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Unit 3: National experiences in the Modern World (Australia 1914 to 1949)
Quick questions on Causes of Australian involvement in World War I: imperial loyalty, politics and the 1914 social order (QCE Modern History Unit 3)
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What is the imperial relationship?Show answer
The imperial relationship was the central thread. Three features of it mattered.
What is constitutional?Show answer
A British declaration of war legally bound Australia. There was no separate Australian decision to make at the constitutional level.
What is strategic?Show answer
The Empire was a defence system. Australia's external security rested on the Royal Navy and the assumption that British power would deter Japan in the Pacific.
What is sentimental?Show answer
Most Australians identified culturally as British and treated the war as a family obligation. This is why Fisher's "last man and last shilling" speech provoked little controversy and was repeated approvingly in the press.
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