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PERIOD
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EVENTS DURING PERIOD
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1899-1913
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Boer War
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1914-1938
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World War 1;
Treaty of Versailles; Western Samoan mandate; member League of Nations; Kellogg-Briand Pact; opposed Italian invasion Abyssinia
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1939-1946
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World War 2;
founder member U.N.
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1947-1951
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Malayan Emergency;
Korea; ANZUS
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1952-1975
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Malayan Emergency; SEATO;
Vietnam; bilateral aid to Cook Islands to build airport; French to World Court
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1976-1998
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Falklands War; CER; Nuclear Free Act; Gulf War; U.N. Security Council; French to World Court; Bosnia peacekeeping; Famine relief to Somalia
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1999-2000
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East Timor peacekeeping
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2001-2002
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Afghanistan and the "War on Terror";
Cyclone Zoe aid for the Solomons
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