- Title
- World War to Whitlam: the strategy, alliances and foreign policies of Australia's Cold War
- Creator
- Reynolds, Wayne
- Relation
- Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788 p. 493-501
- Relation
- http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1019&product_isbn=9780170132107
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Australia's Cold War of the 1960s, at home and abroad, was dominated by its highly controversial intervention in the Vietnam War. Between 1962 and 1972, 50,000 Australian troops served in Vietnam, 520 of whom were killed. At home opposition to the war and to the conscription of troops mounted, assisted by the rising social activism of young Australians. Vietnam remains the most enduring event in Australia's social memory of the 1960s, yet it was only a small part of the foreign, defence and strategic policies of Australia's Cold War. It also promotes a myth which suggests that Australia's postwar defence policy was entirely linked to that of the United States. Wayne Reynolds argues that Australia's postwar interests abroad, particularly within the region, were far more complex and that they were shaped by the lingering importance of the British Empire, predictions of further conventional and nuclear warfare, Australia's own regional ambitions and, of course, the increasing importance after 1956 of the American alliance. Here he thoroughly examines the foreign and strategic policy issues experienced by Australia in its Cold War.
- Subject
- Vietnam War; conscription; social activism; Australia; defence policy; foreign policy
- Identifier
- uon:6695
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804678
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780170132107
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