History of the Church after World war 2

  • White Australia Policy

    Comprised various historical polices that intentionally restricted non-white immigration to Australia.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Was one of the peace treaties at the end of world war 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on the 28th of June, 1919.
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    Pope Pius XI

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    Holocaust

    Was the mass murder of approx. 6 million Jews during the war by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. Nazi targets=Homosexuals, disabled, Jehovah's Witness and Gypsies.
  • Nuremburg laws

    Nuremburg laws- exclude Jews from public life. German Jews stripped of citizenship & prohibited intermarriage of Jews and Germans.
  • Japanese Expansionism into China & Manchuria

    Japan wanted to expand its empire in Asia, Manchuria and China
  • Kristallnacht

    Violence, damage, looting to Jews and their property. 30 000 Jews arrested and taken to Concentration camps.
  • German Invasion of Poland

    Was the beginning of the war.
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    Pope Pius XII

    Diplomat not radical preacher.
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    Cold war

  • "Populate or Perish"

    Large numbers of displaced European migrants accepted into Australia brining Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant religious beliefs with them. A new Plurality of Christianity emerge d.
  • Hungarian Uprising

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    Blessed John XXIII

  • Berlin wall (barb wire)

  • Berlin wall (concrete Wall)

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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    Paul VI

  • Multiculturalism

    White Australia is replaced by a policy of Multiculturalism.
  • John Paul I

  • Afghanistan

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    John Paul II

  • Berlin wall fell