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- - - - neither France nor Britain could afford to go to war as the economies of both countries were in the grip of the Great Depression
      - many people believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on Germany and some believed that Hitler’s actions were justified.
      - they believed that giving in to Hitler’s demands would avoid another war
  - - - Over time this led to a sense of resentment and bitterness among the German people. Many of them felt that they had been unfairly treated
- - - - sewing
      - nursing
      - cooking
- - - - the highest number of Australian POWs were found within the pacific, around 22,000 were captured by the Japanese
      - 15000 of these were in Malaya and Singapore
      - by 1945, 8000 had died
      - the Japanese used POWs as forced labour to build the Burma railway
  - - - evidence
        
        forced POWs to build Burma Railway
        
        8000 Australian POWs died in captivity from either execution, beating, slave labour, starvation or from disease
        
        forced POWs to work 12 hour days
        
        death marches
        
        Jan 1945, 470 POWs foced to march 260 kilometres from Sandakan to Ranau
- - - - March 1942, Japanese forces established bases on mainland New Guinea, with the objective of capturing Port Moresby
      - Japan’s only option to seize Port Moresby seemed to be an overland assault through dense jungle along a narrow path known as the Kokoda Trail. The Kokoda Trail is a roughly 96-kilometre-long narrow path in New Guinea, connecting Port Moresby to the village of Kokoda. Surrounded by steep mountains and jungle, the trail was frequently a river of sticky mud, and it was extremely slippery
      - The first clash of the Kokoda campaign occurred on 23 July, when a small Australian platoon slowed the Japanese advance across the Kumusi River, before falling back to Kokoda
      - the Australians continued to fall back and set traps for the Japanese military. the Australian troops were able to do this because they had far fewer troops than the Japanese allowing them to move quicker and more efficiently
      - In October, Australian troops launched a counterattack along the trail, gradually forcing the Japanese back. By 2 November, Kokoda was back in Allied hands
    - - Australian troops led a British counterattack into Libya, capturing Bardia, Tobruk and Benghazi early in 1941
      - Tobruk is the most important port in northern Africa, because its deep water allows large ships to dock there. It is also surrounded by steep escarpments, which make it easy to fortify against attack from the land. There were some 14,000 Australian troops and 12,000 British and Indian troops in Tobruk during the siege