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Australia and the Modern World
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Wall Street Stock Market Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a significant event in Australian History as the crash of the wall street market in America caused the whole world to go into recession also known as the great depression. The great depression caused millions of people to become homeless and unable to feed there family’s. The great depression was thought to be caused by the treaty of versailles. Not only did the crash of Wall Street cause America to go into recessioin but all over the world markets crashed -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan Invading Manchuria was a significant event in History as it was one of the many reasons that world war two started. At the time Japan were considered as an empire and Japan invaded Manchuria because of Japan’s lack of resources. Japan invading Manchuria to the Chinese people could have been thought as the start of world war two. -
Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbour was a significant in History as Pearl Harbour was the event of the Japanese bombing the American’s main naval base at Pearl Harbour in the Pacific ocean. Previously the Americans had not entered the war and it caused the Americans to help end the war and also created the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. -
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb was a signifiant event in History as it was the end of the second world war. The Atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki due to the Japanese not surrendering after the hiroshima atomic bomb. The Nagasaki Atomic bomb killed 60,000–80,000 initally, In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. -
Montgomery bus strike
The Montgomery Bus strike was a protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956. This event caused a change to how people with different colour skin were treated around the world. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It is one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
Publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968)
The book ‘population bomb’ had an impact on society in the late’s 1960’s as it brought up the ideas of preserving the environment and that the population of the earth might grow too large to sustain itself. -
The Save Franklin/ Gordon river campaign
The Save Franklin/ Gordon river campaign was an event in the world that was one of the first successful environmental campaigns. -
9/11 2001
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were a disaster. A group of terrorists from an organisation called Al Qaeda, organised four separate attacks on the United States of America, these attacks took place as air attacks as the terrorists hijacked passenger planes and tried to crash them into the world trade centres in New York and the two other planes crashed in a field and the other into the Pentagon. -
GFC
The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total collapse of large financial institutions.
