Many lives were lost in the Vietnam War, leaving many families to ponder about their loved ones and whether they would return safely this supports my argument which entitles the Vietnam War was horrible and has made a mark in history. “It took us not 5 minutes to decide that when this thing came to the point of action we would be in it, if invited by the government of South Vietnam”. Robert Menzies, 1969. Source 1. Australia got involved in the war in the year 1962 because they feared they would fall to communism by the domino effect. The domino effect in this context means if one country falls eventually the rest do as well. Also Australia believed they needed to fight the communists. “An act of support for our American allies, limited though …show more content…
At this time many Australia’s were scared of communism which was in Asia, when Australia commitment to Vietnam increased to a regular army battalion in 1965 there was a negative reaction. News got around that Australia would contribute a task force to the war in 1966 which caused a massive outrage of Anti-war groups. One of them is SOS which stands for save our sons. SOS is a group which was established in 1965 in Sydney but soon other groups performed under the SOS banner across the country. Both men and women became members of SOS but for the most part SOS was generally made up of middle class and middle aged women whose sons were old enough to be subjected to the national service. Other groups like this are drift resistance movement, students for a democratic society, the Monash pacifist society and the youth against conscription. These groups used to setup marches and protests and make posters to express their emotion and feelings. Also there were groups who wanted the war like the democratic labour party. They where an anti-communist party which was founded in a result of a split in the Australian labour