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Australia in WW2
Questions regarding Australia's participation in World War 2, in both the European and Pacific theaters of the war.
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-The Japanese defeat put them on the defensive and they steadily lost ground from then on.
How did World War 2 affect the POWs on the Burma railway?
The POWs that were posted to build the Burma railway endured unimaginable conditions. Starvation was common and many troops died from malnutrition and disease. No medical facilities were available for the soldiers, resulting in thousands of deaths on the railway. The scars which the POWs received would stay with them both physically and mentally forever. They should be treated with the utmost respect and admiration for what they went through. They were lucky to get out at all.
I notice that neither of the above answers talks about the brutal way in which the Japanese guards treated the Allied POW's. Beatings were common, and many prisoners were killed by being kicked to death, or by being be-headed with a sword. No limits were placed on the punishment, by the Japanese officers, who considered the POWS to be "unworthy " of respect because they had "surrendered " instead of fighting and dying.
A Allied POW held by the Japanese was 9 times more likely to DIE, than if he was a German prisoner of war.
What is an event that shaped Australia's identity?
Australia was founded by a group of convicts. This helped to shape its identity as a country. The gold rush also helped to shape the country. Other things like the Aboriginal tribes that inhabited the land and the Eureka Stockade also helped Australia find its identity as an independent country.
Why is it good for Australia to follow the US?
This is a controversial question! Australia is fairly vulnerable on the world stage and has huge areas of coastline to protect. In the future-as in the past- it may have to call on a larger power for protection assistance.
Many people consider dependence on another distant superpower to be an insult to the spirit of independence which is very strong in Australia and do not believe that Australia's interests would be best served by an external power.
Why did the colonist get involved in this war and how the British government was involved?
The Revolutionary War started because of the colonists anger toward the British. The British taxed the colonists on many things and took complete control over the colonists so they fought for freedom and eventually the colonists won.
How do you say thanks in Egyption?
Egyptians today speak Egyptian Arabic.
Thank You in Egyptian Arabic (like most other dialects of Arabic) is Shukran.
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No, according to the popular children's rhyme, "fuzzy wuzzy had no hair." That is why his name was so odd.
What was the controversy surrounding Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War?
What it boiled down to was, that Australia had had a liberal government for a record number of years and this government was committed to aiding the United states regardless of how poor the consequences may turn out to be. There was a generational shift also with the first baby boomer coming into the equation as the people that were to conscripted and sent of to fight in a war that they were just not interested in. The controversy was that the attitude of the old school that had fought during WW2 who tended to blindly accept the reasoning of their political leaders was now starting to be opposed by the next generation, and they demanded an explanation for getting sent out and getting killed in a war that the politicians would not even call a war.
Australia mainly entered the war because the government wanted to keep its alliance with the US. Since the US was sending more troops to help fight the Viet Cong, the Menzies government wanted to do the same.
After the first soldier was killed in Vietnam (known as Indo-China back then) many Australians changed their opinion of the war and thus no one volunteered to go so the government had to introduce conscription through a ballot/lotto system
What important events happened in 1997?
well one of the big events n 1997 was that Princess Diana died in August !. It affected the whole world because of the shock.
also chicken became poisonous
Madelein Gissele Avila was born
Why do people want to live in Darwin even though its a dangerous place?
Business attracts people and then they make the best of it. Darwin in any case is not such a dangerous place. If people were afraid to live where there is an element of danger most of the world would be empty. Human nature tends to look beyond danger no matter where it is.
What were the conditions like at gallipoli on the landing beach?
The conditions was very humid and hot when they landed at Anzac Cove. There where steep, jagged cliffs and long bumpy mountains.
