... spirit means strength, courage and resourcefulness. Above all, the ANZAC spirit means loyalty to your comrades and friends. On April 25 1915, tens of thousands of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) soldiers, along with allies from Britain and France, stormed the beaches of Gallipoli. The aim was to capture the peninsula to clear the ... nor the Turks seemed to be winning. The Turkish forces were not knocked out of the war and the campaign was a terrible failure. More than 8000 Australian soldiers had died during that time and thousands of others had endured horrible wounds or d...

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... control, communication and intelligence. In 1998, a report was undertaken by the United States and Australia looking into the validity of maintaining Pine Gap. The report states: "Commitment of both the Australian and United States Governments to cooperation at the Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap. The Pine Gap Facility is an intelligence collection facility, which serves to support our mutual security ... of Alice Springs) was the object of protests during the 1980's and also throughout the Gulf War , where of which Australian Army personal were sent in to observe the protesters, and o...

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... II. In response to this formation, a Crimes Act was passed in Parliament which stated that if any person supported the overthrow of an existing Australian Government by violence, they would be guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment. During The Great Depression, members of the Communist International in Australia ... party between June 1940 and December 1942. By 1945, the Communist Party changed its name to the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Australian members of it had risen to over 40 000. At the end of World War II, the CPA was in a position to influence unions ... at ...

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... with the "fall" of South Vietnam to communist North Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia might also "fall" starting a communist chain reaction. Another reason why the Australian government sent Australians to serve in the Vietnam War was to fulfill their obligations as members of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO). SEATO is an alliance ... by the treaty. One aspect of the SEATO treaty was if a member country was attacked other members would help it. Therefore the Australian government felt obligated to assist the people of South Vietnam in their struggle for a life free from oppre...

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... forces served in the Vietnam War under the banner of the United States of America. The act of going to war, so common in Australian history, became perhaps the single most controversial issue in the short history of our nation. Whilst traditionally the populace were supportive of Australians in war, many were opposed to the idea of Australia fighting what was believed to ... society, Australia soon found itself fighting a war on two fronts; one in the jungles of Vietnam, and another in the city streets. The Vietnam War was a defining moment in our history, with our nation developing its...

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... seen through the media people back home in Australia were soon realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia ... Our Sons. Some more reasons why people wanted the troops home were. - It was costing a lot of money. - It was costing lots of lives. - It was the longest War in Australian history. - It was a civil war and we had nothing to do with it. - Pe...

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... and even though there was no act of war, this situation they found themselves in became known as the Cold War. Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied ... , the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Ro...

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