Australia, Britain and World War II

World fight II was a remarkable event in taradiddle that begun in early folk 1939. During the pacific theatre, Australia went to war with its totallyying realm Britain but the fall of capital of capital of capital of Singapore caused Australias new prime subgenus Pastor John Curtin to reconsider the countrys world(prenominal) relationship with Britain. This resulted in the organic law of Australia and Americas alliance. This new alliance benefited twain countries, new trends were introduced to Australians and payable to the swelled events of the war, new trade relationships formed, boosting Australias economy. The system of this new alliance besides caused changes to be made in the cultural aspects of Australian life, influence Australia to be the way it is today.\nAustralia held a strong alliance with Britain, due to the fact that Australia was colonized by the British. In order for Australia to elevate trust and obtain concomitant and defence form Britain, they ne cessitate to prove their loyalty by supporting Britain in a war crisis. This meant in recidivate Britain would provide defense if Australia face up any type of host threat. However this alliance changed when Nipponese army invaded Malaya, also a British colony and thither defeated the Britain. Australian troops that were located in Malaya go further south to a peninsula. By 31st Jan 1942, all of commonwealth troops including Australia were move to Singapore. At the time Singapore was the most important aspects in Britains defence dodging. It had a large dockyard, but Britain had most of fleets backwards at home. The Singapore strategy meant Britain would have to send warships to Singapore in a crisis. When the Nipponese attacked Singapore, there was only cardinal British ships in dock, and they were two sunk by the Japanese aircrafts on 9th December. This caused the British to recant and the troops, 15 000 of which were Australians, were taken as prisoners. The fall of Singapore caused Australias newly elected prime rector John ...