Chapter 9 - Vietnam War Era

Question 1

USA

Answer 1

Capitalist democracy

Question 2

Soviet Union

Answer 2

Communist totalitarian state

Question 3

China

Answer 3

1949-fell to communism after Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party to victory

Question 4

Cold War

Answer 4

1945-1991

Tension between the Soviet Union and the USA

Question 5

How many communist nations were there in 1945? 1949?

Answer 5

1 then 12

Question 6

When did Robert Menzies become PM?

Answer 6

1949

Question 7

Australia & Communism

Answer 7

• threat to Australia
• Australia couldn’t defend itself
• Australia had to prove loyalty as an ally
• forward defence was Australia’s best interest

Question 8

Korean War

Answer 8

• broke out in June 1950
• president Truman saw this as a clear example of communist aggression
• 16 UN members sent in troops
• July 1950-Australia sent in troops
• ended in 1953

Question 9

ANZUS Treaty

Answer 9

• Australia, NZ & US signed

- binds each power by a sense of obligation

Question 10

SEATO

Answer 10

September 1954 (S/E Asia Treaty Org)
USA, France, Britain, Australia, NZ, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines

Question 11

Malaya

Answer 11

1948-communism came

1955-Aus sent in troops & left in 1960

Question 12

Australian Communist Party

Answer 12

Formed in 1920

Menzies attempted to ban it

Question 13

Communist Party Dissolution Bill

Answer 13

April 1950

Labor opposed bill as it challenges basic human rights

Question 14

Petrov Affair

Answer 14

13 April 1954

• Vladimir Petrov asked for political asylum and provided details of a Russian spy ring in Australia
• Confirmed fears of communism

Question 15

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 15

Nationalist
Political figure in Indochina
-1931-found Indochinese Communist Party
-led north Vietnam

Question 16

Vietcong

Answer 16

Formed in 1960 by various nationalist groups in South Vietnam
-National Liberation Front

Question 17

Vietminh

Answer 17

1941

Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam

Question 18

Australia in the Vietnam War

Answer 18

• 28/4/1965- Aus persuaded South Vietnam’s PM to request for troops
• 29/4-‘request’ arrived and Menzies told parliament that help was requested and troops would be sent to Vietnam

Question 19

LBJ

Answer 19

Visited in October 1966

Greeted by supporters & protestors

Question 20

Nashos

National Servicemen

Answer 20

Young men serving as a result of conscription

Question 21

Conscription

Answer 21

Men required to register for service for 2 years at 20 years old

• 40% of soldiers in Vietnam result of conscription
• abolished 1972 (Whitlam)

Question 22

SOS

Answer 22

May 1965

Question 23

1970 moratorium marches

Answer 23

May 1970-Melbourne

Question 24

Troops came home

Answer 24

Feb 1972

50000 served

Question 25

Vietnam

Answer 25

Nov 1 1955 | April 30 1973