communism in Australia.
After 1945, all of the Australian governments were worried about the spread of communism. The Soviet Union’s control of Eastern Europe and the communist takeover of china in 1949 led many Australians to believe that communism was coming to Australia and communism will change the way of the Australian life. Australia quickly responded to the communist threat by fighting alongside in its western allies in Korea and Malaya. In the 1960s, Australia joined with the United States in the Vietnam cold war. The war in Vietnam became worse so that meant all the people who lived in Vietnam were shipped to Australia. At that time communism took over most of Vietnam including south East Asia.
responding to communist threats within Australia. banning the communist party
Robert Gordon Menzies was the longest serving Prime Minister in Australia’s history. He had been the prime minister twice, from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. Robert Menzies didn’t want Australia to become a communist country. In the late 1940's some of the communism had become a threat to Australia. So in 1949 Menzies made an election promise that:
“The communists are the most unscrupulous opponents of religion, of civilised government, of law and order, of national security......Communism in Australia is an alien and destructive pest. If elected we shall outlaw it”. |