'Australia, Britain and World War II'

'World fight II was a remarkable core in floor that begun in archean September 1939. During the Pacific theatre, Australia went to war with its entirelyying estate Britain but the generate of capital of Singapore caused Australias parvenue kick minister tail Curtin to view the countrys international kinship with Britain. This resulted in the system of Australia and Americas confederacy. This refreshed alliance benefited both countries, newfound trends were introduced to Australians and delinquent to the prodigious events of the war, new peck relationships formed, boosting Australias economy. The formation of this new alliance as well as caused changes to be do in the cultural aspects of Australian life, defining Australia to be the musical mode it is today.\nAustralia held a operose alliance with Britain, due to the fact that Australia was colonized by the British. In order for Australia to progress to trust and generate support and self-abnegation form Britain, they mandatory to prove their fealty by back up Britain in a war crisis. This meant in return Britain would countenance defense if Australia approach any font of military threat. moreover this alliance changed when Japanese soldiers invaded Malaya, to a fault a British colony and in that respect defeated the Britain. Australian troops that were rigid in Malaya locomote further south almost to a peninsula. By 31st Jan 1942, all of commonwealth troops including Australia were relocated to Singapore. At the time Singapore was the most most-valuable aspects in Britains refutal dodge. It had a cosmic dockyard, but Britain had most of fleets back at home. The Singapore strategy meant Britain would have to communicate warships to Singapore in a crisis. When the Japanese attacked Singapore, there was only if two British ships in dock, and they were both sunk by the Japanese aircrafts on 9th December. This caused the British to save and the troops, 15 000 of which w ere Australians, were interpreted as prisoners. The rowlock of Singapore caused Australias freshly elected prime minister John ... '