... 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 be focused on in the text. Menzies view on the Vietnam War was that at all costs it had to be fought by Australians and won, he ... two years and if they refused, they would be made to serve a prison sentence for two years instead. This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. SOS was completely against this idea of man they ...

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... Korea and Vietnam had both been occupied by colonial powers and were struggling for their own independence post World War Two. Korea had been occupied by Japan and Vietnam had been occupied by France. Korea was a short war, it lasted only three years, from 1950- 1953 whereas the American military ... this support, America's Korean campaign was unsuccessful, this was to some degree the fault of President Truman, who had not believed that the Chinese government would be prepared to intervene and he also underestimated the military power of China. Therefore, not wanting to engage in an all...

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... Vietnam through SEATO. Although they entered the war to protect Vietnam it later became a war for democracy in Asia. Some Vietnamese did want a democratic government but a Vietnam veteran stated, "We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice ... Vietnam then they could have accomplished both of their goals. During WWII Germany had control of a puppet state of France called Vicci, this enabled Japan to build military bases along the coast of Vietnam which was a French colony. At this time, the United States only g...

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... ruined. The Rosenberg's received the death penalty because of the accusation of being spies for Russia. The fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. Although President Lyndon Johnson feared Communism, his decision was incorrect to escalate troops in Vietnam; he should ... to fall to the Communists its" neighboring countries, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, would fall to communism as well. This theory is referred to as the domino theory. "Burma, Thailand, India, Japan,...

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