... 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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... us to cooperate wholeheartedly with France" (State Department). The United States provided support in the form of weapons, bombs, money, etc to French military. (intro)"In October 1949, US policy moved swiftly to full-scale material support of the French war against the Viet Minh" (Sponsoring French Colonialism). The United States indirectly intervened the Vietnam War by supplying military support in 1949. Vietnam [was not only] (not only held) a position ... of strategic importance in the Pacific Ocean, it also had tremendous economic value that would help the economic growth in the Un...

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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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... 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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... place in Asia was that several countries that had been colonized or semi-colonized emerged in the years following the War as independent, self-governing states, freed from colonial rule. In Southeast Asia, for example, between 1949 and 1959, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia attained independence. Singapore gained the right to self-governance in 1949. However in this region, two countries managed not only ... the Americans withdrawing from Vietnam, that the Japanese gained a strategic advantage in international politics. Japan had by this time reconstructed itself into an ...

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... by creating clearly defined borders which protected Cambodia from further invasions by Thailand and Vietnam, developed roads, railroads, developed cities and favored the rise of rubber plantations. Any following advancements despite these minor contributions would not come for another decade following their independence in the aftermath of World War II. In these stages Cambodia's economy remained strictly non-industrial with fishing, spice cultivation, agriculture ... were ethnic Khmer, who occupied themselves with rice farming and historians have deemed their economy a hydraulic econom...

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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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... do with historical timing, geographic reality and political necessity as it was with policy foresight. The period that was the 1960s produced a booming world economy, a relatively open and non-protectionist regime together with some huge U.S spending related to the Vietnam War which all aided to launch the take off of these countries. Export -orientation therefore, led these countries to gain better ... comparative advantage over other internationally produced products due to the low cost of production, a greater expansion of the domestic markets and technological change. Japan inevitabl...

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... founded in 1967 for strategic and security reasons as a result of the ending of confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia in 1966, and was made possible by a maturing of ideas about regional co-operation in Southeast Asia. It was also a reaction to the Vietnam War's uncertain outcome, and the need for the non-communist countries of Southeast Asia to get together in facing ... a possible withdrawal of the United States from the region. It is clearly seen that the establishment of this Association was due to political-security reasons. Aside from these reasons, ... , social, and cultur...

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