Causes Of Australia's War

During World War I, the Australian home front was impacted by a long and varying list of occurrences during the period of time between the years of 1914 to 1918. The home front was influenced politically through the arguments over the conscription vote and as Australia became divided between the different war beliefs. It was also influenced by social change, as the use of censorship drastically altered the Australians’ views of war and women began to pick up odd jobs in order to assist the soldiers as very few of them were allowed to directly help as nurses in Gallipoli. There were also extreme economic alterations as the wages in Australia were pushed down and prices were pushed up, and the country discarded major trade partners who had become their enemy.

World war 2 started when Great Britain declared war on Germany In 1939. It ended in 1945. Almost one million Australians both men and women were involved in world war 2. On September 3rd 1939, Prime minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced that Australia will now be involved in world war 2. This was done after Australian land came under attack for the first time. Japanese aircrafts bombed towns North West Australia and Japanese submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. Australians fought in campaigns against Germany, Italy, The Mediterranean, North Africa, and Japan.

WW1 began on 28th July 1914 ending in 11th November 1918, originating in Europe after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The war was fought on a number of fronts including the Western Front, Middle East, Europe, Africa and Gallipoli. As the war progressed, WW1 became known as ‘The Great War’, the war to end all wars. A short period of time after Britain and Germany went to war, Australia was included into the fighting as at the time Australia was still a colony to the British. Australia prepared for war months before, enlisting soldiers for all types of military forces, these included, the naval, expeditionary, Imperial force, ANZAC, infantry, artillery, flying corps, transport ships and the Light horse Units.

The arrival of Arthur Phillip’s first fleet in 1778 and the following arrivals of convicts and free settlers during the nineteenth century has been known as ‘the settlement of Australia’ a term believed to be a racial and cultural bias. Due to our history being dominated by the white man, and the influence of the concept of ‘terra nullius’, we are brought up to believe, from a European point of view, that the settlement was peaceful, and lawfully correct. However, being recorded as the first nation genocide, the word invasion best suits this colonization. In 2017 this argument is still debated, as protest and outcries attempt to force Australia to change its national day from the 26th of January to another date, as many indigenous

Before the First Fleet, consisting of eleven ships, arrived in Botany Bay on the 26th of January 1788, it is known that there were approximately 750 000 Aboriginals living in Australia. Today there are only about 250 000 (Harding, 2001). They all made many, both positive and negative impacts on the Aboriginals. Whilst they brought several diseases which wiped out much of the population and kidnapped many Aboriginal people, the British also showed many technologies to the Native people and introduced them to the modern world.

The reason why Australia joined the Vietnam War was to support South Korea in stopping communism from spreading to Europe and Asia. The French defeat at the Dien Bien Phu was followed by a peace conference in Geneva. As a result of the conference, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence, and Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North. Koreas national conflict had rapidly become one of the global significance the us president called to stop North Korea from invading South Korea and spreading communism. North Korea refused which led to the USA to start a military intervention to stop communism spreading to South Korea. From the 29th of June to the 27th 1953 1700 Australian sailors, soldiers and airmen served in the Korean War.

After World War II in the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union were the new “Superpowers”. These two major nations had two conflicting political ideologies which were stated as Capitalism and Communism, and this had Australia right in the middle of the story. Since Australia has very strong ties with the US, making it even stronger after involving in the Vietnam War and also grew strong with the ‘SEATO’ and ‘ANZUS’ with the fear of the so called ‘domino theory’ and the foreign policies which including the Forward Defence Policy. This, however, allowed Australia to gain a closer chance to go to war in Vietnam.

From the 1850’s to the 1880’s bushranging was at its height in Australia akin to America’s wild-west. Easy money was the go on the end of a gun. Desperadoes such as the likes of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid etc. unknowingly followed in the footsteps of Australia’s Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, Johnny Gilbert, John O'Meally, Daniel Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt etc. and later Jesse James contemporary, Ned Kelly. Ben Hall had his own Robert (Bob) Ford - betrayed for blood money by Mick Coneley.

‘Australia is at War’ is a primary source from the year 1939 and is a speech by renowned Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies (1894 – 1978). This speech was delivered at the beginning of World War II declaring Australia’s participation and assistance to its “Mother Land”, Great Britain. World War II was developed and initiated by the infamous Adolf Hitler, a notorious German leader and the head of the Nazis. German’s invasion of Poland initiated Great Britain’s move towards force rather than their original approach of negotiations and peace, as stated in Prime Minister Menzies’ speech, “they [Great Britain] have kept the door of negotiations open; they have given no cause for provocation.” So the purpose of this source, Menzies speech,

During the Second World War over a seven month period between July 1942 and January 1943, the events of the Kokoda Trail Campaign and the Battle of the Beachheads took place on what was once the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea. Good morning, I am Lee Varnes, and I am representing the Australian War Memorial to inform you of the significance of Australia’s involvement in the Papua Campaign. I will be discussing the reasons behind Japan’s invasion of Papua, the course of the campaign, the outcome of the campaign and the significance it had on the Australian people and the soldiers involved.

Although both the World Wars had significant impacts on Australians, the statement that wartime controls in World War One had a greater impact on Australians than they did in World War Two is fairly inaccurate. There are a number of reasons as to why this was the case, as demonstrated through the government 's wartime controls. One of the wartime controls that was utilised by the government in both World Wars but had greater impact on Australians in World War Two was conscription. Another wartime control that had a higher degree of impact on Australians in World War Two than in World War One was the detainment and isolation of ‘enemy aliens’ when the government again took steps to protect their national security. With such a large number of servicemen deployed overseas, the role of women in Australia also changed drastically to meet the needs of the armed forces, the government and the economy and this influenced Australian life more in World War Two. Therefore, although both wars affected the lives of many Australians in mental, physical, social and economic aspects, the wartime controls of World War Two had a much greater impact on Australians than in World War One.

The first type of bushranger was convicts from the first fleet who fled the colony for freedom. The second types of bushranger were those who chose to become an outlaw. Within this essay I will highlight the reasons why a bushranger became an outlaw by explaining the lifestyle of the early Australian settlement and how they shaped Australian’s Colonial Identity and became an important part of Australian history.

World War one had a major impact on Australia. These ranged from economical impacts to severe increase in death rates during the time period of 1915-1918. Australia as a country continued to suffer the impacts of World War 1 for many years later. But by the conclusion of the First World War, Australia had sacrificed many men far more than any allied nation per-capita.

The Black war was set in the mid-1820s to 1832, in Australia,Tasmania it was the period of conflict between the British and the Aboriginals. For the first 10 years or more after Britain settled in Tasmania in 1803. It’s small outposts on the Derwent and Tamar rivers never made up of more than a couple thousand poorly equipped colonists. Most majority of the island remained under Aboriginal control and conflict was rare.

also the crime rate in Britain had raised dramatically and all prisons were full to the max, they even started to use some of the old ships to store the prisoners because all of the jails were full. The reasoning behind all of this crime is because of the industrial revolution not long before and the machines were taking over people’s jobs and all the unemployed needed to get money somehow so they resorted in stealing which ultimately made all the prisons full. The Britain originally sent convicts to the US but later decided just to send them to Australia. The first fleet set off in 1787 and arrived in 1788 in Botany Bay but soon after landing they thought that the surfaces were to soft and decided to move camp, and they ended up of what is now called Sydney. Around 40 years after the first fleet arrived, the Europeans wanted to expand from Sydney so in 1825 they arrived in Van Diemen’s land now known as Tasmania. Soon after convicts were sent all round