History Timeline

Event/ Year Description

- Signed on 28th of June 1919
Treaty of - Germany full responsibility
Versailles/ 28th - Germany had to pay for damages
- Army reduced
June 1919
- New determination of territory, 13% of Germany land +
10% of Germany population
- Official end of WW1
- Foundation of league of nations
- Main cause for WW2
- Large profit for Allies
- Der tag the day
- Germany had little choice as to what was in the treaty
- Highest standard of living in history
The Roarings - Women could vote, a new type of women - flapper
20s - After Treaty of Versailles
- Mainly in America
1920-1929
- Time of fun, parties and prosperity
- Nationalism
- Capitalism
- Mass production
- Wages up
- Use of automobiles, telephones, electricity and radios
become more common
- 1/15 to 1/5 Americans owned car
- Buy now, pay later
- Debt common
- Crime, illegal bars
- Everyone had a step up
- Most significant in America
- Stock market crash
Crash of Wall - Share prices dropped by $40 billion is a day
Street - More supply than demand
- 12 million people out of work
- 20,000 companies gone bankrupt
24th of October - Peoples loans caught up to them
1929 - 1616 banks bankrupt
- Republican -> Democratic
- Recall of loans sent to other countries
- THE NEW DEAL
- National pension system
- Oversight of labour practices
- Protection for savings
- Helped to bring Hitler to power.
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- Huge increase in unemployment
- Australia had industry made on overseas loans. Unable to
The great give back loans
Depression - Capitalism people being greedy for increased profits
- Based in Switzerland
League of - 63 nations
Nations 1919 - Task as global police
- US not a member
- Sanctions
- Safeguard
- Started to lose power leading up to WW2
- Equality between countries
- Calm global tensions down
- Ended in 1946
Adolf Hitlers - German workers party 1919, leader
rise to power - 1933 attempted a coup, failed sent to jail
- Treated well in jail
- Many people wanted him to lead Germany
- High levels of poverty during great depression
- Took control of the army
- Used the anger from the Treaty of Versailles to rally
support
- 1933 became the chancellor
Appeasement - Anglo-French policy during the 1930s
1935 - Made to avoid another war
- Peace at any cost
- No allies ready for war due to great depression
- Failure of the league of nations
- 1935
- Britain and France ignored the fact the Germany was
breaking international war
- Nationalism
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Phoney war - Between September 1939 May 1940
- After Germany invaded Poland
- No military actions retaliated against Germany
- Britain and France were not prepared for a war
- End of Phoney war is start of WWII
- WW2 started when Germany invaded Belgium
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
Japanese - Japan was isolated
Aggression - America invaded Japan in 1853
Throughout the - Japan started to trade with America
- Japan was ally I WW1
Pacific
- No rewards from WW!
- Military took over as government
1941 - 1940 signing of tripartite pact with Nazi + Italy
- Capitalism
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Attack of pearl - 1941 December 7th
Harbour - Japanese attacking American naval base
- Hoped to wipe out American naval force
- Occurred due to the US restricting the resources
- Caused America to enter the war
- The plan backfired, as American entering the war helped to
win the war for the Allies
- Terrorism, Nationalism
Curtains look to - Asked USA for help
America 1942 - from a united people to a united people
- They were in similar position
- Asking for guidance/ leader
- Help protect Australia and you are protecting your West
Coast
- Significant relationship with USA
- AANZUS Treaty
- Curtain thinking about his country
- Nationalism
Holocaust - Systematic murder of 6 million Jews
- Sacrifice by fire
- Adolf Hitler caused it
- Antisemitism and hatred of Jews
- Star of David Jew were forced to wear
- Propaganda
- Laws to oppress Jews
- Genocide
- Utilised full countries resources
- Nazis kept records of everything
- The Final Solution
- Terrorism
- Nationalism
Douglas - 1880-1964, from military family
MacArthur - Commander of USAFFE
- Consistently refused to listen to orders
- I came out of Bataan and I shall return
WW2 + Vietnam
- Part of the Australian conquest of PNG
War - Finally returned to Philippines in 1944
- In 1945 became commander of Allied Forces in Japan
- Commander of UN troops in Korean War
- Fired by Truman
- Helped to secure Australia as a close ally to USA
- US presence military presence in modern day Australia
- Saved Australia from a full force Japanese invasion
- In part weakened Australias relations with Britain
- Almost caused a third world war
- Lowered the worlds trust of the US
D day landing - Normandy landing
- 6th of June 1944
- Largest sea invasion in history
- Allies attempting to take back West Coast of Europe
- 9500 planes
- 7000 boats
- 160,000 troops
- 1000 Germans dead
- 12000 allied soldiers died
- Normandy acted as a supply route
- Nationalism
Hiroshima and - Hiroshima quite large and had military
Nagasaki - 80,000 people killed
- 69% of buildings destroyed
- 200,000 died due to radiation
6th and 9th of
- America asked for a surrender
August 1945 - Japanese did not respond
 - Another bomb to Nagasaki
- Another 80,000 killed
- Only use of nuclear weapons in Warfare
- High death toll
- Formal surrender of Japan 2nd of September 1945
The Division of - Germany and Berlin split into 4
Germany - Germany surrendered may 7th 1945
1945 - 1990 - Potsdam conference Germany into 4 demilitarised zones
- Actively intervene with Germany
- Communism and Capitalism
- USA(Trizonia) vs Russia, West vs East
- Russia angered made wall, barbed wire then full wall
- Nationalism
- Signified end of war
- Stopped world war happening again
- Cold war
- Berlin Blockade 24th of June 1948 to 12th of May 1949
- Berlin Wall
Creation of - 1946 league of nations failed
United nations - Principles of United Nations was International law,
collective security, economic Development, Human Rights,
Social provides democracy and political freedom
- Set up in 1945
- Started with 51 member states, 2013 has 193
- It prevented wars
- Smaller countries werent picked on by the Larger
countries
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Declaration of - Written by UN
Human rights - Equality
- Brotherhood
- Security,
1945
- No torture
- Right to asylum
- Racial discrimination
- People still dont agree
- Genocide (specific group), Crimes against humanity
(anyone), War crimes (Geneva Convention, against rules of
war) all breaches of human rights. International Criminal
Court
Decolonisation - Started after WW2
of Asia - Colonies tired of having to fight Britains wars, and 2 wars
at once
1945 - Some were granted independence by their colonial powers
1997 while others fought for it
- Australia and the US
- Were the prime examples of what freed colonies could do
- US strongly supported it
- Nationalism
- European countries wanted to be self-sufficient in case of a
war
- Occupying other countries often led to war which
 negatively affects the mother country
- Opens up trade opportunities
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White Australia - Immigration restriction act in 1901
Policy - Restricted people from entering the nation depending on
their backgrounds, health and occupations
- The dictation test, favoured European access to Australia
- greatest thing that Australia has achieved
- Strongly implemented in 1941 when war broke out
- Many refugees to Australia during ww2 helped in the war
effort then sent back to homeland
- 1955 stopped, many people angry they couldnt be with
their loved ones
- 1949 800 non-Europeans allowed in
- 1957 rules changed
- 1958 revised migration act no crims, mentally ill or ill
- Immigration restriction stopped in 1977
- Stereotyped
- Government propaganda
The Stolen - Aboriginal children taking from their families
Generation - The white hoped to get rid of the Aboriginal culture
- 1890s-1970s
- White thought that aboriginal people would be breed out
1905-1969
- Abuse during program
- Targeted people of mixed descent
- Crime rate went up when they were stolen
- Kevin Rudd Apology speech
- Not illegal, so no repayments
- Equal pay men and women
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US civil rights - African American civil right problems
movement Rosa - Brought the end to segregation
parks and - Banned discrimination
- Rosa Parks arrested after not giving u her seat for a white
freedom writers
male.
- Non-violent protests
1954-1968 - 90% of Montgomery took part in the boycott of buss
- Had been discriminated against for years, spoke out
against the abuse
- Equal rights for all
- Indirectly discriminated by having voting laws
- Jim Crow a set of many laws discriminating the black race
Martin Luther - From southern US
King Jr - Grew up in poverty
- Got involved in civil rights movement 1955
- Fought against segregation
1929-1968
- Founded the SCLC and ran it
- Became leader of the African-American civil rights
movement
- Led marches against the US Government for the cause of
Human Rights
- Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 10th December 1964
- Assassinated on the of April 1968
 - Us ignored the UN rules
- Stood up for what he believed in
- Fought for the rights of minorities around the world
- Protested peacefully
- Inspired many other civil rights movements
- Ended segregation
- Would receive many death threats
- America feared communism and believed king was a
communist
Jack Pattern and - Jack Pattern born 1905 in NSW, 5 siblings
day of mourning - Aboriginal
- Little education
- Rejected from navy
1958
- Protested, only 4 non aboriginals allowed into Australia
Hall
- Speech asking for full citizen rights\10 policies addressed
for equality
- Pack Pattern led the protests
- Realisation of aboriginal treatment
- Opposition of the government
- Aboriginal citizenship
- Nationalism/ civil rights
Evolution of - 1945-2007
Australian - After WW2, Australia needed lots of people
refugee policy - 1970s failure of Vietnam War led to migrants to Australia.
First policy in 1977
- Only Europeans allowed originally
1977
- Control of boat people
Civil rights

Vietnamese - Escaped during Vietnam refugees

refugees - Escaped on boats
- 2 million people fled
- Between 1975-1995
1975-1995
- Most between 1978-79
- Defeat of the capitalist south Vietnam
- Australia accepted 137,000 while other countries accepted
many more
- Terrible treatment of the refugees, racism
- Many pirate attacks
- 50,000 200,000 deaths
- Australia became thriving Vietnamese community
- Changed the mentality of White Australia
- Government turned their back originally on the
Vietnamese
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