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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
Pre-League Years
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18 May – 29 July 1899 |
First Hague Convention |
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15 June – 18 October 1907 |
Second Hague Convention |
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28 July 1914 |
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia |
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4 August 1914 |
Australia, Britain and Commonwealth nations enter the war |
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28 October 1916 |
Australian conscription referendum |
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20 December 1917 |
Australian conscription referendum |
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8 January 1918 |
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen-Point speech |
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11 November 1918 |
Armistice signed by Germany |
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28 June 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles signed |