Australia is a country of its own, they still had a
mother country, Britain. So Australia went to the
world war in order to help the British soldiers.
Secondly, if Australia became involved in the World
War, they would have gained respect from the
greater countries.
Andrew Fisher promised that if they were to help ‘stand
behind’ their mother country, they would be showing
their loyalty and to gain respect from the other greater
countries.
During the world war over 8 million soldiers died and
in Turkey an estimated 12 million civilians lost their
lives.
416,809 men Australian enrolled, of which
over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded,
gassed, or taken prisoner.
Because of this the Hungarians
were going to invade Serbia but
Russia threatened them not to.
Meanwhile, France and England made a
threat to Germany as they had a treaty
with Russia. Japan helped both these
countries because they had a treaty with
Britain
Since Russia had threatened Hungary,
Germany threatened Russia as they were
trying to protect Hungary because of their
treaty.
This article is named ‘what has the war
done to the world’ and it tells us how
much the war has affected things like
literature, the arts, the economy and
medicine and in addition it also informs us
about how much money a country has to
spend on war.
The article has a has an important picture
of the dogs in the canine ambulance
division helping the injured soldiers
struggling on the battlefield. This article
lives up to its name and it reads, ‘Real dogs
of war, red cross aids on way to battlefields
strewn with wounded
Australian
New
Zealand
The original ANZAC biscuit was known as an
ANZAC wafer or tile and was part of the
rations given to ANZAC soldiers during World
War I. They were included instead of bread
because they had a much longer shelf life
ANZAC was originally named the Australasian
Army Corps. However protests from New
Zealand led to the adoption of Australian and
New Zealand Army Corps. Administration
clerks found the title too long and adopted the
abbreviation of ANZAC.
Army
Corps
They shall grow not old, as we
that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor
the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
“Lest We Forget” is a phrase made popular in
1897 by Rudyard Kipling.
Beach-head:
A defended position
on a beach taken
from the enemy by
landing forces.
The fighting ended with the singing of an armistice
which went into effect at 11:00 in the morning on
November 11th 1918. The German Soldiers
evacuated their positions and immediately returned
to Germany. The Germans had to leave all heavy
artillery and weapons behind
Afterwards, a peace treaty was formed, France,
Germany and Austria were given the choice to
accept the treaty or continue the war. They
Naturally accepted.
Armistice:
A fancy word for cease fire or hold your fire!