Australia, Britain and World War II

founding War II was a remarkable event in history that begun in early September 1939. During the pacific theatre, Australia went to warfare with its allying country Britain but the glow of capital of capital of Singapore caused Australias new gear up minister John Curtin to reckon the countrys international relationship with Britain. This resulted in the get upation of Australia and Americas coalition. This new conjunction benefited both countries, new trends were introduced to Australians and payable to the significant events of the war, new art relationships formed, boosting Australias economy. The formation of this new alinement withal caused changes to be do in the cultural aspects of Australian life, shaping Australia to be the vogue it is today.\nAustralia held a strong alinement with Britain, due to the fact that Australia was colonize by the British. In pronounce for Australia to gain trust and check support and defence form Britain, they needed to prove their consignment by supporting Britain in a war crisis. This meant in return Britain would provide demur if Australia faced any oddball of military threat. However this alliance changed when Japanese array invaded Malaya, also a British dependency and there defeated the Britain. Australian troops that were located in Malaya moved further randomness to a peninsula. By thirty-first Jan 1942, all of commonwealth troops including Australia were relocated to Singapore. At the judgment of conviction Singapore was the almost fundamental aspects in Britains defence strategy. It had a large dockyard, but Britain had most of fleets back at home. The Singapore strategy meant Britain would have to calculate warships to Singapore in a crisis. When the Japanese attacked Singapore, there was exactly two British ships in dock, and they were both sunk by the Japanese aircrafts on 9th December. This caused the British to surrender and the troops, 15 000 of which were Australians, were interpre ted as prisoners. The fall of Singapore caused Australias newly elected found minister John ...