Australia in Vietnam.

Anti-Communism and Forward Defence The Australian public had been manipulated into fearing that a monotholic 'red tide' of communism was coming to Australia, due to the strong anti-communist policy of the Liberal government. We became so convinced that the Liberal government were in power for 22 years straight. Menzies stated that "the takeover of South Vietnam would be a direct military threat to Australia," as the "Domino Theory" claimed that unless this was stopped then after …showed first 75 words of 1419 total…

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