In 1939, the history on the homefront, Australia changed significantly due to the declaration of WW2. Some changes include the roles Women played, rationing of supplies and ... of the entire force( Carrodus, Delany and Smith 2012, pg 114). This lead to more women organisations being introduced such as the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air force(WAAAF), Women Royal Australian Navy Services(WRANS), Australian Women's Army Services(AWAS) and the Women's Land Army (WLA). In July 1942, the Women's Land Army was officially recognized. This organisation ... It had provided around 90,000 women to wo...

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... spirit means strength, courage and resourcefulness. Above all, the ANZAC spirit means loyalty to your comrades and friends. On April 25 1915, tens of thousands of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) soldiers, along with allies from Britain and France, stormed the beaches of Gallipoli. The aim was to capture the peninsula to clear the ... nor the Turks seemed to be winning. The Turkish forces were not knocked out of the war and the campaign was a terrible failure. More than 8000 Australian soldiers had died during that time and thousands of others had endured horrible wounds or d...

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... and social prestige. Due to these bonds Australia went to war along with the mother country which proved their strong relationship. In 1941 Australia's relationship with America was proven when Australian soldiers fought arm to arm with US against Axis power. These allied connections changed when America came to the aid of Australians instead of Britain. WW2 impacted the built up ... of the Australian and American bond and are still strong allies in current world while the relationship with UK have relatively decreased. WW2 impacted Australia strongly leaving thousands of lives in sorro...

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... War II. However, for the next five decades she was not similarly recognised by the Australian government merely because she was not fighting for any of the Australian services during the war. The Australian Government only awarded her the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2004. Nancy Wake's ... extraordinary and important experiences have also not been widely appreciated by the Australian public, until recent times. Nancy is not featured frequently in World War II research despite her important role. Even her biographer, ... and one which raises questions about the role of women in ...

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... the social and political life". This definition only came to be accurate when the Feminist Movements first came into existence, which improved women's status not only in Australia, but worldwide. Australian women had to face male dominance, discrimination and low wages, but little by little, women's demands were conceded. The first women's rights movement emerged in part from women's sense of ... was the first country to grant women the right to vote at a national level, while Finland, as well as some American states gave women voting rights at a state level before Australian women obta...

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... would be the intolerance of most Australians who feared that their own identity was being changed. "It's all about attitude" The attitude to the new Australian migrants would have rude, crude and snobbish. " in the main life was more acceptable than the one left behind in the devastated homeland. And ... always, always it was for the "children's sake"- no matter how difficult and inconvenient a situation [became] or how long it had to be tolerated." (A history of Australia since 1901,P. 129, Source E) This meant that it would have been hard to live here if you were a migrant but you knew ...

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... II. In response to this formation, a Crimes Act was passed in Parliament which stated that if any person supported the overthrow of an existing Australian Government by violence, they would be guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment. During The Great Depression, members of the Communist International in Australia ... party between June 1940 and December 1942. By 1945, the Communist Party changed its name to the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Australian members of it had risen to over 40 000. At the end of World War II, the CPA was in a position to influence unions ... at ...

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... with the "fall" of South Vietnam to communist North Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia might also "fall" starting a communist chain reaction. Another reason why the Australian government sent Australians to serve in the Vietnam War was to fulfill their obligations as members of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO). SEATO is an alliance ... by the treaty. One aspect of the SEATO treaty was if a member country was attacked other members would help it. Therefore the Australian government felt obligated to assist the people of South Vietnam in their struggle for a life free from oppre...

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics states that, "Two or more persons who live in the same household and are related to each other by blood ... supporting the child and on the common grounds of rape. In 1997 there were 502,900 one-parent families, with 845,700 children involved (source: The Australian, June 1997). Although many of these situations cannot be helped, the same problems can occur for the children involved as in homosexual relationships. Growing up neglected ... discipline are just some of the problems which have been known to complicate single-parented children. In the past sing...

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... forces served in the Vietnam War under the banner of the United States of America. The act of going to war, so common in Australian history, became perhaps the single most controversial issue in the short history of our nation. Whilst traditionally the populace were supportive of Australians in war, many were opposed to the idea of Australia fighting what was believed to ... society, Australia soon found itself fighting a war on two fronts; one in the jungles of Vietnam, and another in the city streets. The Vietnam War was a defining moment in our history, with our nation developing its...

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... . Millions more people were wounded and made homeless throughout the globe. Almost a million of those that served in the war were Australian, round about 3500 Australians were killed when the Bomber Command's offensive against occupied Europe. Over 30,000 Australian servicemen were taken prisoner in the World War II, and 39,000 gave their lives. It was probably the most costly war ... coalition but it got way out of hand and became a world war. In terms of lives lost and material destruction, World War II was the most devastating war in human history. Many people perished for their belie...

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On the 19th of February 1942, in the middle of the 2nd World War, mainland Australia came under attack for the first time in history, when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on the city of Darwin. The attack, led by the same commander responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941, was part ... by fighter jets, and the second in the afternoon by 21 bombers. The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 people were wounded. However, the Australian government released to the public that only 17 people had been killed in the attacks to keep up the nation's morale. Da...

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... known as the start of World War II and his cruel action that led to a genocide during World War II, The Holocaust. The Holocaust constitutes the deadliest conflict in human history. The Nazi Party was abusing the human rights and their freedom just to satisfy their desires. The victims were not just the Jews but the other ethnics as well. A book ... II and also The Holocaust. The book has been rewarded by numerous awards, "The Book Thief". "The Book Thief" has been written by Markus Zusak, an Australian author. This book tells us about the life of a nine years-old girl living in Germany...

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... gloom. Mechanized warfare, for the first time, met prehistoric combat. The lives of glory wanting youth came to fight a war that would inevitably lead to most of their death. The Australian troops mowed down, yet kept charging and charging, falling to the ground as destiny told. A poet, by the name of Siegfried Sassoon, used this time as a way to create aphoristic ... pieces for the people to understand what really happened. The poems "suicide in the trenches " and "prelude: the troops, " both travel a significant way in history and provide insight into the war. Sassoon, based on his kn...

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... and even though there was no act of war, this situation they found themselves in became known as the Cold War. Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied ... , the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Ro...

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... a retreat. Upon the allied powers" retreat, the Turkish forces "dug" themselves in, preparing for another assault. This assault came on April 25. The forces used in this incursion consisted of Australian, New Zealand, French and Indian troops. The plan called for a landing on the peninsula with a moderate amount of forces and pushing inland, hopefully all the way to Istanbul. During the ... inadequate in number in the first place. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, later claimed that 3 divisions could have claimed Gallipoli in February while 7 was insufficient in April (Cax...

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... and many more set backs for society. On October 24th 1929, 13million shares were sold on Wall Street and this marked the beginning of the greatest financial crash in world history. On hearing this people all over the world stopped buying shares in big companies so these companies had to close down so that meant loss of jobs. Between 1929 and ... and eventually had to shut down. The closure of these companies led to mass unemployment. It took two years for the shortage of money to be taken into account in Australian society. Unemployment above all was the worst sideffect of the depressio...

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