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Australia Join the United Nations (UN)
Australia is involved in establishing the United Nations. Australians part of the British Commonealth Occupational Forces (BCOF) of Japan. -
UN Approves
UN approves Australian trusteeship of mandated territories Papua and New Guines. -
Joining in Korea
Australia joins United States and UN forcesin war in Korea. -
The ANZUS treaty
Australia, New Zealand and United States treaty (ANZUS) is signed. -
Columbo Plan
Launch of the Columbo Plan, Which sought to provide economic stability in South and South-East Asia, based on the idea that poverty breeds communism. -
SEATO
Australia signs the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) treaty; other signatories are the United States, The United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Thailand, Pakistan and the Philippines. -
SEACDT
SEACDT is Soth-Eas Aisa Collective Defence Treaty against communist aggresion. -
Petrov Affair
Vladimir Petrov faces charges from the Russian embassy for impropertly dealing with a secret document. He risks being sent back to the USSR and imprisonment tetr.