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start of world war 1
Britain declares war on Germany "Australians will stand beside our own to help and defend her two-hour last man and our last shilling"Andrew Fisher. all starting because of an assassination. -
Australia begins volunteer recruitment
Australia tried to introduce conscription but failed after 2 attempts. there for Australia remained voluntary conscription with strict medical and physical standards. by the end of 1914, we had over 52 000 volunteers. -
Australian's landed at ANZAC cove
the Australian and NewZealand troops landed at ANZAC cove under heavy fire. and had to charge their way up the beach and they were taking on heavy fire from up above on the hill and the ANZACS were just sitting ducks. for the Turkish to shoot -
Baby 700
The Baby 700 battle was fought in the year 1915 between Britain and the Turkish armies. when Brittan attacked the Turkish army the british thought they were able to walk over the turkish but they where surprized when they fought back well. -
burial truce
on the 24th of may, there was a burial truce and it was used so that both sides could help each other bury their mates. this was one of the moments that showed that they were just ordinary people and the Turkish and the British were shooting at each other because they had to and that's why they signed up. that was a major turning point as well because they showed each other what they do in their home countrys and their familys. -
The battle of lone pine
this is they battle between Australia and turkey. it was fought when the main battle of Gallipoli was going. it was fought between trenches and turkey had machine guns and they just mowed the Australian front line the burial truce was also around this time to clean the bodies up. it was one of the brutalist battles ever fought and in this battle there was no winner and both sides lost many men. and it is on very renound battle -
Evacuation of Golipoli
on the 13th of November 1:40pm, a boat arrived with marshals and the got off the boat and all the men surrounded the boat and the dock and the marshals told the men they were getting evacuated. they were taken on boats slowly but on the 19th of December there were 1500 men left and the 14th battalion's L guppy wrote a letter in his diary to say fair well to the men who lost there lives and the cove it's self ANZAC cove. -
the battle of somme begins
at 7:30am the British launch a massive attack on the germans on the Somme river region in France. 100,000 British soldiers came out of their trench to fight the germans as well. with such a terrible death rate of 20,000 and a casualty rate of 40,000 there was no clean winner. -
battle of Fromelles
in the year 1916, the Australians started to land in France. also in Egypt, the Australians and British have a training camp and at that the camp there was 4 divisions and they later combine them into division 5. 100km from there the British were fighting their own battle and they had 58,000 casualties in the fight. -
battle of Pozieres
this battle was a two weeks-long struggle for the village Pozieres. Pozieres is the name that is used to identify the name of the battle. A number of casualties were accounted for with a number of 23,000 men and 6,800 of these were deaths or caused by infections. the most accurate gun they had in the war was the Australians 303 was sometimes used as the sniper. the battle started was because of the battle of Somme and the Australians met the germans along the way to the British. -
first conscription referendum
the prime minister who asked for conscription was Bill Hughes and he wanted young Australians to go overseas while ww1 was going on so they could go fight for Britain and Australia. this action was conducted under the military serves referendum and they were not sent over because 51% of people said no and 41% said yes. -
battle of somme ends
on the 18th of November, was the day that the battle of Somme ended. the outcome of the battle was that after 2 years the battle ended and Germany broke with Australia's allies trying to break through the line. there were more than 1 million casualties in the battle between both sides. -
first battle of bullecourt
Bellecourt is another village in the top of France and also another village that went under heavy fire like seven other villages. while all this was happening the germans ran from the front line back to defence because they would have a smaller front and a big defensive line. in the battle, there was 3,300 casualties and 1,170 prisoners in the war and they were all Australians. -
united states declares war on germany
The United States declared war on Germany on the 26th April 1917. The Americans had kept out of World War 1 for most of the time because they were a neutral force, The final straw that made the Americans join the battle was the Zimmerman Telegram, discovered by the British. The Americans bought most of their army. The American military also bought the deadliest weapon, the machine gun could also fire between 400-600 rounds a minute, proving to be a killing machine. -
the second battle of bullecourt
another attempt was made to try and secure the village of Bellecourt. from the 3-17 of May the 2nd Australian and the 62nd British divisions fought against these people again for the second time with another hard battle. they attacked at 3:45am on the 3rd of May 1917, the total casualties there were was 7,482 men. -
the second conscription referendum
7,000 men had to be recruit a month to fill the British requirement. it was beaten again with a number of 1,181,747 people voted against it. it depended on the age of 22 to 44 years of age. it is alway a very close vote when they vote for it. but once again it has been beaten again.
