Key Events to Impact on Australia

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  • 1917

    Communist revolution in Russia and its empire creates several new countries that are known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and under the leadership of Vlodimir Lenin

  • 1919

    The Comintern, an international communist organisation formed

  • 1923

    Australia's first radio broadcast takes place in Sydney

  • 1924

    Death of Vlodimir Lenin; Joseph Stalin (the general secretary of the Communist Party) takes over power in the USSR

  • 1927

    The Jazz Singer begins the era of 'talking pictures' and the end of silent movies

  • 1929

    28 October, Wall Street stock market crash, beginning of global depression

  • 1933

    English cricket team devises 'bodyline bowling' to beat the run'scoring talents of Don Bradman

  • 1939

    World War II begins when Germany invades Poland