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WHEN WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED
28TH JUNE 1919
WHAT FOUR COUNTRIES DOMINATED AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
BRITAIN ITALY FRANCE USA
WHO WAS USA’S PRESIDENT AT THE TIME
WOODROW WILSON
WHO WAS FRANCES PRIME MINISTER AT THE TIME
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
WHY DID CLEMENCEAU WANT TO WEAKEN GERMANY AS A RESULT OF THE WAR
BECAUSE FRANCE SUFFERED GREATLY
WHAT DID WOODROW WILSON WANT TO ACHIEVE
LASTING PEACE
WHAT WERE THE TERMS OF THE TREATY IN REGARDS TO GERMANY
- HAD TO GIVE UP LARGE SECTIONS OF ITS TERRITORY AND ALL OVERSEAS COLONIES
- LIMITED ARMY 100,000 MEN (MAILY VOLUNTEERS)
- NOT PERMITTED TO POSSESS ANY AIR FORCE, TANKS, SUBS OR HEAVY ARTILLERY
- HAD TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF WWI AND FORCED TO PAY REPARATIONS
WHAT WAS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FORMED AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
WHO SUGGESTED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS WHAT WAS INTERESTING ABOUT THEM
USA, THEY WERENT APART OF THE LEAGUE AS THEY WERE RELUCTANT TO GET INVOLVED IN EUROPEAN CONFLICT
WHAT WAS THE GREAT DEPRESSION
A SEVERE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND HARDSHIP
WHAT BECAME A RESULT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
ECONOMY EVAPORATED BUISNESSES CLOSED DOWN UNEMPLOYMENT GREW WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS WAGES WERE CUT
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AUSTRALIANS LOST THIER JOBS IN 1932
32%
WHAT WAS AUSTRALIAS LAND PROCLAIMED
TERRA NULLIUS - NO MANS LAND
WHAT YEAR DID EUROPEAN SETTLERS ARRIVE ON AUSTRALIAS SHORES
1788
WHAT WERE THE TWO MAJOR BATTLES FOUGHT AT SEA
BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
WHAT WAS THE KOKODA CAMPAIGN KNOWN AS
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
HOW DID THE TERMS OF THE TREATY AFFECT GERMANY
ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY
HOW DID THE GERMANS FEEL TOWARDS THE VICTORIOUS NATIONS
SENSE OF BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT
TREATED UNFAIRLY
WHEN DID SINGAPORE SURRENDER TO THE JAPANESE
15 FEBRUARY 1942
HOW MANY TROOPS WERE TAKEN JAPANESE POW
130000 (15000 AUS)
WHAT WAS THE GREATER EAST ASIAN CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
THE IDEA THAT ASIA COULD BE FREE OF WESTERN INFLUENCE FOR ASIAN NATIONS
WHAT WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
TERMS THAT PLACED RESTRICTIONS ON GERMANYS ARMY, FORCED GERMANY TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR WWI AND TO PAY REPARATIONS FOR DAMAGE CAUSED DURING THE WAR
WHO WAS JOHN CURTAIN
PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA DURING WWII
WHO WAS ROBERT MENZIES
THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR (II)
WHO WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL
BRTITISH PRIME MINISTER DURING THE WAR
WHO WAS WOODROW WILSON
THE US PRESIDENT DURING THE WAR
WHAT RESOURCES DID JAPAN LACK IN AND WHO WERE THEY DEPENDANT OF FOR THESE RESOURCES
OIL, RUBBER, COAL, RUBBER FOR STEEL PRODUCTION
CHINA AND USA
WHAT IS COMMUNISM
A WAY OF ORGANISING A SOCIETY WHERE ALL GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY ACCORDING TO NEED, PUBLICLY OWNED
WHAT IS MILITARISM
FOCUS WITHIN A COUNTRY ON BOOSTING THE STRENGTH OF MILITARY BY GROWING ARMED FORCES AND SPENDING ON MILITARY EQUIPMENT
WHAT IS FASCISM
GOVERNMENT RUN BY A DICTATOR WHO HAVE COMPLETE POWER
WHEN WAS THE NAZI PARTY FORMED AND WHO WAS ITS LEADER AND WHAT WERE ITS IDEOLOGIES
1921, ADOLF HITLER NATIONALISM ANTI-COMMUNISM ANTI-SEMITISM (ANTI JEW) ETHNIC JEWS WERE RACIALLY SUPERIOR
WHAT DID THE GREAT DEPRESSION CAUSE IN REGARDS TO THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
CAUSED MILITARY TO TAKE OVER WHO WERE FAR MORE AGGRESSIVE IN THEIR APPROACH TO SOLVING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
WHAT YEAR DID JAPAN SIGN A TRIPARTITE PACT WHICH CEMENTED THE ALLIANCE OF AXIS POWERS ITALY GERMANY
1940
WHEN DID JAPAN ATTACK PEARL HARBOUR
DECEMBER 7 1941
HOW DID THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOUR BACKFIRE ON JAPAN
CAUSE USA, NETHERLANDS AND AUSTRALIA TO DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN
THEN GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON USA WHICH BROUGHT USA INTO THE EUROPEAN WAR
WHY DID AUSTRALIA FEEL THREATENED BY JAPAN WHEN SINGAPORE WAS INVADED
BECAUSE SINGAPORE WAS REGARDED AS ALMSOT IMPOSSIBLE TO INVADE AND HAD A STRONG BRITISH PRESENCE WHICH MADE AUSTRALIA FEEL PROTECTED - MEANT THERE WAS NOTHING STOPPING JAPAN FROM INVADING AUSTRALIA
WHO DID AUSTRALIA TURN TO WHEN THEY COULD NO LONGER RELY ON BRITAIN
USA
WHEN DID JAPAN LAUNCH AN ASSAULT ON DARWIN AND HOW MANY WERE KILLED
19 FEBRUARY 1941
250 KILLED
