1950-55
1951 An agreement between the US Australia and New Zealand to provide each other with support.
What is ANZUS?
Leader of South Vietnam from 1955.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
US President between 1961-63 escalated US troops sent to Vietnam.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
1968 Prime Minister who announced that Australia would not increase its forces in Vietnam.
Who was John Gorton?
1970 The largest anti-war protest of its kind in Australia.
What is Moratorium?
1954 The last major battle between the French and Vietnamese that lost France its colony.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
The Prime Minister of Australia from 1949-1966.
Who is Robert Menzies?
The province of South Vietnam where Australian troops were stationed throughout the war.
What is Phuc Tuy Province?
1966 Major battle won by outnumbered Australian troops.
What is Battle of Long Tan?
Australian Prime Minister who orchestrated removal of Australian troops between 1971-73
Who is Gough Whitlam?
A theory publicised by Eisenhower that symbolised the threat of communism.
What is Domino Theory?
Who is Ho Chi Minh
1965 Organisation of women protesting conscription and the war.
What is Save Our Sons?
What is Tet Offensive?
US President who ordered Operation Menu, the mass bombing of eastern Cambodia from 1969-1970.
Who is Richard Nixon?
1954 An agreement between a number of nations including US, Australia, Pakistan and Singapore to protect each other's interests in South East Asia.
What is SEATO?
Capital City of North Vietnam.
What is Hanoi?
1965 Name for conscription in Australia.
What is National Service Scheme?
1966 The first Australian conscript to die in Vietnam.
Who is Errol Noack?
The process of 'handing over' responsibility for defence of South Vietnam to the Vietnamese.
What is Vietnamization?
The name given to the North Vietnamese group who fought against the French.
What is the Viet Minh?
External Affairs Minister 1964-1969
Who is Paul Hasluck?
1964 Incident off the coast of North Vietnam that was used by Eisenhower to increase his power to send troops.
What is Gulf of Tonkin incident?
Massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers in 1968.
What is the Mai Lai Massacre?
New name for Saigon following the reunification of Vietnam in 1975
Communist spy couple who defected to Australia in 1954.
Who were the Petrovs?
The latitude at which South Vietnam and North Vietnam were divided at the Geneva Conference.
What is the 17th parallel?
Carcinogenic herbicide used by the US to clear vegetation in the Vietnamese countryside.
What is Agent Orange?
Term for a person who refuses compulsory military service because of strongly held (often religious) beliefs.
What is conscientious objector?
The historical perspective that attributes the cause of Australia's involvement to the domino theory and concerns around decolonisation of South-East Asia.
What is orthodox perspective?