Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... Nowhere was this trend more evident than in the region of South-east Asia, where the Japanese occupation, even if it achieved nothing else, destroyed the myth of white supremacy for good and all. ... (Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. ... Bao Dai was another figure on the political scene in the South. ... A number of Viet Minh remained in the Sout...

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"A final battle was over the provisions of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement. ... South Vietnam was still being defeated and needed a serious intervention from America. ... The Truman Doctrine, which was initially meant for Europe and the Middle East, was adopted and used by future presidents and applied the new Vietnam conflict. ... It was now obvious that the problem of communism went much further than just Europe and the Middle East and this alone proved to America that communism anywhere was a threat. ... Due to this fact, many South Vietnamese joined together aga...

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Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. ...

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The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, instead persuaded Roosevelt that it would be wiser to begin an invasion of North Africa. ... Almost all of Eastern and South-Eastern was under the control of the Soviet Union, but the allies urgently sought to change this. One of the primary reasons the Western nations were so determined to wrestle Eastern and South-Eastern Europe back from the clutches of the Soviet Union was that it would strengthen the Western economy. ... They looted and destroyed 40,000 hospitals and medical centers, 84,000 schools and colleges, 43,000 public libraries (which...

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