Category: Australian history

Pages with category: Australian history

Australasia 1943

Operation Cartwheel

Their successes in New Guinea and...

Australasia 1944

Western New Guinea Campaign

From Pearl Harbor on, the Allied...

Australasia 1945

End of the Pacific War

By May 1945, Germany had been...

Australasia 1946

Japanese Surrender

Japan surrendered on August 15,...

Australasia 1947

Indonesian War of Independence

Just days after the Japanese...

Australasia 1950

United States of Indonesia

Dutch efforts to reconquer Indonesia...

Australasia 1951

ANZUS

By August 1950, the nationalists...

Australasia 1962

West New Guinea dispute

When the Netherlands recognized...

Australasia 1971

Independence for the Pacific Islands

The 1960s saw the beginning of the...

Australasia 1976

Indonesian invasion of East Timor

In 1974 Portugal's staunchly...

Australasia 1985

Breaking with Britain

As late as 1941, British dominance...

Australasia 1990

Bougainville Conflict

When Papua New Guinea (PNG) gained...

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