Id rather be Dead than Red! Australias response to Communism. Peace Rally Counter-Demonstrator.
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Transcript of Id rather be Dead than Red! Australias response to Communism. Peace Rally Counter-Demonstrator.
I’d rather be Dead than Red’!Australia’s response to Communism.
Peace Rally Counter-DemonstratorPeace Rally Counter-Demonstrator
Communism means
The belief that private ownership should be
abolished and all work and property should be shared
by the community.
Based upon the writings of German philosopher Karl Marx the founding father of socialism
Capitalism means:
An economic system based on the private ownership of business, production and
distribution.
Key Words associated with Communism • Red Scare• Commy• Espionage• Spy rings• Cold War• Korean War• ASIO• Domino theory• Petrov Affair• Democracy• Revolution• Protest• Capitalism• ANZUS• SEATO• Iron curtain
Hammer & Sickle
Former Communist countries
•China •Cuba •Laos •North Korea •Viet Nam•Russia•Poland•Yugoslavia•Czechoslovakia•Eastern Germany
Communists
J. Stalin
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Che Guevara
F. Castro
Anti - Communists
Joseph McCarthyRobert Menzies
J. E. HooverHarry Truman
European Anti-communist posters and a protest rally.
Anti-communist propaganda
This image shows civilisation being pulled down by communism
This image shows the death and
destruction that communism would do
to mankind
This is an American anti-communism poster showing
how communism could brainwash society and take
away people’s freedom
This was a German anti-communism
poster
Australian anti-communist poster, showing mankind being dragged down by communism
The growth of Communism • 1917- Russia adopts this ideology after the
revolution that got rid of the Tsar • WW11 ends tension begins between USA & USSR• 1947, Iron Curtain (Churchill), Soviet control of
Eastern Europe. Beginning of conflict between East and West
• 1949, China adopts Communism• 1950 McCarthyism – Domino theory, introduction of
Anti-Communist bills • 1950 war with Korea – Australia’s involvement • 1950 Menzies anti-communist dissolution bill• 1952 Communist witch hunt – Jimmy Carruthers
(boxer), Peter Finch (actor), Alan Walker (minister)
Government’s response to Communism in
Australia • Series of anti-communist propaganda
introduced film. Newsreels, posters & pamphlets.
• Arrest of anyone who had communist views
• Censorship of anything deemed pro-communist – ‘power without glory’ novel by Frank Hardy was arrested and went through 9 month trial accusing him of being a communist agitator and troublemaker
• Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov accused of being a soviet spy, but there was no proof that he was a threat to Australia – the incident was an embarrassment to the government.
• Korean war, anti-war protestors were accused of being ‘dangerous communists’.
What have you learnt?
1. Who is this anti-communist President?
2. Who is the communist leader and which country is he president of?
3. What does SEATO stand for?
4. Which countries made up the
organisation ANZUS?
5. Communism means an economic system based on the private ownership of
business, production and distribution. True or False?
6. Name 3 former communist countries
7. Which Australian author wrote ‘Power & Glory’?
J. E. Hoover
Mao Zedong
South East Asia Treaty Organisation
Frank Hardy
Russia, China & North Viet Nam
False
Australia, New Zealand and The USA
8. Which Australian Prime minister is this?
9. What name was given to those who protested against the war in Korea in
1950?
10. Who was Vladimir Petrov?
11. What does censorship mean?
12. What is meant by the Domino Theory?
13. What is meant by the slogan ‘I’d rather be dead than Red’?
14. When did China become a communist country?
15. What is meant by the Cold War and which two countries were involved?
Robert Menzies
Answer
The control of information
communicated through letters, media, etc.
A Soviet Diplomat, accused of being a
Soviet Spy
‘Dangerous Communists’
The idea, that is one country fell to Communism (e.g.. South Vietnam), the
rest of the World would follow.
1949
It was a period of tension, and a race of accumulating arms between the USA and Soviet Russia. There was no real physical conflict as is
typical in war.