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The UN split Korea into north and south
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North Korea invaded South and then there was war.
Beginning of the war that would see 1.5 million south Koreans die and 2.5 north Koreans -
Australian RAAF is first in Singapore
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A three-way agreement between AUS, NZL and USA.
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North Korea, that area of the Korean peninsula north of the 38th parallel became Communist, while South Korea was the province of a nationalist, anti-communist government.
340 aussies killed -
signed int 1953 Australian troops were sent home
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A Russian diplomat got him and his wife into Australia by handing over documents containing information on Russians spies in Australia.
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Menzies uses the spy saga to scare voters from communism to vote for him.
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An American ship was attacked. It escalated fighting
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AUS, FRA, NZL, THA, PAK, PHI, UK, US
nato for the rest of the world -
alliances with Malaysia
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The British tested nuclear bomb is SA
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Australia was scared all through the 60s
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After two Indonesian raids on the Malayan peninsula in 1964 the Australian government deployed a battalion in Borneo
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Australian combat soldiers sent to Vietnam
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Australia pulls troops out
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There was a cease-fire signed but there was continued fighting
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