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Why Did Australia Fight In The Vietnam War? Why did we send 47,000 men and women to Vietnam?
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Why Did Australia Fight In The Vietnam War?
Why did we send 47,000 men and women to Vietnam?
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Fear of communism
• There was a growing fear of communism
• The invasion of the North Korean communists into democratic South Korea was seen as a threat to democracy
• Sending troops to Vietnam was a move to support democracy
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Situation in Vietnam
• Vietnam was once a colony of France• After WW2 the Vietnamese fought a war against the
French and became an independent country• The leader of this fight was Ho Chi Minh• He was a communist leader in Vietnam• Vietnam split in two at the 17th parallel in 1954
– The north was communist– The south was democratic
• The presence of communists in Vietnam worried countries like Australia and USA
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The Domino Theory
• Australian and American politicians felt that if Vietnam fell to communism then other countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia would also fall to the communists
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The Domino Theory
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Previous examples
• Australia’s involvement in the Korean War 1950 - 1953– Communist North Korea was fighting
democratic South Korea
• The Malayan Emergency 1955– Communists were becoming influential and
fighting a guerilla war in Malaya
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Previous examples
• Australia’s involvement in the Korean War 1950 - 1953– Communist North Korea was fighting
democratic South Korea
• The Malayan Emergency 1955– Communists were becoming influential and
fighting a guerilla war in Malaya
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PM Menzies…
• We have decidedand this has been after close consultation with the Government of the United States to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam
• There can be no doubt of the gravity of the situation in South Vietnam.
• The takeover of South Vietnam would be a direct military threat to Australia and all the countries of South and South-East Asia. It must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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Alliances
• ANZUS
• The ANZUS agreement of 1951.
• Australia, New Zealand and the United States agree to come to each other’s aid in the event of an attack
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Alliance
• SEATO• The SEATO Treaty of 1954.• This treaty set out that action would be taken
if the following countries were attacked: USA, Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand or Pakistan.
• South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were also guaranteed protection
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Australia sends troops to Vietnam
• The Australian government felt that the best way to deal with communist threats was to send troops to the threat
• In 1962 Australia sent 30 military advisers to assist US forces in South Vietnam
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Countries that went to war in Vietnam
• Eight countries supported South Vietnam in its struggle with North Vietnam– United States of America– Australia– New Zealand– South Korea– The Philippines– Thailand– Spain– Taiwan
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Open conflict escalates
• In 1964 the USA claimed that the North Vietnamese had bombed its ships in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam
• The USA began bombing raids on Vietnam
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Open conflict escalates
• Australia sent its First Infantry Batallion and HMAS Sydney to Vietnam in 1965
• Then, in 1966, Australia increased its military commitment in Vietnam by a factor of three
• Total war decsended on Vietnam
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