One major purpose of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was to decide how to restructure Europe after the war. Early in World War II‚ Allied leaders decided that the enemy they had to defeat first was the Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union suffered high civilian and military casualties because it was invaded and partially occupied during World War II. The Yalta conference took place in Ukraine in 1945‚ 7 months before the second World War ended. It was clear that Germany was losing the war‚ the allies‚ the
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Elizabethan Religious Settlement The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was Elizabeth I’s response to the religious divisions created over the reigns of Henry VIII‚ Edward VI and Mary I. This response‚ described as "The Revolution of 1559"‚[1] was set out in two Acts of the Parliament of England. The Act of Supremacy of 1559 re-established the Church of England’s independence from Rome‚ with Parliament conferring on Elizabeth the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England‚ while the Act of Uniformity
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Evolution of Australian Biota A) Baragwanathia Baragwanthia fossils were first discovered in Yea‚ Victoria in 1875 and were first described as a lycopod which was derived from the Zosterophylls by Australia’s eminent pioneer botanist‚ Dr Isobel Cookson in 1935. The Fossils of Baragwanthia are believed to date back to the Silurian times. Baragwanthia had long pores which were roughly 1-2 millimetres in radius and is densely covered in leaves that are 4cm in length. The stems could be up
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dominate role in society effecting the way people dress and act. Music is a trend setter‚ which has caused some positives and negatives on culture. This task will present how it has affected each of the above examples from the years 1945 through to 1990. Music in 1945-1950 was heavily influenced by African-Americans. During this time the popular music was jazz‚ blues‚ and R & B. However‚ when Muddy waters added instruments such as piano‚ electric guitar and drums to blues‚ urban blues
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The narrator in the poem‚ A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6‚ 1945‚ is a doctor. The poem begins with a calm and serene note. The doctor says that it was dawn and he was in his bed‚ not fully clothed. When he stretched out and looked outside‚ he saw shining leaves and shadows. In the next moment‚ there were two sudden flashes of strong light and the old stone lantern in his room lit up by itself. The doctor wondered whether the flashes were magnesium flares seen during a war. In the next moment
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The Australian identity is a complex and ever changing image. It is impossible to define using one singular concept‚ event or symbol. The multicultural society Australia proudly hosts makes it difficult to develop and pin point an accurate and widely accepted national identity and idology. The three texts ’Then and Now ’ by Ooderoo of the tribe Noonuccal‚ ’Eucalyptus ’ by Murray Bail and ’Nobody Calls me a Wog anymore ’ by Kimninos‚ each reflect the different forces that have shaped and forged
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“Art doesn’t come from nowhere; it comes from a long line of human experience”-Rosalie Gascoigne Rosalie Gascoigne was a new-Zealand and Australian sculptor who worked and lived in Canberra. She moved to Australia when she was 26 in 1943 to marry her husband‚ Ben Gascoigne‚ who was an Australian astronomer. She was Born on the 25th of January 1917 in New-Zealand and died in 1999 on the 23rd of October in Australia. She never had any formal art training or education. Her art career began when
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“How did the Australian Government respond to the threat of communism both at home and overseas?” With the conclusion of World War II in 1945‚ the world was left divided between two different political beliefs of the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist and democratic United States. The rivalry between these two superpowers‚ known as the Cold War‚ threatened Australia’s peace & security‚ therefore the Australian Government was forced to respond to the threat of communism both at home & off
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from an undeveloped land mass to one of the world’s fastest-growing‚ strongest and wealthiest countries in the world. Australia has a higher GDP per capita than the United States today because of its constitutional monarchy (eNotes‚ 2011). Also‚ since 1945‚ hundreds of thousands of immigrants have left unstable republics for Australia and loved the social and political stability they found in it under a constitutional monarchy. A republic would only restrain Australia from reaching its full potential
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I will admit that I am rather new to the discussion on bigotry‚ privilege‚ and the various -isms. I was speaking with a female friend of mine a few months ago‚ and I remarked that women‚ on average‚ are less able to compartmentalize their emotions than men. She was (justifiably) irate‚ and I qualified myself. You see‚ I had never been explicitly exposed to the socially-propagated idea that women are emotionally unstable. When I found out‚ I felt rather embarrassed in not only being sexist‚ but
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