Why was Australia involved in the Vietnam War? Australia became involved in the Vietnam War for a number of reasons. The main reasons included the fear of the spread of communism‚ Australia’s alliance with the USA and Australia’s membership of SEATO. In the years after World War 2 Australians feared that communism would spread through South-East Asia and eventually to Australia. The fear grew more when China became a communist state is 1949‚ the reason why China became a communist state was
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Why Did Australia become involved in WW1? Australia became involved in World War One in August 1914’‚ as Britain was preparing to declare war on Germany. At the time Andrew Fisher (future Australian prime minister) promised that Australia would stand behind their mother country. He believed this war to be a noble cause where Australians could demonstrate their loyalty. As Australia is still part of the British Empire‚ our loyalty was pressured into joining the war and fighting for what they
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Why did America become involved in WWI? How did President Wilson justify his decision to enter the war in 1917? Was the war in the national interest? At the start of 1917‚ the United States and its president was not interested in fighting in the war. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to remain neutral. Even though 2 years earlier in 1915‚ a Germen u-boat destroyed the R.M.S Lusitania‚ in which 128 Americans were lost. The United States was interested in selling weapons and help with funding the allies
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Situation Aurora Borealis LLC is a hedge fund that has around $ 3 billion under management and they are currently targeting William Wrigley Jr. Company to make their next investment. William Wrigley Jr. Company is the biggest chewing gum manufacturer in the world and it has no debt yet. Aurora Borealis is trying to convince Wrigley to do a leveraged recapitalization through a dividend or share repurchase. So Wrigley has to make
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Living in the U.S today with a political election coming up I believe it is important to be involved in the voting process. As young adults‚ we as juniors and seniors almost of age to vote really should in my opinion should be paying attention to the election more than they ever have. The reason for that is due to the fact that the U.S has one of the lowest voter turnout of any country in the world while the U.S in 2012 56% of voters turned out while some countries will get up to 95% voter turnout
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States attempted to stay out of the war. However‚ they had many reasons as to why they chose to stay neutral‚ the cost of war is very expensive‚ both financially and in the cost of losing lives. There was also a concern of their side losing the war. Continuing‚ the U.S. felt that it was a European problem and the U.S. did not really need to get involved. Lastly‚ there was the issue of trade. If the U.S. chose to get involved in the war‚ they could lose their trading relations with Europe. This would
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Role of Finance Companies Traditional role of Finance Companies The finance companies are much smaller in scale compared with commercial banks‚ and they are also saddled with more restrictions which will be discussed later in the report. Traditionally‚ they relied on their personalized and flexible services to attract clients. This is because there are always consumers who are rejected by the commercial banks because adding these consumers to their portfolios would be uneconomical for these commercial
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2005). Why have Chinese companies found the emerging markets of Africa less risky and a more attractive proposition than western multinationals? ! For more than five years now‚ China has been the most important trade partner of Africa (OECD‚ 2011). Its growing investments in the African continent show the definite long-term interest that the Asian country has in Africa. When comparing the manner and the effectiveness of doing business in Africa of Chinese companies and of western companies‚ a lot
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To what extent was socialism involved in the Meiji Restoration? The Meiji Restoration was one of the fastest and most effective political‚ social and economic overhauls of an entire country. In merely one generation Japan as a country unified and became one of the most powerful countries in the world. Yet were the changes fundamentally socialist or just incorporated aspects of socialism? When viewing it at as a whole‚ the Meiji Restoration did exhibit ideas from the majorly state socialism but
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Explain (and give examples of) what is meant by Social Facilitation and Co-action. Make the difference of the two clear. Triplett’s (1898) experiments demonstrate the phenomenon of the co-action effect‚ showing how improved task performance is generated by the presence of others involved in the same task. His experiment of “dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition”‚ where the comparison of a cyclist racing the clock around a track‚ as opposed to racing another cyclist‚ or with a pace maker
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