Vietnam War

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  1. 3. long period of international tension and confrontation between 1945 and 1991. The phrase ‘cold war’ was coined by writer George Orwell, who predicted a period of “horrible stability” where powerful nations or alliances, each capable of destroying the other, might refuse to communicate or negotiate.
  2. 9. a member of a Communist-dominated nationalist movement, formed in 1941, that fought for Vietnamese independence from French rule. Members of the Vietminh later joined with the Vietcong.
  3. 11. a social and political movement for obtaining and maintaining national identity and autonomy among a group of people that some of its members consider a nation. The underlying principle of its motivating ideology, nationalism, is to uphold national interest or national identity as the primary basis on which political decisions are made.
  4. 14. a political and economic ideology developed in the mid-19th century by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, based in the views that class struggle had determined history and capitalism is inherently exploitative and self-destructive by causing the mass of workers to rise up to overthrow the rich
  5. 15. opposition to or hostility toward empire building
  6. 16. defined as the deployment of troops across the approaches to Australia to prevent a potential enemy attacking it
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  1. 1. began with heavy U.S. intervention in the mid-1960s with the support of Australian troops to protect the South Vietnamese goverment, also known simply as the Vietnam War, which caused great destruction and loss of life. Ended in 1975 when the South Vietnamese government collapsed and was replaced (April 30) by a regime from dominated by the communist North.
  2. 2. a process supported by the United Nations, the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent. This began post WW2 as once powerful empires found they could no longer had the economic or military power to continue their rule.
  3. 4. strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States in the late 1940s and the early 1950s in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet Union.
  4. 5. Ho Chi Minh was impressed by this policy of US President Woodrow Wilson from 1918 policy for nations to be free to choose to not be part of an empire, such as the French.
  5. 6. generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina on December 19, 1946, and lasted until July 20, 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Việt Minh opponents in the south dated from September 1945.
  6. 7. a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
  7. 8. the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each, the ANZUS treaty is an example of such as treaty.
  8. 10. in May 1965 the Liberal government introduced new powers that enabled it to send conscripted servicemen to Vietnam, the Menzies government wished to raise the army's numbers to 40,000 in order to meet overseas commitments, required to serve for two years full-time in the regular army, and three years part-time in the reserves.From 1965 to 1972, 15,381 national servicemen served in the Vietnam War, with 200 killed and 1,279 wounded.surgency
  9. 12. a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states
  10. 13. one who takes a militant or combative attitude (as in a dispute) and advocates immediate vigorous action especially : a supporter of a war or warlike policy — compare dove entry
  11. 17. one who takes a conciliatory attitude and advocates negotiations and compromise especially : an opponent of war — compare hawk