Before World War One
The image to the right is a photograph of Gavrilo Princip. He was the nineteen year old Bosnian Serb who assassinated Franz Ferdinand.
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The image to the left is a photograph of Franz Ferdinand. He was one of the key people who caused world war one. He was assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, by a nineteen year old Bosnian Serb.
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The Triple Alliance, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, and the Triple Entente, France, Britain and Russia, were the main countries to participate in the war. Many countries had alliances with Britain, this is what brought other countries into the war. Australia participated in World War One due to their alliance with Britain.
The Gallipoli Peninsula is situated between Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros in the northwestern coast of Turkey. Australia fought at Gallipoli to support the British armies because of their alliance with Britain.
The reason troops were sent to Gallipoli was to open the route to Britain's ally Russia and to eliminate Turkey from the war. Their naval plan was pretty much to send the navy in to scare the Turkish away without retaliation. This plan soon failed because the Turkish were prepared and fought back. The Turkish had planted mines in the water which ships ran into and had been preparing a large army. Part of the Australian-British troops landed in the wrong spot, expecting beaches and instead were faced with sheer cliffs.
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Soldiers who volunteered to fight in World War One could previously have worked as anything. Most soldiers, including Indigenous soldiers, had no experience in fighting, coming from jobs like farming, being a clerk, a shop worker, a baker, a factory worker, a bricklayer, a gardener or a horse and wagon driver. People who did these jobs and many others all fought in the war, protecting each other, working together and fighting to protect their country. When they were at war it didn't matter who they were, where they came from or what job they did before they enlisted for the war.