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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
Timeline
18 May – 29 July 1899 |
First Hague Convention |
15 June – 18 October 1907 |
Second Hague Convention |
28 July 1914 |
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia |
4 August 1914 |
Australia, Britain and Commonwealth nations enter the war |
28 October 1916 |
Australian conscription referendum |
20 December 1917 |
Australian conscription referendum |
8 January 1918 |
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen-Point speech |
11 November 1918 |
Armistice signed by Germany |
28 June 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles signed |
10 January 1920 |
Treaty of Versailles enforced |
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The League was born |
1 December 1925 |
Locarno Pact signed |
1 February 1932 |
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments |
22 May 1936 |
Australia declares trade war on Japan |
25 June 1936 |
Japanese Boycott on Australian wool, wheat and flour |
4 July 1936 |
Final League Assembly meeting |
1 January 1937 |
Tentative agreement between Australia and Japan |
16-19 September 1937 |
Australian Peace Congress |
17 July 1936 |
Spanish Civil War commences |
1 April 1939 |
Spanish Civil War finishes |
1 September 1939 |
German invasion of Poland |
2 September 1939 |
British & French joint ultimatum on Germany |
3 September 1939 |
Britain & France declare war on Germany |
8 May 1945 |
Germany surrenders |
26 June 1945 |
United Nations Charter signed |
2 September 1945 |
Japan formally surrenders |
24 October 1945 |
UN officially came into existence |
8 April 1946 |
Final League Assembly meeting |
20 April 1946 |
League ceased to exist |