essay.įor general readers the memory places prompt a feel for place. This online exhibition was prepared to mark the 75 th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. THE IMPACT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR ON WODONGA AND ITS SURROUNDS
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