Prime Minister Robert Menzies publicly proclaimed it on radio.
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Australia entered the Vietnam War because Australia feared that they would have to face the spread of Communism.
Which gulf war? There's more than one.
At its outbreak in 1939.
Australian troops entered into the Vietnam War on the 29th April 1965.
There was no need to enter the war in Europe as there was no threat to Australia until it actually entered the war. This changed two tears later when Japan invaded South East Asia and captured New Guinea.
The US. Australia was part of SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization) and ANZUS (Australia New Zealand and United States organization).
Australia has not had a war. The country has been involved with other wars around the world, but Australia has not had a civil war.
Yes, during WW1 and WW2, there was no conscriprtion (compulsory military service). Soldiers went to war by choice. But in the Vietnam war, conscription was introduce in Australia and the soldiers were forced for the Vietnam war to go and fight.
There has only been one war in Australia and that was against Japan.
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Commonwealth countries such as Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The USA didn't enter the war until December 1942 (Pearl Harbour).