Introduction main

World war one began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated 28th June 1914, WW1 began exactly a month later, 28th July, 1914 and ended 11th November, 1918. There are the four MAIN reasons for war to begin, this abbreviation stands for militarism, alliance, imperialism and nationality. Militarism is about the country’s military forces and how they build them up to be prepared for defending their country or promoting it. As we enter the 20th century, many countries had begun building up their military forces, Great Britain and Germany had both had a great increase in their navies by around 1914. The increase in militarism around that time had helped with pushing the countries involved into the war. Alliances is the act of working together with other countries as a team basically to protect each other from countries that are trying to attack one of them or beginning a war. In the beginning of WW1 there was the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente. The Triple Entente was made up of Serbia, Russia, France, Britain and the United States, while the triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy and the ottoman empire, although not long after Italy resigned May 3rd, 1915, only for 20 days later to declare war against Austria-Hungary, meaning it joined the Triple Entente. Imperialism is known as the act of conquering smaller nations, and last nationality is known as having pride in your country. Although these may help with making wars begin, WW1 began due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Reasons For Enlistment And Locations Of Services

Australian soldiers fought in many locations, depending on which group they were apart of. The soldiers and medical staff apart of the AIF (Australian imperial force) mostly served in Gallipoli peninsula, the Middle East, and the Western Front. The airmen and the ground crews who were apart of the Australian flying corps served in Egypt, the Middle East and Europe. Some Australians even were enlisted into British army forces, such as the Royal Blue and the British Army. 416,809 people total from Australia were enlisted into WW1, 155,133 of those were wounded during war.

8,500,000 soldiers out of all of WW1 died from wounds or diseases during the war, 13,000,000 civilians had died. Out of the 16,000 Anzacs who went to Gallipoli, 8709 had died. Australia’s involvement in the war was due to Great Britain being our Mother Land, and Great Britain was a part of the triple Entente, who were at war with the triple Alliance, so Australia took part in helping Britain serve at war.

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