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.

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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.

Viva la revolution Comrade!