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- 1The Treaty of VersaillesJune 1918
For Germany: Limited armed forces
£7million paid in reparations
Responsibility for war
Hand over Sudetenland - 2Signatories of the Treaty of VersaillesUK- Lloyd George
US- President Wilson
France- Prime Minister Clemenceau - 3Treaty of Versailles quotes“The Germans, if this government is elected, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed, until the pips squeak.”
Eric Geddes - 4The Road To WarClass system in Germany built tensions
Nazi government: anti-Weimar, anti-communist, anti-big business, SHIFTED TO anti-semitic and anti-mjarxist
Nazis wanted lebensraum. - 5World War Two1939 to 1945
- 6Hitler's rule as Chancellor of Germany1933 to 1945
- 7The Pacific WarDecember 1941 to August 1945
- 8The Bombing of Pearl HarbourDecember 1945
By the Japanese to destry naval military - 9Australia Joins The War1939
As part of the Commonwealth, Australia joined the war effort when Great Britian joined the war. - 10George Menzies on joining the warFellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially, that in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her and that, as a result, Australia is also at war. No harder task can fall to the lot of a democratic leader than to make such an announcement.
- 11Wave Hill Walk Off1966
Lead by Vincent Langari
Strike by Gurindjiri cattle station workers and their families
Initially about workers' rights - 12Outcome of the Wave Hill Walk Off1975
Prime Minister Gough Witlem handed over Wave Hill Station land to Gurindjiri people - 13Stolen Generation ApologyFebruary 2008
Prime Minister KRudd in his second week of parliament
Apologised for Stolen Generation and promoted political campaign for Closing The Gap - 14Aboriginal Citizenship Referendum1967
Include Aboriginal people in the census
90% yes vote - 15Stolen Generation1900s to 1970s
Aboriginal children taken away from the families to breed out the Aboriginal 'race'
To save them from neglect from parents - 16Stolen Generation QuoteI grew up feeling alone, a black girl in a white world, and I resented them for trying to make me white but they couldn't wash away thousands of years of dreaming.—Aunty Rhonda Collard, member of the Stolen Generations
- 17Australian Prisoners of Warover 30,000 POWs
22,000 during Pacific War by Japanese - 18American soldiers in AustraliaOne million Yankee servicemen passed through Australia
Changed foreign relations with America - 19Enemy Aliens12,000 internees
Racial profiling on Italians, German, Japanese
Political unrest between prisoners led to murder - 20Sandakan Death MarchAustralian POWs in Japaese hands
2,000 men
Six survivors
260 kilometres - 21The Fall Of SingaporeSurrendered to the Japanese
February 1942
130,000 allied troops captured
15,000 Australians^ - 22John Curtain after The Fall Of SingaporeI make it clear that Australia looks to America, free of...our traditional links of kinship with the United Kingdom
- 23Home FrontRationing, Volunteer Defense Force,
Censorship, Coast Guard
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