YEAR 10 : WORLD WAR II IN AUSTRALIA: Causes of World War II

The stock market crash of 1929  was the collapse of the United States stock market in October 1929. This abrupt decline in the value of the market was one of the pivotal events contributing to the Great Depression, a worldwide economic slump of the 1930’s.

In the second half of the 1920s, the Australian economy suffered from falling wheat and wool prices, and competition from other commodity-producing countries. Australia was also borrowing vast sums of money, which dried up as the economy slowed.
Then the Wall Street crash of 1929 led to a worldwide economic depression. The Australian economy collapsed and unemployment reached a peak of 32 per cent in 1932.It took Australia almost a decade to recover from the Great Depression.

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic slump of the 1930's. It ranked as the worst and longest period of high unemployment and low business activity in the 1900's.

This comprehensive resource covers many aspects of the war from an American perspective.

World War Two began in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany following Germany’s invasion of Poland. Although the outbreak of war was triggered by Germany’s invasion of Poland, the causes of World War 2 are more complex.

A list of significant dates from September 18, 1931 when Japan invades Manchuria, until September 2 1945, when Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.