Why Did Australia Win The Cold War Essay

The cold war was a silent conflict between the East and West; a war based on being threatened by different ideologies. The world was hungry for power, to make their nation superior to one another. The cold war and Australia’s involvement has a large chapter in the books of history; political manipulation to increase Australia’s position of power. This essay will outline the motivation in the Australian political positions to aid the Unites States; the reason Australia joined in the Cold War. Using the Parliamentary Debate by Sir Robert Menzies, and then the newspaper entry by Australian ambassador Allan Renouf. The reasons for involvement, mainly include the seek of the United States aid as an ally in a powerful world, and the prevention of

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy caused the next political heir to gain power; President Lyndon Baines Johnson. LBJ was fanatical about the idea of liberating the South-East Asia region entirely of Communist rule. He used his political point of power to encourage the people that communist liberation was a necessity. During the time, the Australian Labor Party had a split, forming Democratic Labor Party. Due to the divide in the party, the election was guaranteed to be won by the Conservative party, of which had heavy support for the engagement in Vietnam. The Australian (Liberal) Prime Minister Harold Holt followed closely to the Americans; he used the same leverage tactics to encourage the Australian people that the spread of Communism throughout south-east Asia was a genuine threat to the security of both their nation and Capitalist ideology they were currently under. Harold Holt emphasised to the nation that an alliance with the United States would gain them security in the future, and to gain this support or “favour” from the US, Australia would have to deploy soldiers to Vietnam to help the attempt of liberating communism in the nation. Australian ambassador Allan Renouf, stated “closeness of relations with the United States and sense of mutual alliance that in our time and need, after we have shown reasonable restraint and good sense, the United States would have little option but to respond as we would want”, emphasising that the use of Australian forces in the Vietnam war was to ensure future Australian security by the United