Australia in the Vietnam War Era Task: Explain the impact of the Vietnam War in Australian Society. INTRODUCTION Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War impacted society in a variety of ways. Today we still deal with repercussions related directly to the Vietnam War. The War took place between 1959 and 1975‚ and Australia was directly involved between August 1962- June 1973. It was the longest war Australia was ever involved in and probably the most controversial. Our main purpose in the
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The Effect of the Vietnam War on Australia The controversial Vietnam War had a huge impact on Australian society in the 1960’s/1970’s. Australia’s involvement in the key international Cold War conflict of the Vietnam War created instability and a significant shift in the nation’s military‚ social‚ political and economic status. Vietnam was known as a ’TV War’. A great deal of shocking and violent footage of the war was broadcasted right into people’s homes. This caused a lot of social involvement
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Why did China get involved in the Korean war of 1950-1953? The Korea war first began as a civil war between North Korea (communist) and South Korea (capitalist). The war began in 1950 when the North Korean Army crossed the 38th parallel which divided North and South Korea and invaded non-communist South Korea. In October 1950‚ China got involved in the Korean War because they believed that the United State wanted to take over China’s land and people in order to make them capitalist. Korea is a country
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The Vietnam War is different when compared to other wars that the U.S has been involved in. It is different because it was not widely supported across the nation‚ it was physically different war‚ it was also lost because of government policies. One reason why the Vietnam War was different compared to other past wars is because it was not widely supported by the nation. There are many reasons why it was not supported‚ one of them being that the war was considered the first ‘television war’. The
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Why Australia became involved in WW1 They became involved in august 1914 because Britain was preparing to declare war on Germany. Australia became involved in WW1 for a lot of reasons. The first reason that they were involved in the first war is because of Australia’s mother country (Britain). Entering the war in 1914 via their deep connection to the British‚ troops from Australia and New Zealand fought mainly in the Middle East . As Australia is still a part of the British Empire‚ we were pressured
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The Spanish American War is one of the most prominent wars in U.S. history. The war began on April 21‚ 1898 due to many different reasons. The real questions is‚ for what reasons did the U.S. get involved in this war? Well‚ the Spanish American War began due to the fight for Cuban independence‚ Yellow Journalism‚ the Spanish governor’s response to Cuban rebels‚ the De Lôme letter‚ and the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine. The first factor was the fight for cuban independence. Jose Marti‚ a Cuban
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Paragraph 1: Why did the United State get involved in Iran? Iran is a country in the Middle East that got petroleum. For many years‚ Iran was ruled by shah and now it is ruled by a Muslim cleric. For many years the United States had oil companies in Iran. In 1950‚ all that changed when Mohammad Mossadegh became the leader of Iran. The United States got involved in Iran because of petroleum. Paragraph 2: Mohammad Mosaddegh was a secular democrat that was elected during the 1950 in Iraq as
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Why did Britain get involved in the Slave Trade? The Renascence period was a time full of new music‚ extravagant architecture and fine art. All of these things causing an increasing demand for funds from the government. In the 1440’s the Portuguese started trading slaves for various things with the Americans. Britain found out about this trade whilst their pirates were raiding Spanish ships and found them abroad. John Hawkins made the first known British slavery voyage in 1562; this started a
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As World War 2 ended and the Cold War began‚ communism began to expand from Russia into South-East Asia. China and North Korea became communist and communism continued to spread south as Vietnam became independent from the French after the battle of Dien Bien Phu resulting in the country being split at the 17th parallel into communist North and non-communist South. The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia‚ as they feared that Communist forces would gain
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The only time Australia has come under direct attack from another country‚ was when Japan bombed Darwin and sunk a number of ships in Sydney‚ during World War 2. The question then has to be asked‚ why Australia has been involved in so many conflicts. A number of recent conflicts in this century come to mind‚ they include‚ The Boer War‚ World War One‚ World War Two and The Vietnam War. By far the conflict that drew the most outrage from Australian citizens was the Vietnam War. Australia has been drawn
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