What effect did the war have on Australian society?

Answer 1

The conflict in Vietnam ended up engulfing neighboring Cambodia and Laos. The United States and South Vietnamese forces sought to block the flow of soldiers and equipment through these countries into South Vietnam, invading Cambodia and Laos in 1970. In 1975 communist forces prevailed in all three countries causing millions to try and flee the new regimes. Cambodia sunk into the nightmare of Khmer Rouge rule. Declaring 'Year Zero' and proclaiming an austere agrarian socialist revolution, the Khmer Rouge drove the population into the countryside, murdering anyone considered an intellectual, wiping out most of the Buddhist priesthood and ultimately provoking Vietnam into invading in 1979. Enormous refugee camps were set up along the Thai border as hundreds of thousands of Cambodians fled the country with tales of brutality and horror. The camps were overcrowded and sometimes violent and people lived in them for years waiting for resettlement.

Answer 2

It became threatened and at last had a legitimate reason to be involved in World War 2. It withdrew most of its forces from the war in Europe and the Middle East, and went on a full war footing, calling up its reserve forces to full time service, and transforming into a war economy.

Answer 3

The impact war had on Australian society is greater economic boom and depression. The impact war had on Australian society is greater economic boom and depression.