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YEAR 10 History - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1942, Japanese fighter and bomber planes launched a series of bomb attacks across northern Australia
      - bombing of Darwin on 19 February
      - The Prime Minister declared that Australia was now in a state of ‘total war’
- - - - Royal Australian Air Force
      - 250 women were able to join as radio operators
    - - from March 1941 to August 1945 27 000 women joined
      - Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force
    - - Australia women’s army service
      - 31 000 women enlisted
      - trained to fight if Australia was invaded
      - maintenance and communication
    - - women’s royal Australian naval service
      - 3 122 women enlisted
      - Were not allowed to go to sea
- - - - 1929, the stock market crash in New York triggered a period of severe economic hardship that lasted until the late 1930s
      - Germany suffered majorly; large unemployment rates and a fall in the standard of living
      - as a result, political movements became popular in Europe and Asia
      - military power was quick to take hold
    - - Set of penalties applied to the defeated central powers after WW I
      - particularly harsh towards Germany; took blame for outbreak of WW I
        
        forced to pay reparations (providing payments to amend wrong doing) - equivalent to $33 billion
        
        Army was limited to 100 000 men
        
        Territory given up to neighbouring nations such as Denmark, France and Poland
        
        colonies divided between the allies
      - Surfaced feelings of hate and resentment among the German people; did not feel fairly treated
      - resentment taken advantage of by politicians spreading the belief of nationalism, leading to rise of Hitler
    - - Hitler was a politician that was leader of the Nazi party who eventually became Fuhrer (supreme ruler) of Germany in 1934
      - Wanted to restore Germany after the events of WW I by expanding and reclaiming the land originally taken due to the treaty
      - Did not stop invading nations and continued to break treaty and deceive Britain
      - Went to far and war declared by Britain on the 1st of September, 1939
    - - Britain and France's policy of tolerating Hitler's actions against the Treaty of Versailles
      - Only allowed Hitler to grow in power and expand Germany
      - Eventually Germany became too strong and wanted to invade Poland
      - Britain declared war to prevent Hitler from advancing any further
- - - - 269 of these men died
      - Highest number of Aussie POWs in pacific
    - - Japanese used them as forced labour build Burma railway (Thailand to Burma)
      - 13 000 Aussies forced to work
      - 1 800 died of malnutrition, disease and beatings
      - Refused to follow the GENEVA CONVENTION
        
        treaty that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war
        
        Forced soldiers to march (death marches)
        
        Forced to work 12 hour days