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Title: World War 2, The Cold War Notes
Description: Year 10 level of history notes that includes the cold war, World War 2 and Australia's Involvement.
Description: Year 10 level of history notes that includes the cold war, World War 2 and Australia's Involvement.
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• THE CONTINUING EFFORTS POST WW2 TO ACHIEVE PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE
WORLD, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT IN UN PEACEKEEPING
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Australia was part of the
very first group of UN military observers in Indonesia, 1947
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Today the media can fill a similar role, but military observers with a
peacekeeping operation are more impartial and can use their military training to assess
a situation more accurately
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For the first time, RAN ships took part in a peacekeeping
operation, enforcing UN-‐imposed sanctions against Iraq both before and after the Gulf
War
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• THE NATURE OF THE COLD WAR; AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLD WAR
AND POST-‐COLD WAR CONFLICTS (KOREAN VIETNAM, GULF WARS, AFGHANISTAN),
INCLUDING THE RISING INFLUENCE OF ASIAN NATIONS SINCE THE END OF THE COLD
WAR
o 1945-‐1989
o The Cold War is a name given to the relationship between USA and USSR (Soviet Union)
in 1945 after World War 2
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The Cold War
was when political relations between countries were hostile and there was a continuous
military threat
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The War represented an extremely serious threat to world peace
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It
aimed to defend its member states against the perceived threat of Soviet aggression
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§ A military treaty that binds the countries together and are still in place today, but
changed slightly when New Zealand did not agree with the US nuclear activities and did
not send troops to Iraq in 2003 but Australia did
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The South East Asia Treaty Organisation was created by the signing of the Manilla
Pact in 1954 in the Philippines, it was dissolved in 1977 after the US withdrawal from
Vietnam
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• THE CONCEPTS OF DOMINO THEORY AND FORWARD DEFENCE
o The Domino Theory is part of the Cold War and is wrapped up in the power struggle
between the super powers of the USSR and the USA
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• REASONS FOR AUSTRALIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE VIETNAM WAR
o Indonesia is our closest neighbour and Aus
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o Fear of communism; The domino theory was governed by the U
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It held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly
lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighbouring states
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He was a firm believer in the American policy of
containment
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o It had tried to ban the Communist Party in 1950-‐51 as it believed that Australia had a
commitment to support its ally the U
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o SEATO -‐ The focus was to stop communism and to financially support democratic
governments in South East Asia
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§ Part of SEATO said that if Indochina was ever threatened by communism then SEATO
would get involved
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o Around 100 000 people marched – MELBOURNE
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200 people were arrested
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o 3rd Moratorium; nearly 100 000 people marched in Melbourne, June 1971
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o It was a peaceful demonstration with no arrests made
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Many
ordinary Australians were opposed to the moratorium
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The government did not overreact and employ any heavy-‐handed strategies to
deal with the Moratorium marchers
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o Many people went against their families’ and friends’ beliefs to march in the
moratoriums, some even disguised themselves to not be recognized
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o Conscription of nation’s you to fight it
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o The aim of this movement was to demonstrate the strength and power behind the anti-‐
war movement
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• HOW DID THE MOVEMENT TAKE PLACE? WHAT METHODS OR STRATEGIES WERE USED
AND WHY?
o The movement was mostly a peaceful protest
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o Thousands of people stopped work for the day and marched in the streets to protest
American involvement in the war
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They were
surprised at the level of anti-‐government feeling in the country
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Aussies no longer wanted the prestige that supposedly came with fighting
wars, and they no longer agreed with the ‘Forward Defence’ policy
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The
moratoriums led up to the 1972 federal election, which was a promise to end
conscription that happened, part of the Labor campaign
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Title: World War 2, The Cold War Notes
Description: Year 10 level of history notes that includes the cold war, World War 2 and Australia's Involvement.
Description: Year 10 level of history notes that includes the cold war, World War 2 and Australia's Involvement.