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The Wall Street Crash
The wall street crash was important as it affected not only USA and the western industrialized countries for a 10 year period called the great depression, but it also affected Germany in the way that they had been loaned before hand £6,600 million by the USA and at the time of the wall street crash, USA was recalling all loans which meant Germany was put into debt. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invading Manchuria (In China) impacted the modern world in the way that Japan was then portrayed as a powerful country for taking on the Chinese Empire which made Japan contemplate on securing domination over as many hundreds of millions of people as possible in eastern Asia and gradually extending control through the Pacific islands to the Dutch East Indies and elsewhere, thereby dominating in practical effect that one-half of the world. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was relatively recent. There are still survivors. The horrors of incarcerating Jews/people (i.e. Allied prisoners of war) in concentration camps and tattooing innocent inmates, including women and children, with numbers spoke to the inhumanity of the Germans. The Germans went further still. They built ovens to burn living human beings and gassed people to death in "homicidal gas chambers disguised as showers." These were not isolated incidents. The insane and deranged Germans syste -
Pearl Harbour attack
The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theatres.This also affected Germany as they were allies with Japan and needed to fulfil their duty as allies by helping them. -
Nagasaki bombing
The Nagasaki Bombing impacted the modern world as it killed over 39,000 japanese people and 25,000 were injured, also thousands more later died due to severe burns and injuries. It also affected Russia in the way that the U.S had proven to be powerful and outgoing which made Russia feel more threatened and intimidated, -
China Becomes Communist
China becoming communist impacted the world because it changed or affected China in the way that over the next centuries, China now have developed one of the , fastest progressing and strongest economies that the world has ever seen. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Whilst the small act of an African- American woman refusing a seat to a white man seems small and non- important, this made people think about inequality between not only African Americans and Americans, but also Australian Aboriginies and Australians and this created or built up ideas about racsim which affected America and Australia. -
Publication of Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb"
The Population Bomb elaborated on ideas that impacted the whole world.It affected people by making them think differently about the war and what was going to happen, which made them feel uneasy.It gave strong messages and even laws we have learnt to live by to this day. -
Save Franklin/Gordon River campaign successful.
The Campaign to Save Franklin/Gordon River was important to not only Australia but also the rest of the world as created and continued to establish ideas that were widely heard around the world. -
9/11
9/11 introduced terrorims and what terrorists were capable of doing. This terrified not only Americans but also alot of their allies as People like Osama Bin Laden showed great hatred towards the country.
