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Women's rights to vote in Australia
In 1891 a handful of determined women set out knocking on peoples doors handing in a partition to allow women to vote in Australia.The partition was very successful gaining over thirty three thousand signichers, It was the largest partition that had ever been presented to parliament. the law was first passed in 1918 in New South Whales. -
Art in the Aftermath of the First World War
A Lot of the art after the great war was very dark. Artist were painting pictures of the aftermath of the war and that their cities were looking like.This was a very hard time for people and we know this because of the pictures that the artists were painting, there were a lot of deceased bodies and homeless families in these paintings. -
Treaty of Versailles signed after six months of negotiations
Germany and the Allied powers sign the Treaty of Versailles after six months of negotiations. The German armed forces are limited in size to 100,000 personnel no air force and no submarines with only 6 ships and Germany is ordered to pay large reparations for war damages. The United States signed the treaty but did not ratify it, later making a separate peace treaty with Germany. -
soviet union forms
Russia emerged from war in 1921 as the newly formed Soviet Union. The world’s first Communist state would become one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world, taking up nearly one-sixth of Earth’s land surface, before its fall in 1991. -
Hitler youth
The Hitler Youth was an extension of Hitlers belief that the future of Germany was in the children. The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important as going to school. In the early years of the Nazi government Hitler made it clear that it was compulsory for kids from 14-18 to join, he also wanted the children to be: “The weak must be chiselled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupps steel.” -
Germany joins the League of Nations
Finally Germany had a new government that could make laws under the guidance of Gustav Stresemann , the government called off the strike it had during the time, persuaded the French to leave the Ruhr and even got the rest of the world to allow Germany to join the League of Nations. -
The great depression
Throughout the 1920s the US economy dispersed rapidly, and the nation's wealth more than doubled between 1920-1929. The stock markets stock exchange on wall street New York, is where a lot of reckless speculation happened because people weren't thinking of the long term effects. Everyone from millionaires to cooks poured their saving in to stocks, as a result of this the stock market rapidly expanded reaching its peak in august 1929. By then unemployment had risen and people were without jobs. -
Hitler rises to power
After the Night of the Long Knives, nothing stood between Hitler and hitler having all power in Germany, except for the 87-year-old German President Paul von Hindenburg, who now lay close to death. hitler finally raised to power in 1932. -
Germany leaves the league of nations
In 1933, nine months after Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations. The reason they left the league of nations was because of the refusal of the Western powers to accept Germany’s demands for military parity. -
Black friday bushfire
Blown by very strong winds, the fires rapidly spread across areas of Victoria, causing a lot of destruction. An area of almost two million hectares was burned across the state of victoria, with 71 people losing their lives. Whole towns were destroyed in the fires and many sawmills burned to the ground. thousands of animals such as sheep, cattle and horses were killed by the intense flames.
