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Modern Australia

By Carnovale

  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush
    Creating Australia, builiding the economics, multicultural background and population the Gold Rush was debatably the best asset for Australia.

  • White Australia Policy

    White Australia Policy
    The policy of a White Australia began a multicultural environment and without it we would be a very misplaced country. Although it was racist and unfair, it impacted Australia greatly in both ways.

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    Decreasing Australias population dramatically, WW1 was a huge impact on our country. Ultimately, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of technological advancements that led to enormous increases in the lethality of weapons without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subse

  • Wall Street Crash 1929

    Wall Street Crash 1929
    It affects Australia more than Japan leaving the League of Nations because of its great depression, causing a economic crisis worldwide, were as Japan was not as important as it. Australia was barely involved.

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
    Starting WW2 in the Pacific, which Australia was affected more than they wouldve been if it was just the war in Europe. Anschlus between Germany and Austria wasn’t an affect on Australia, were as WW2 is more important

  • Pearl Harbour

    Pearl Harbour
    (Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu) Pearl Harbour brought America into WW2, and without them we would be dominated by the enemy nations. Fall of Singapore was dramatic for them as a country (China) but didn’t change Australia.

  • Nagasaki Atomic bombing ended nuclear bombing. Changing Australia and making them not use nuclear weapons and stopping WW2. The blitz was still instrumental in the world but wasn’t as influenced as NAB.

    Nagasaki Atomic bombing ended nuclear bombing. Changing Australia and making them not use nuclear weapons and stopping WW2. The blitz was still instrumental in the world but wasn’t as influenced as NAB.
    Nagasaki Atomic bombing ended nuclear bombing. Changing Australia and making them not use nuclear weapons and stopping WW2. The blitz was still instrumental in the world but wasn’t as influenced as NAB.

  • snowy mountains scheme

    snowy mountains scheme
    The Scheme increased electricity providing irrigation water for the dry west. Australia saw this as a milestone towards full nation development.

  • Bus Strike

    Bus Strike
    The Montgomery Bus strike was a political protest by the black people living in Montgomery. Australia had racial problems, and wouldve impacted American immigrants enough to be unattracted.

  • Cuban Missile crisis

    Cuban Missile crisis
    The Cubam Missile crisis started the Cold war and China becoming communist barely impacted Australia. The Cold war affected every nation, making countries think another nuclear war. This ia a picture of Adlai Stevenson and J.F Kennedy discussing the problem.