for it to reach Australia and fight it here. The Korean War was a part of our government’s ’Forward Defense Policy’. Military action was sent to Korea to help our allies to fight communism overseas. Another response to communism in Asia was the ANZUS Treaty which was one of the most important steps that Australia took to protect Australia from the threat of communism. The treaty was an agreement signed by Australia‚ New Zealand and the United States; it meant that each of the three nations involved
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involved with the world as a form of forward defence. In an attempt to contain the spread of communism Australia formed more international treaties with what Menzies called the Australians’ “great friends and allies”. Such treaties included the ANZUS Treaty‚ which was between Australia‚ the United States and New Zealand‚ and SEATO‚ a treaty formed for the protection of South-East Asia. The main reason behind all these treaties was US President Truman’s policy of containment‚ or the Truman Doctrine
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FEAR OF COMMUNISM The Cold War stimulated the ‘fear of communism’‚ which had extremely cohesive and divisive implications amongst Australian society and politics. The fear of communism exercised it’s powerful influence over the minds of Australians from about 1949 with the beginning of the Cold War and the communist revolution in China‚ until about the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War in 1972. Through close examination of the ALP split as a result of the Communist Party Dissolution
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responsibility to America. After World War I Australia knew it could not defend itself against any enemy on its home ground‚ so Menzies sought to strengthen Australia’s relationships with United States and Britain relying on “great and powerful friends”. The ANZUS treaty (1951) and the SEATO treaty (1954) were a way to create a closer link to America‚ although it does not say that US must help Australia’s it gives them a closer relationship. The SEATO treaty linked the United states‚ Britain‚ France‚ Australia
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Christian Scofield Period 4 Foreign Policy and National Defense Chapter 17 America’s foreign policy has been changing greatly over time. The policy is actually a grouping of different policies on all of this nation’s positions‚ actions‚ and ideas about what goes on in the world. Foreign policy is everything that a nation does in relation to other nations. The CIA runs intelligence operations worldwide‚ while the Department of Homeland Security is tasked with protecting America from terrorist attacks
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4. How has war shaped Australia in the twentieth century? Australia has been shaped through war since soldiers set to the First World War right up until the now with the war in Afghanistan. Aspects that made it controversial ideas from being a colony of Britain and the politics that came with it‚ development of treaties with other countries‚ social groups‚ and family honour. Being that Australia was apart of the British monarchy Australia sent many thousands of troops to fight for Britain during
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We joined the Vietnam War in 1950 to try and stop the flow of communism as Australia‚ as a whole‚ believed in the domino effect where communism takes control of a country one by one. Another of the government’s responses was the ANZUS treaty and SEATO alliance. The ANZUS treaty included Australia‚ New Zealand and the United States of America‚ and meant that if one of the nations involved was attacked‚ the other two were obliged to help. Australia signed this because the government believed that we
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When France carried out its first atmospheric test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific in 1966‚ it allowed a concentrated centre for NZers to direct their anti-nuclear protests towards. The NZ protests towards French nuclear testing in the Pacific was a significant event because it was a milestone for the protest movement in NZ‚ cementing our position as a country that would speak out when our morals were in violation and would not be barred by political bureaucracy that moved slower than the pace
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respond to Australias involvement in the Vietnam War? • What was the impact of the war on Australia and/or neighbouring countries? Learn About; 1) Australias response to the threat of communism in Asia after WWII including: Korean War ANZUS Treaty SEATO Alliance 2) The response to the threat of communism within Australia including: referendum to ban the Communist Party the Petrov Affair 3) Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War 4) Differing views of Australia’s
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• After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1916 with First Class Honours in Law‚ Menzies was admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in 1918. In 1920 Menzies served as an advocate for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers which eventually took its appeal to the High Court of Australia. The case became a landmark authority for the positive reinterpretation of Commonwealth powers over those of the States. The High Court’s verdict raised Menzies’s profile as a skilled
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