... were unable to undertake more than guerrilla operations. By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. The PLA controlled the border with Vietnam, contact was made with the Viet Minh and the way was open for large scale support. In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses ... in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with ... ...

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... improve its defense. Australia eventually acted in response by sending 30 military advisers to Vietnam, their arrival in South Vietnam between July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. The main reason for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was to bring to an end to communism. Communism, also known as the Red Menace is a political and economic theory in which a country's wealth and resources ... of Australian and New Zealand and United States (ANZUS) which tied America into the defense of Australia. Since ANZUS had tied Australia and th...

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... were unable to undertake more than guerrilla operations. By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. The PLA controlled the border with Vietnam, contact was made with the Viet Minh and the way was open for large scale support. In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses ... in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with ... ...

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... extent is this true?" The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. The war lasted from 1965-1972 during this period changes and support of the war changed and became less throughout the years. Political groups, social and religious groups all shaped the public's support of the war. Views of Save Our Sons, the Catholic Church and Menzies Government will ... as they became more aware of what was happening in the war, people became more and mess unsupportive of the Australian war efforts and numbers in antiwar groups grew...

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... under threat they would be indebted to assist us. It was also our way of ensuring their presence in the region by supporting them so they would not lose interest or fervor concerning the security of the region. At the time of the Vietnam War, Australia was not only undergoing a political revolution, but also a social revolution. More so than ever before ... , people were expressing their views freely, and with the Vietnam War and conscription being the most controversial issues of the time, they naturally drew a considerable amount of ... attention. Numerous rallies occurred, protesting ...

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... there are still disagreements between Australia and other nations such as Malaysia has criticised Australia's involvement in the War on Terror and thus has damaged Australia's relationships in the region. Other Southeast Asian nations including Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have been less active in the war on terrorism and thus there has been little effect on Australia's relations with these nations. Thus, ... have not been as vocal or have been indifferent to the "war on terror". Thailand has not been vocal in their support of the US, however have increased their efforts to ...

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... forms of civil disobedience as acting from moral principle and political conscience for the public good (Goodman, 2002; Nussabaum, 2002). Throughout the history of Australia there have been a number of social movements and civil uprisings which have included: the McCarthy movement (1950s), Trade unionism (1950s), the movement against 54B and the Vietnam War (1960s), anti-war protests, anti-corporate globalisation, and ecological and green movements (Burgmann, 1993). For ... the purpose of this essay I will be examining one global movement that had a direct impact on Australia; the Indig...

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... Australia as an independent country dates back to the beginning of the 20th century – on 1st January 1901 the first six colonies formed the Commonwealth of Australia. Since that moment Australia participated in the large number of conflicts across the world. Australian soldiers took part in WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, etc. The gained experience out of these conflicts led to the reform of military forces in Australia which ... allowed the creation of ADF (Australian Defence Force), the change of military doctrine and the new approach of the continental defence strategy to be adopte...

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... threat from communist guerrillas. While these are good examples the most obvious use of the policy was the Vietnam War in the late 1960's to 1970's in which forces from USA and Australia moved into South Vietnam to stop the spread of communism from the north. Since these wars communism has died out as a threat to the region. The policies have changed from stopping communism to stopping terrorism and ... started massive protests in a plea to the government to soften the White Australia Policy. Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian home...

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... Australia was governed by Britain, most of the migrants were white. The whites also had all the rights and controlled all forms of structure in the society, and to ensure that this continued the government established a "White Australia" policy. Only peoples from the British Isles were accepted as worthy migrants. During World War 11, Australia became very vulnerable with the threat of being attacked by Japan. We ... must "Populate or Perish" was the thought of the era, as the threat of invasion from the more populated areas of Asia seemed real to Australians of the time. To increase it...

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... Menzies, and the blatant exploitation of Australia's land, through atomic bomb tests, and its people, through various wars often fought on the other side of the world. He exposes the manipulation of Australian political events by the CIA, often through our own intelligence agency, ASIO and the unquestioning tag along that Australia was during the pointless Vietnam War. And the Australian government is ... repeating its mistakes in the recent invasion of Iraq, apparently to destroy weapons ... of mass destruction, then to liberate the Iraqi people because those weapons may not even exist...

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... . In Australia, there was a desperate shortage of labour and a growing belief that substantial population growth was essential for the country's future. These and other factors led to the creation of a federal immigration portfolio in 1945. By 1947, a post-war immigration boom was under way, with a large and growing number of arrivals of both government-assisted and other immigrants. Agreements ... At various times in the 1950s and 1960s, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia were important migrant source countries. There were also significant intakes: Of Hungaria...

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