A complete term’s worth of extensive Modern History notes regarding the topic of Australian Foreign Policy. These notes cover, in thorough detail, the following learning intentions:
(1) Foreign Policy: an overview of foreign policy and its definition.
(2) Factors that Influence Australian Foreign Policy: a variety of national factors that influence foreign policy including economic reliance on agricultural, pastoral and mining industries and Australia’s tradition of parliamentary democracy as well as international factors including perception of military threats and power blocs.
(3) Foreign Policy Instruments
(4) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: a brief overview of the Department, including its key goals and its current structure and framework.
(5) Australia’s Fear of Invasion Before 1941: brief overview of various countries that Australia feared of invasion before 1941 and its reasons, including the French, the Imperial Russians, the Chinese, the German Huns, the Russian ‘Red Menace’, the German Nazis and the Japanese.
(6) History of Australian Foreign Policy 1788-1901: an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy, including the Annexation of New Guinea, Federation, Sudan War, Boer War, Immigration Restriction Act and the White Australia Policy.
(7) History of Australian Foreign Policy 1902-1914: an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy, including the first Colonial Conference, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the Russo-Japanese War, the Imperial Conference, dominions, the 1908 US Pacific Fleet visit, the 1909 Australian Defence Act and the significance of Lord Kitchener in 1910.
(8) History of Australian Foreign Policy 1914-1919: an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including World War One, Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, conscription, the Treaty of Versailles, the League Covenant and the C-Class Mandate over PNG.
(9) History of Australian Foreign Policy 1920s: an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including the League of Nations, the Washington Conferences and Treaties, the 1922 Chanak Crisis, the 1923 Imperial Conference, Richard Casey, British Commonwealth of Nations and the Balfour Declaration.
(10) History of Australian Foreign Policy 1930s: an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including Isaac Isaacs, the Statute of Westminster, the Pacific Non-Aggression Pact, Keith Officer and World War Two.
(11) The Labor Years (1941-1949): an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including the Prime Ministership of John Curtin, foreign minister Dr Herbert Evatt, Pearl Harbour, Fall of Singapore, Bombing of Darwin, midget submarines invade Sydney Harbour, the Pacific War Council, the ANZAC Agreement, the San Francisco Conference, importance of Franke Forde, domestic consequences of Australia looking to the US, Ben Chifley, Allied Control Council, the Trusteeship of PNG and the ideology of Populate or Perish.
(12) The Liberal Years (1949-1972): an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including Sir Robert Menzies, an overview of Menzies’ foreign policy, the Colombo Plan, Korean War, ANZUS Treaty, Petrov Affair, Vladimir Petrov, SEATO, ANZAM, Malaysian Emergency, Forward Defence, Sukarno, Irian Jaya, Confrontation Policy, Domino Theory, Vietnam War, National Service Scheme, Harold Holt, National Services Act, British withdrawal from east of the Suez, John Gorton, anti-Vietnam campaign, Suharto, Nixon Doctrine, 5 Power Defence Arrangement and William McMahon.
(13) New Directions in Foreign Policy (1972-present): an extensive timeline and explanations of various definitions and key terms from this period that relate to Australian Foreign Policy including Gough Whitlam, Communist China, Malcolm Fraser, Invasion of East Timor, Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), ASEAN, Bob Hawke, Timor Gap Zone Cooperation Treaty, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Dili Massacre, APEC, Paul Keating, P.M. Mahathir, John Howard, Alexander Downer, ‘Asia first, but not only Asia’ diplomacy, 1999 East-Timorese referendum.