| A | B |
|---|
| ANZUS | post WWII Pact between Australia, New Zealand and USA |
| SEATO | South East Asian Treaty Organisation, signed in September 1945 |
| KOREA | where the first United Nations action took place post WWII |
| COMMUNISM | feared by many peaple after the end of WWII |
| CONTAINMENT | American policy to try stop the spread of communism |
| DOMINO | theory that believed one nation after another would succumb to communism |
| ADENAUR | German Chancellor who first posed the idea of the Domino effect in Europe after WWII |
| MENZIES | Australian Prime Minister whose government had a very strong anti-communist policy |
| REFERENDUM | held on 22 Sept 1951 to try to overrule the High Court's decision to dissallow the Communist Party Dissolution Bill |
| PETROV | Russian who defected and was accused of being a spy in 1954 |
| DLP | Democratic Labor Party - formed after the split of the Labor as a result of the Petrov Affair |
| VIETCONG | members of the South Vietnamese liberation forces fighting for the communist north |
| 1965 | year American forces landed in Vietnam |
| CONSCRIPTION | a lottery whereby 20 yr old men were selected to serve in the army |
| ALLIANCES | commitment to these was one of the main reasons for Australia entering into the Vietnam War |
| INDONESIA | Australia was concerned that Indonesia was communist and would become a threat |
| SUKARNO | leader of Indonesia in the early 1960s; overthrown by alleged communist forces in 1965 |
| ADVISERS | first type of assistance that Australia provided to South Vietnam 1962 - 1964 |
| HASLUCK | Australian Foreign Minister |
| NATIONAL SERVICE | military service for a country |
| NASHOS | slang term for conscripts during the Vietnam war |
| LBJ | Lydon Baines Johnson: US President who visited Australia in 1966 |
| HOLT | Australian Prime Minister who used the phrase "all the way with LBJ" in his Washtington speech in 1966 |
| YCAG | Youth Campaign Against Conscription, formed in November 1964 |
| SOS | Save Our Sons organisation, formed in 1965 |
| WHITE | school teacher who refused to accept conscription |
| ASKIN | NSW Premier whose attitude to anti-communist demonstators was "run the bastards over" |
| LANGER | leader of the anti-war group Students for a Democratic Society |
| MORATORIUM | movement that developed in 1969 - 1970 to co-ordinate peaceful protest marches |
| WHITLAM | Labor Prime Minister who withdrew all remaining Australian personnel from Vietnam in December 1972 |
| DEFOLIATION | practice of using chemical agents to destroy jungle vegetation during the Vietnam War |
| ORANGE | a defoliant agent used in the Vietnam War |
| SCHUMAN | writer of the song "I was only nineteen" |
| HO CHI MINH | leader of the nationalist and communist Vietmihn |
| HANOI | capital of North Vietnam |
| RSL | returned solders group that supported Australia's entry into the Vietnam War |
| VVAA | Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia |
| REFUGEES | people fleeing their country and seeking asylum and resettlement |
| INDOCHINA | term used to refer to mainland South East Asia: mainly Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand |
| LONG TAN | battle in which Australian soldiers fought with extreme bravery |
