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Australia and the modern world 1918-2012

By monom
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    Australia and the modern world

  • Riots at Lambing Flat

    Riots at Lambing Flat
    The riots of Lambing flat had caused over 1,000 Chinese people to lose their posesion and one of the reasons that the Chinese was hated on the goldfeilds was because they had techniques that were helping them get more gold than the Australians so when they were driven out of the gold farm all of their gold would have been taken and 5 other golfeilds to have do the same.
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
    Japan being such a large population and small habitable (the north is mountanous and therefore inhabitable) land they need to expand their border and they wen into into Manchuria and took 200,000 km² from China and seizing the main rail comunication with Korea increaasing the hate between Japan and China.
  • Japan leaves the league of nations

    Japan leaves the league of nations
    The league of nations created a document blaming Japan for invading Manchuria which then enraging Japan causing them to declare their resignation. This made them angry against the other countries in the league. This would have caused growing anger against countries in the league of nations leading into the war.
  • Pearl harbour

    Pearl harbour
    The US declared war on Japan and the Japanese struck back destroying important American fleets. They destroyed three cruisers, three destroyers, four navy battleships and 4 damaged, an anti-aircraft ship, one minelayer and 188 US aircrafts. 1,282 people wounded, 2,402 people killed which is more than 36 times the amount of Japanese and many important base instalation (power station, storage facilities ect)
  • Nagasaki atomic bombing

    Nagasaki atomic bombing
    80,000 people died and most of them being civilians. Because of the large drop in population that started a large influx of births in the nation. Now they are the 10th most populated country in the world with 127,547,000 people and 389 people per square kilometre. The devastation is still causing deaths from the radiation.
  • China becomes communist

    China becomes communist
    China was a big strong country that was strugling and when they turned communist the other countries feared that they might grow and want more power. China being a large country they had many rich people so they were becoming very rich of the incoming money. People were afraid that they would rise up and try and take over.
  • Montgomery bus strike

    Montgomery bus strike
    This was a revolutionary event that abolished to racial segregation in busses in Alabama but this setup many other people like Martin Luther King, Jr and Ralph Abernathy who succeeded in helping abolish all racial segregation in America. This small act helps bring equality to America and then inspired the world.
  • The best student was born

     The best student was born
    ME!!
  • The Tampa crisis

    The Tampa crisis
    The Tampa Crisis showed the stubborness of the Australian government and created tension between countries. Australia blamed Indonesia and vice versa so it left both countries refusing responsibility of the 438 that enraged the Afghanistani.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    The attacks killed 2,996 people the largest terrorist attack in the world and it created a great hatred and fear of the Afghanistani people and their terrorist. Even non Americans were afraid that they would be targeted. It turned the whole nation silent with the death of so many civilians and officers in the nations military base.
  • Bali bombigs

    Bali bombigs
    202 people died from 24 different countries so it affected many people from aroud the world mainly from Australia and Indonesia and was known by many others. It made the growing tourism in Bali lower drasticaly and gave Bali and its people a bad name and scared most tourist to look atb the bad side of the island.