Communism in Australia

By Amanda Liu

  • Joining UN

    Australia is involved in establishing the United Nations.
    Australia part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF) of Japan.

  • Colombo Plan

    Colombo Plan - WIKI

  • Joining in Korea

    Austrlia join KoreaAustralia joins United States and UN forces in war in Korea.

  • Ref to ban communist party

    WIKI
    In 1949 the USSR exploded its first atomic bomb and Mao Zedong won power in China. A year later North Korea invaded South Korea and in 1951, during the Korean War, the Liberal government of Robert Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party of Australia, first by legislation that was declared invalid by the High Court.

  • ANZUS

    ANZUS - WIKIAustralia, New Zealand and United States Treaty (ANZUS) is signed. Lauch of the Colombo Plan, which sought to provide economic stability in south and South-East Asia, based on the idea that poverty breeds communism.

  • SEATO

    SEATO - WIKI
    Austrlia signs the South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty; other signatories are the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Thailand, Pakistan and the Philippines.

  • SEACDT

    Australia signs the South-East Asia Collective Defense Treaty against communist aggression.

  • Petrov Affair

    Petrov Affair - WIKI
    - Early 1954 - Vladinir Petrov faces charges from the Russian embassy for improperly dealing with a secret document. He risks being sent back to the USSR and imprisonment there.