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 * Document 1 **
 * = **On the 29 April Menzies announced that Australia would be sending troops to South Vietnam. He explained: The Australian Government is now in receipt of a request from the Government of South Vietnam for further military assistance. We have decided- and this has been after close consultation with the Government of the United States-to provide an infantry battalion for the service in South Vietnam… The takeover of South Vietnam would be a direct military threat to Australia and to all the countries of south and South East Asia. It must be seen as part of the thrust by communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans…**
 * (Mr Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia 1965)**

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 * Document 2 **


 * = **Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.**

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 * John F. Kennedy 1961, His inaugural address when he became President of the USA (1961-63).**


 * Document 3 **
 * = **“All men are created equal. They endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.**


 * This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776…The Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen of the French Revolution in 1791 also states; “All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always be free and have equal rights.” …**


 * Nevertheless for more than eighty years, the French imperialists deceitfully raising the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrarily to the ideals of humanity and justice.**


 * In the provenance of politics, they have deprived our people of every liberty.**


 * (Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam, 2 September 1945-speech by Ho Chi Minh)**

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