Australian History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (354) essays
Australian History essays:
Why did Australia join the Vietnam War?
... the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. This struggle quickly widened into a full scale international war and the US promptly sent troops to help South Vietnam in its struggle against North Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by communist USSR ...
How and Why Did American Popular Culture Influence Australian Society in the 1950s and 1960s? To What Extent Did Australia Develop its Own Response to these Influences?
... prosperity to many. And during the fifties there were far more American films released in Australia, and they became more popular than many Australian films. Films were of great influence to the youth of the 1960s, films such as The Wild One and Rebel Without A Cause showed a new type of teenager ...
Convicts settlement, how it started and how it grew apart
... the convicts be best sent to Botany Bay in New South Wales. Sir Banks thought the climate would be good in New South Wales . So that the New South Wales would not be hot or too cold for the convicts. Also that New South Wales was too far away from England so the convicts ...
William Wentworth
... The book contained a remarkable amount of information relating to the colony, with many proposals for the improvement of its government. In the book he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts ...
Feminism: Describe the Women' Movement in Australia between the 1970's and 1990's.
... the end of the white Australia policy, restaurants from every Asian country can be found in Australia for example, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. 2. Leisure- The cultures of Asia have contributed a great deal to Australian leisure activities. Australians ...
Australians never should have been sent to fight in Vietnam because it just was not our fight
... communist countries, China and Russia. While the south was supported by the United states of America. The north gradually began to send their troops over the south border, after receiving support from people who shared their views from the south. Thus began the Vietnam civil war. The Vietnam ...
Jack Lang in the Great Depression.
... the cabinet and the federal party over the East Sydney by-election. He was supported by four of his colleagues and when the Beasley group voted with the opposition the government fell. Lyons and his supporters joined with the Nationalists to form the United Australia Party. In New South Wales the ...
Australian economic and social difficulties brought about by the 1930s depression
... were redesigned to save on materials. The upper class of Australian society were not affected by the Depression to the extent of the rest of Australia's population. The Scullin Government had a hard job and different measures were tackled to change the situation. The Theodore, Jack Lang and Sirotto ...
Assess the contribution migrants have made to Australia's social, cultural and economic development from 1945 to the present day.
... changes in the economy, to alterations in the use of urban and rural space, and to a shift from an almost monocultural society to a highly diverse one. Some of the cultural effects of this change have been the introduction of more than 200 languages into Australian life, the growth of ...
Why did it take so long for the Vietnamese Veterans to be recognized in Australia?
... the Americans. The Domino Theory turned out to be wrong, which was one of the main motives in first sending troops to Vietnam . Even thought the Communists took over Laos and Cambodia, it stopped there. Australia itself was the whole time under no real threat. The Vietnam ...