Why Did Australia become involved in WW1? Australia became involved in World War One in August 1914’‚ as Britain was preparing to declare war on Germany. At the time Andrew Fisher (future Australian prime minister) promised that Australia would stand behind their mother country. He believed this war to be a noble cause where Australians could demonstrate their loyalty. As Australia is still part of the British Empire‚ our loyalty was pressured into joining the war and fighting for what they
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ever dreamt of. The industry of airplanes changed the traveling path people used to take‚ and took fighting for the country’s safety on another level. Starting with airplanes filled with people and others filled with sources to protect the country‚ now reaching the continuous process of upgrading rockets‚ and spaceships to take people out of the orbit safely and bring them back safely‚ like their old slogan used to say “Boeing has always built tomorrow’s airplanes today”. William Boeing‚ the founder
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What were the causes of WW1? In 1914‚ World War I broke out. It involved around 100 countries around the world. Between 1914 and 1918‚ over 59 million troops were used‚ over 8 million died and over 29 million were injured. This is the biggest war anyone has any witnessed yet; this is why WW1 is also known as the Great War. The main reasons why WW1 broke out were the Alliance System‚ Imperialism‚ the arms race‚ the Schlieffen Plan‚ and the trigger of this war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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perspectives regarding the causes of World War One‚ these causes include‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ alliances‚ and nationalism. Imperialism was a major contributing factor to the start of WW1. Tensions between Germany‚ Britain‚ and France grew throughout the years prior to WW1 due to the vast amount of land France and Britain had acquired. Imperialism also led to certain political alliances such the triple entente and the triple alliance. Germany was also very worried because Great
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Why did WW1 last for so long? WW1 was thought to be a quick battle with hardly any resistance offered to the Germans. But something went wrong‚ very wrong for the fight that was thought to be over in 43 days on the western front ended up as a shoot out for four long years. There were many reasons for this‚ mainly the failure of the Schlieffen Plan Also new technology and barley any supplies on the front line. All these things lead to the stalemate that was formed and the main reason the war went
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I think that the Allies powers should have lost WW1. This is because of the size of the Axis powers‚ European countries blaming each other ‚ how much money the Axis powers spent on their army and navy‚ Bernherd von Bϋlow’s speech to the Reichstag ( German Congress) ‚ the England Octopus‚ the area of the colonial empires. One of the reasons that the Allies should have is because of the Axis powers military size. For example the Axis powers where bigger in size than the Allied powers. The Allies
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How far did WW1 change the position of the Liberal Party in 1918? WW1 changed the position of the LIberal Party significantly because of many factors. One major change would have been Asquith stepping down as leader. This was because he was seen as not being able to lead the war‚ the public disliked the way in his methods with events such as the Shell crisis which led to thousands of unneeded deaths. This was were Lloyd George took over as he was seen fit to lead this war‚ or control the many
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From 1870 to 1910‚ countries around Europe had been making deals to work together as some countries were growing more powerful and looking threatening. Some countries stayed out of it‚ hoping the heat would pass‚ but in 1914‚ WW1 started and the alliance system was one of the main reasons for the outbreak. The first alliance was made in 1879‚ 35 years before the outbreak. It was between rising power Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire. It was so Germany could think about attacking other countries
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these allied countries they were not affected by most land technology. Yet‚ the development of bombing strategies‚ aviation and naval capabilities allowed for enemy forces to affect even these isolated countries. Bombing became a heavily used tactic during the war‚ with huge bombing campaigns becoming a norm. The German offensive on Britain was one of bombing major cities and military factories. ‘At Bath the numbers known to have been killed in two air raids were 148… and the
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The U.S entered WW1 for several reasons. The U.S entered for two main reasons: one was that the Germans had declared unlimited German submarine warfare and the Zimmermann note. The German had totally disregarded the international laws protecting neutral nation’s ships by sinking neutral ships. We warned the Germans one too many times and they did not take us seriously so in 1917 we finally had enough and we joined the war. The Germans had decided that they would sink any ship they wanted without
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