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Wall Street Crash 1929
The Wall street U.S stock market crash was of large significance, and had a great impact on the worlds stockmarket, including Australia. It affected people all over the world, many people lost nearly all their money, leaving them in huge debt. The event affects were so bad that it signaled the great depression. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
When Japan invaded Manchuria, that was one of the first events that led to causing wolrd war two making it of huge significance. It gave the idea to other countries, like china, to go and invade other countries trying to make them selves more powerful. It also led to Japan leaving the league of nations. -
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack had huge significance on the world because it led directly to the American entry into world war 2, the attack in Hawaii had a huge impact on the world. The majority of the USA's naval ships and fighter planes were damaged or sunk, leaving America very little to fight back with. A huge number of American soldiers were killed, but Japan had barely any loses at all. -
Nagasaki atomic bombing
The atomic bombings in Nagasaki caused the death of over double that the blitz had, and it also was one of the events that ended world war two. It was one of two atomic bombing done on Japan, the other being Hiroshima. These bomings left citizens diseased and injured, and most of all dead. America was since looked at as a very dangerous country. -
Vietnam war
Especially in Australia and America, the Vietnam War was of huge sagnificane, and affected nearly every Australian and American’s lives. During this epriod, conscription was in action and many young teenage boys from all over America, Australia, and many other contributing countries lost their lives. -
Publication of Rachel Carlson’s Silent Spring
The publication of the Silent Spring, had a much larger significance, because it led to the launch of the contempery American environmental movement, improving the preservation of the environment in America. It brought out a lot of controversy over the use of chemical pesticedes. It was argues that in her book she didnt say about the positives of using pesticides, but that was all the society needed to know they had to make a change. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war. It therefor would have affected the whole world, including Australia especially. With USA’s huge nuclear weapon system, any other country threatening them could have been destroyed easily. If a war broke out between Soviet union, Cuba and the USA, the world would have been in huge crisis. -
Referendum
The affect of the referendum had a large impact on Australia because it gave more freedom towards the Australian Aboriginals. The 1967 referendum, has now led to a new constitution put in place in 2010, giving the Australian Indigeous people more recognition that they were first on this land. The new Consistution gave the Aborginines more freedom do act like an Australian and eaqual to everyojne else white or black skinned. -
Publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968)
This event is of huge significance because, the hypothesis that Ehrlich suggested, was a certain to impact everyone in the world. No matter whether people had an opinion about this or not, if this idea was true, everyone would be affected by the decreasing food source and the environmental damage. -
September 11 attacks
9/11 had huge affects on the world, making many people realise the massive problems with security and the huge problems that america had with terrorists. For our generation, this event is very recent for us, and it reminds us of how dangerous some terroists and organisations are, and how they are very hard to stop.
