Why was darwin important in world war 2?

Answer 1

Australia went into ww2 because Japan bombed Pearl Harbour and they were coming closer to Australia. On a9 of February 1942, Darwin was bombed. The two areas that were heavily bombed were the Post Office and the Wharf because they wanted to cut of communication. They obviously knew the area well. Darwin suffered 64 air raids.

THE ABOVE IS INCORRECT - AUSTRALIA WENT TO WAR ON 3 SEPTEMBER 1939 AND HAD BEEN FIGHTING IN MANY CAMPAIGNS ALONGSIDE THE BRITISH AND OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. THE USA WENT INTO THE SECOND WORLD WAR FOLLOWING THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR. AUSTRALIA HAD ALREADY BEEN FIGHTING THE JAPANESE IN MALAYA AND SINGAPORE.

Answer 2

Darwin's idea expressed as "the survival of the fittest" contributed to several major social movements as the justification for everything from Capitalist expansionism, to Communism. It also contributed to the rationalizations underpinning Euthanasia, and Eugenics... contributing to the German notion of a 'Master Race"... and, hence, the Holocaust. Even being used as justification for Germany's seizing of other nation's in the name of Liebensraum.


The idea was generally that the "fittest" would prevail... and that, in being the fittest they prove their right to prevail.


The Soviet revolution, the US notion of Free Markets, and the German and Japanese notions of cultural and genetic superiority all partially relied on Darwinian arguments to justify their agendas.