1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril - as Darwin was destroyed by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour, and the Japanese army invaded New Guinea on its inexorable march south. This is the ...
After the Second World War, the Australian government began to encourage immigration. Australia had come close to being invaded by Japan in that war and Australians believed they had to“populate orperish”. Immigrants only needed to be healthy and under the age of 45 years to be accepted into...
Timor-Lesteball (not really) - You're a commie n' deserve to be invaded. You have "Democratic" in your name, like a commie nation. Empire of Japanball - Tortured my army and bombed my clay! Washingtonball - Sorry, mate, I never allowed to you open the Starbucks on my clay. Hondur...
by various tribes, including the Celts. After the fall of the Roman Empire, of which Austria was part, the area was invaded by Bavarians and Slavic Avars. Charlemagne conquered the area in 788 and encouraged colonization and Christianity. In 1252, Ottokar, king of Bohemia, gained possession,...
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Meanwhile, Japan was about to play a mean round of poker with an expansion that lay down a humiliating challenge to the traditional powers dominating South-East Asia: a Japanese army under the command of General Homma invaded the Phillippines; a carrier task force commanded by Admiral Nagumo ...
lost their lives in April 1945, during the last weeks of the war. These kids didn’t look like the epitome of evil. They’d been caught up in the manipulations and oppression of a totalitarian regime. It brought home the fact that the first country invaded by the Nazis was Germany ...
Australia can only be invaded by people in metal containers -– ships and aircraft. With current technology these metal vehicles can be detected from thousands of kilometres away. With satellites and over-the-horizon radar, they can be targeted as soon as they leave their port or airfield. Tha...
The ANZUS treaty (Australian, New Zealand United States) was an agreement signed by all three treaties in 1951 to protect the pacific if another attacks like the Japanese were to occur. This treaty was very important for Australia's defence, as in WW2 the Japanese almost invaded Australia but...
I’d like to think that this “plan” is simply the result of stupidity and poor advice from those who should know better. If not, it means that vested interests have invaded the political system (what a surprise that would be), and are providing ‘advice’ that is completely at odds ...