History of Australia 5/6

By BookWorm7

  • Exploration and Colonization

    Exploration and Colonization
    British explorer, James Cook, claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain.

  • Colonization Begins

    Colonization Begins
    British settlement of Australia begins

  • Aborigines Under British Rule

    Aborigines Under British Rule
    Living conditions in the settlements are described in a letter written to the British Queen Victoria from a group of Aborigines.

  • Colonization Begins

    Colonization Begins
    Colonists discovered gold and the British population soared.

  • The Pacific Islands

    The Pacific Islands
    By early 1900's, the U.S., Japan, Great Britain, and France controlled most of the Pacific Islands.

  • Independence

    Independence
    New Zealand gained their independence peacfully.

  • Independence

    Independence
    Most Pacific Islands won independence peacefully in the 1960's.

  • Independence

    Independence
    Samoa won independence from the nonviolent Mau movement.

  • Conflict in Australia

    Conflict in Australia
    British colonists took Aboriginal children away from their families. This carried on through the 1960' s.

  • Australia and New Zealand

    Australia and New Zealand
    Since the 1970's, many numbers of Asians and Pacific Islanders have moved to the two countries of New Zealand and Australia.