Australia in the 1920's The Australian lifestyle changed greatly in the 1920's, and mostly for the better. ... Silent films fascinated Australian audiences and low admission prices led to Australia having the highest film attendance rate in the world. ... The domino theory threatened the Australian government, as the trend of socialist theories quickly spread. ... The Australian government and industry leaders were threatened by the speed and size of the pro-Communist views among the workforce. In an attempt to strike back at the Communist movement the government released numerous...

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After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. ... The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free nations had to stop communism from spreading around the world. But this was not the first time the Australian Army had been involved in Vietnam. In 1962 a team of 30 Australian military instructors was sent to Saigon. ... It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor governme...

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Just over 60,000 Australia soldiers fought in the war with 521 Australian's killed and approximately 3,000 wounded. ... While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. ... If this happened Australia would have been surrounded by communism and this could have very well taken over Australia. Australia wanted to stop communism in its tracks. ... If Australia didn't fulfill the requirement these alliances could be terminated, leaving Australia almost defenseless. ...

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HOW DID THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT RESPOND TO THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA? ... In 1917, the monarchy was overthrown and the world's first communist government was formed. ... But during this time the Curtin Labor Government lifted the ban on the Communist Party of Australia. ... The Chifley Labor Government was then introduced and it brought private bank under government control and nationalised the airline QANTAS. ... Australia's form of government allowed its people freedom of opinion and allowed protests to occur. ...

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The Chinese government abolished higher education so many students come to Australia as exchange students to complete their higher education. ... Therefore consumer needs for higher quality of life is intervened by government through funding from taxation and the country's profit. ... Therefore government's intervention and private sectors help in order for consumer wants of an equal distribution of income to be fulfilled. ... The private sector and Government intervention dignifies the affect of unemployment which is in the need for more jobs. ... Therefore Government interventio...

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The Vietnam War was a prolonged conflict, extending from 1954 to 1975, between the communist government of North Vietnam and the non-communist government of the South. ... Initially, the Australian public paid little attention and were largely disinterested in a war that included very few Australian troops. ... Labor government immediately abolished this scheme following an election in October 1929. In November 1964, the National Service scheme was introduced by Robert Menzies and his government and it operated until December 1972, when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government suspended it. ...

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Socialism is an economic idea that states the government or state should be in charge of economic planning, production, and distribution of goods. In other words, the businesses are owned by the citizenry and government, rather than by individuals. ... In Socialism, competition is not prevalent, seeing as there is no one to compete with, the government being the sole owners of any businesses. ... This can also be defined as "free enterprise" in which the government does not interfere in business. ... Some capitalist countries include the United States, Ireland, England, Australia, Switzerl...

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The establishment of a communist government in China was an inspiration to all revolutionaries in South East Asia, especially China's neighbour, Vietnam. ... This ensured that the Viet Cong blended in with the everyday life of the villagers (who in most cases supported the VC), and ensured that the American, British, and Australian forces did not capture them. ...

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An eminent name in Western-Liberal thought is Richard Pipes, who has participated in many anti-Marxists engagements, including hand-picking by the US government in examining weapons from the Soviet regime. ... A forefront of Australian historians, and a studied revisionist, Sheila Fitzpatrick states that 'successful revolutions tear off masks' of historical opinions and occurrences. ...

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