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Assasination of Archduke of Austria
Franz Ferninand and his wife were killed in Sarjevo in Bosnia (the area was apart of Serbia in the time of the assasination. Being an archduke he was very important and his purpose was to persuade Austro-Hungary to form an alliance -
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World War 1
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Australia's PM famous speech
Andrew Fisher believes that Australia should fight alongside its mother country "to the last man and last shilling". -
Britain declares war on Germany
Germany invades Belgium to kill of the French Army as part of the Shifflen Plan and Britain goes against this and the treaty made by Germany and england was called "scrap" hence starting the war. -
AIF trianing in Egypt
They arrived in Egypt to learn intensive physicial combat and they formed three units- the Autralian, The Austrralian and New Zealand and a mounted divison. -
ANZAC in Gallipoli
The ANZAC fought in Gallipoli and were defenceless to Turkish guns and their cannons and moany died and 16000 ANZAC troops engaged the enemy. -
Battle of Nek
A minor battle in a narrow strech of the battlefield in Gallipoli and gave a big attack with over 1000 Australians. -
Retreating Gallipoli
A planned tactic which made the Turks unable to kill the retreating soldiers. -
Battle of Fromells
They fought the German positions in Fromelles not knowing, the Germans reassebled different positions 200m away and were unsucessfull with all the other attacks involving 5,533 -
Battle of Poziers Ridge
The Australian and British fought hard to take the outpost of an observation post over the surrounding countryside and battlefields. It came at a cost of 5,708 men. -
Battle of Romani
This battle fought in teh Middle East marked the end of the Turkish threat on the Suez canal. They camped near large sand dunes and later and managed to kill of the Turkish resistance and prisoners were taken. -
Voting for Government in time of grave emergency
Australians had to answere Yes or No to being with the government in the hard times of war. -
Battle of Magdhaba
Turkish forces wre blocking the way into Palestine and they fought hard and were given supplies which helped them get victory. -
Battle of Passchendaele
The Australia Division was trying to get Passchendale village after being in German artillery and later ending up retreating. -
2nd voting for Goverment in time of grave emergency
The government lost again and kicked off Bill Hughes for the campaign. -
Black Day for German Army
Australian infantry was able to infiltrate German defensive forces with about 6000 tanks and pushed them behind their own wiress and trenches gaining 10km of land. -
Armistice Day
The German givermnet signed a treaty with the allies(Britain,USA and Russia) at the 11 hour of the 11 day of the 11th month being the official end to World War 1.
