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Pearson History 9 (text book chapter) - has a section on Indigenous soldiers
RetroActive 9 (text book chapter)
Old version of History Alive 9 (text book chapter) This has slightly different information as an older version of your text
Australian War Memorial: Indigenous Service
Libraries Tasmania: Aboriginal Soldiers
Pearson History 9 (text book chapter) - has a section on Indigenous soldiers
This title examines the political upheavals, imperialist ambitions, militaristic governments, and tangled alliances that led to World War I.
PRIMARY SOURCES
The Story of the Day (ABC Splash)
Gallipoli and the Australian Legend - From 'Discovering Australian History Stage 5', by Ken Webb. Scanned under licence.
Gallipoli and the Australian legend - From 'Analysing Australian History', by Ken Webb. Scanned under licence.
Gallipoli and the Australian Legend - From 'Australian History and Citizenship', by Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton. Scanned under licence.
The Anzac Legend - From 'Nelson History 3: Australia and the World in the 20th Century', by Jo Eshuys, Vic Guest, Robyn Bowman, Brendan Burgess, Stephen Kimber and Keith Hallett.
Gallipoli - From 'Heineman Outcomes History', by Robert Darlington and others. Scanned under licence.
The Anzac Legend - From 'Heineman Outcomes History', by Robert Darlington and others. Scanned under licence.
NEGATIVES
POSITIVES
ELEMENTS OF THE ANZAC LEGEND
From 'Discovering Australian History Stage 5, by Ken Webb, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2008.
PRIMARY SOURCES
World War I began with immense, rapid, national mobilisations and classical offensive manoeuvres, but after mutual attempts at envelopment at and after the Battle of the Marne, stationary trench warfare ensued across a wide battlefront. A war of attrition set in that called for total national involvement in the war effort.
Over the course of the campaign both sides fired artillery shells by the tons (the most destructive weapon on the Western Front eg Howitzer), unleashed streams of machine gun fire (German Spandau vs British Maxim), sprayed chemical weapons, fire flamethrowers, and British troops deployed tanks for the first time. Four days of heavy shelling preceded the British infantry assault in the Somme sector. A thousand artillery pieces targeted a 25,000-yard stretch of the German line, the weapons ranging from trench mortars to 60-pounders and huge, 15-inch howitzers. In all, the British artillery fired 1.5 million shells in just four days.
DEFINITION OF 'TRAGEDY':
Merriam Webster Dictionary: Painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or catastrophe.
Cambridge Dictionary: An extremely strong feeling of fear and shock, or the frightening and shocking character of something.
DEFINITION OF 'HORROR':
Cambridge Dictionary: An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust, or the frightening and shocking character of something.
Dictionary.com: A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster.
The Examiner UK: Why the Battle of the Somme was probably the worst ever British military disaster
The Imperial War Museum: What happened on the first day of the Battle of the Somme?
The Imperial War Museum: What happened during the Battle of the Somme?
Long Long Trail: British artillery bombardment before the infantry attack on the Somme
War is Boring: The Battle of the Somme Began With Britain’s Biggest Artillery Barrage
PRIMARY SOURCES
PRIMARY SOURCES
EBOOK
Fromelles 1916
CanDoWisdom: John Monash Battle of Hamel Case Study
Scroll through most of this psychological guide, but there is a useful section on Monash at Hamel.
PRIMARY SOURCES
General
The Armistice and Peace Treaty
(Note the role of Australian Prime Minister Hughes)
Impact of the War on Returned Soldiers, War Widows and Families
(Note that Australia sacrificed by far the greatest per-capita of men of any Allied nation)
Spanish Flu
Economy and Employment
Soldier Settlements
Bitter Divisions
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5 Minute History: First World War Weapons
Includes Artillery, Rifles and bayonets, Pistols, Machine guns, Grenades, Trench mortars, Flamethrowers, Gas, Armoured cars, Tanks, Mines, Airships, Fighter aircraft, Dreadnoughts, and Submarines.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry
Includes Edged weapons, Handguns, Infantry rifles and Machine guns.
The Britannica Guide to Inventions That Changed the Modern World
Includes Submarine (p. 284); Machine gun (p. 288), Assault rifles (p. 291); Tank (p. 294).
General
Railways (Transport for troops and war supplies, Evacuation of wounded)
Petroleum / Oil (for military vehicles)
Military History Now: Of Blood and Oil – How the Fight for Petroleum in WW1 Changed Warfare Forever
Electricity (for Communications, Mass production, Submarines)
Mass Production
Vehicles (Internal combustion engines, Tanks, Rubber tyres)
Communications
Marine Technology (Advanced ships; Submarines)
First World War.com: Primary Source - German Submarine Deutschland's Atlantic Crossing, 9 July 1916
Medicine (Anaesthetics; Transport; Surgery; X-Rays)
Discusses use of nitrous oxide for anaesthesia; the “Carrel-Dakin Method” of antiseptic, made from a solution of sodium hypochlorite. Also discusses the important contribution of motor ambulances and hospital trains, as well as the development of facial reconstruction surgery.
The Battle of Cambrai was the first successful use of tanks in WWI, and the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux was the first time tank opposed tank in battle.
Reveals for the first time the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. He answers question such as: What is guncotton? What is lyddite? What is mustard gas? What is phosgene? What is gunmetal? This is a true picture of the horrors of the 'Chemists' War'.
EBOOK: World War I Causes
Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!