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Created byElyse Bywater
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Ereignisse
1918 - World War I ends1919 - Treaty of
Versailles is signed1929 - Great Depression
begins1939 - World War II
begins1945 - World War II ends
Cold War begins
UN charter is signed1947 - India gains
independence. Arrival of
first 'displaced persons'
in Australia1948 - Australia signs the
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights1949 - Snowy Mountains
Hydro-Electric
Scheme begins1950 - Korean War begins1951 - Australia
signs ANZUS Treaty1953 - Korean War ends1954 - Vietnam War begins1956 - Television launched
in Australia. Summer
Olympic Games in
Melbourne1962 - Australian military
advisors sent to Vietnam1964 - Conscription
reintroduced in Australia1967 - Referendum decides
Indigenous Australians to
be counted in the census
for the first time1972 - Australian women
wages are to be aligned
with men's1973 - Australia's participation
in the Vietnam War ends1975 - Vietnam War ends
Aboriginal Land Bill is introduced
into Parliament1988 - Australian Bicentenary1989 - Rosemary Follett is
the first female head of
a state (NT)1990 - Australian Navy
deployed for First Gulf War1991 - Dissolution of
the USSR. Cold War ends1992 - Mabo decision1999 - Australian troops
are sent to East Timor2000 - Summer Olympic
Games in Sydney2001 - Australian troops
are sent to Afghanistan2003 - Iraq is invaded
by the US
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