These 4 long-term factors (MAIN) help

influence the beginning of WW1 but there was a short-term factor that seemed to explode and cause the beginning of WW1 the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand who was assassinated by a 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip on the 28th of June 1914. Germany then declared war on Serbia leading to allied countries to come and defend each other resulting in WW1.

ANZAC soldiers (Australia and New Zealand Army

Corps) Fought in 2 main areas the Western Front and The Gallipoli Peninsula, ANZAC cove. ANZACs arrived at the beaches of Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915 at around 4:15 am were heavy gun fire rained down on them killing thousands within the first hour of landing on their beaches. The gun fire was from above on the bays where the Turks were waiting for our arrival. ANZACs retreated on the night of November 11th, 1915, were they returned to the training grounds in Egypt.

Propaganda posters were made during the beginning of WW1 to inflict feeling s of guilt and cowardliness upon Australian men to influence them to go to war and help protect and defend not just their own country but their mother country the United Kingdom. Out of the Australian population at the time 13.4% of the adult male population enlisted in the war, this is about 416,800 men. Out of the 416,800 men, 331,000 served overseas, 61,720 dies and 155,000 were wounded. During the 8 – 9 months spent serving in Gallipoli 50,000 men fought 8,709 died and around 18,000 were wounded.