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24 Cards in this Set
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World War 2 dates |
- Started 1939 - Ended 1945 |
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Treaty Of Versailles countries involved |
- Britain, France, Italy and USA |
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Treaty Of Versailles Terms |
- War guilt: Germany had to take blame for the war - Reparations: Germany had to pay compensation to France, Belgium and Britain - Germany's armed forces: Were limited to 100,000 men.Compulsory joining was banned - Germans Territories and Colonies: Germany lost all overseas colonies - League of the nations: was set up and Germany could not join until it was a peaceful nation |
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The Roaring 20's |
- Women started to gain more rights - More females started working - Flappers - Period of great optimism and progress |
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The League of the Nations |
- Formed after ww1 - Was made to help keep peace and prevent another war. - The main power of the league was France and Britain. |
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The Great Depression |
- Started in 1929 and ended in 1939 - Was a massive blow to the Australian economy - Many people couldn't afford anything - Women resorted in prostitution - Children dropped out of school - Suicide and Crime rate where extremely high |
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Singapore and Pearl Harbour |
- Dec 7th 1941: Japanese air raid on pearl harbour - Dec 8th 1941: Singapore was bombed - Same day: Japanese landed forces on Malaya - Feb 19th 1942: Darwin was bombed - May 31st 1942: Submarine attack at Sydney Harbour |
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Indigenous Australian during WW2 |
- During WW2: Very little aboriginal were able to enlist in the war. During the this time they we still excluded from society - After: When soldiers came back they were offered housing and other luxuries for their service but Aboriginals were given nothing not even recognised |
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Australias Alliances |
- Allies means to be cooperating with another military. - Allies: Britain, USA, Australia, France - Other: Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia |
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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights |
- The UDHR was created to implement rule that all of society must abide by to keep all nations at peace. - Taken over by the UN of 10th of December 1948 |
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Martin Luther King |
- Was a civil rights activist in the African- American civil rights movement. - He was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. - Was famous for the "I have a dream speech" |
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The Stolen Generation |
- Occurred in the 1970's - Was the removal of lighter skin aboriginals to live in foster and mission homes until 18 when they live in "white society" - Many children were stolen and abused. - Example is the Sapphires |
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The 1967 Referendum |
- Harold Holt created the idea - The Referendum which was proposed to include aboriginal people in the census and allow the commonwealth government to make laws for aboriginal people. - Took place on May 20th 1967 - 90% of Australian agreed but it took 5 years for actions to occur. |
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Eddie Mabo Case |
- The aboriginals won rights to their original land and in 1993 native title was created. |
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Wave Hill Walkout |
- On the 23rd of August 1966 was a walk of in response to the British Vestey Companies refusal to pay pastoral worker $25.00 a week. - The commonwealth had made 'equal pay' a rule earlier but this was not acted upon. Led by Vincent Lingiari. |
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Paul Keating reconciliation speech |
- Was on December 10th 1992. - Recognised the injustices that had taken place - Did not formally apologise but took the first step to apologising to the indigenous |
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John Howard's reconciliation speech |
- He did not believe in apologising to the aboriginals - He believe that the injustices that had taken place did not involve him therefore no apology was made |
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Apology To Indigenous Australians |
- On February 19th 2008 Kevin Rudd Prime Minister of Australia made a formal apology on behalf of the Australia government. - For the injustices that took place |
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Consumer Good On Behalf Of The 20th Century |
- Toasters - Refrigerators - Vaccum Cleaners |
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The Beatles |
- English pop/ rock band - Formed in Liverpool in 1960 - Members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. - The Melbourne appearance shut down the city with over 350,000 people filling the streets |
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Rock 'n' Roll Music |
- Became popular in the 50's and 60's - Popular with youth and promote teenage rebellion - Popular worldwide - Elvis Presley became famous from the 60's onwards - Known for his music (genre rock 'n' roll) |
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Television in Australia |
-Television arrived in Australia in 1950 (just in time fore the olympic games) - Television became extremely popular and something everyone wanted - Most actors were foreign at first until Australia began to develop their own broadcast |
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The Go- Betweeners |
- Indie rock band formed in 1977 in Brisbane - Members were Robert Foster, Grant McLennan, Lindy Morrison, Amanda Brown, Glenn Thompson and Adele Pickvance |
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Australian post war music and influences for the 1950's |
- popularisation of surfing and rock 'n' roll - Rock 'n' Roll was a prominent genre of music - R&B was also becoming popular - People wrote music dedicated to their feelings and emotions - The radio largely influenced people and their attitudes towards certain things. |
