Australian Involvement In WW1 by https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh en-us 2017-04-06 01:21:43 UTC 2026-02-21 21:05:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Moderncam.png 8.8 Skill Builder: Analyzing Photographs aqeel_abdulhanif https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165043604 - Photographs can be used for primary sources when studying history.
- Photographs were used in the  military for a visual record.
-  Visual records were made by official war photographers like Frank Hurley who was the  photographer for both war.
- Photos were and can be used for propaganda by changing how it is composed.
The seven questions are used to find the purpose of the photo
  1. Who the photographer is and what is the source.
  2. Where the picture is taken and when.
  3. Editing (if the scene is staged]) Has the photograph been cropped changing meaning or remove/adding details.
  4. Where the photo is took. e.g whether its close up or faraway (affecting how we feel about the picture).
  5. What's it about (subject) and do any minor details add some more information.
  6. Why was the image took (intent).
  7.  What evidence does the photographs show
]]> 2017-04-06 04:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165043604 8.10 - The Conscription issue meg_edelman https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165044283 - By mid-1916 recruiting campaigns were no longer convincing men to join and enlist in the war.
- The labour prime minister William Horris Hughes decided that Australia should follow Britain in introducing conscription divisions.
- Conscription became a very diverse issue in society and many people argued with each other.
- People who did not step forward to enlist were called traitors.
- Those supporting conscription involved; Business organizations, returned soldiers, protestant soldiers and representatives of parties.
- The Anti-Creed was a leaflet which supported conscription in the 1917 referendum.
- The blood vote was an anti - conscription leaflet.





]]> 2017-04-06 05:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165044283 8.11 Eastern Front: Collapse and Revolution mitchell_colegate2 https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165300475 War Weariness in Russia
-  From the start of World War 1, the Russian army was known as the Russian Steam Roller.
- They were giving this name because people believed they could defeat the Germans and Austrians just because they had a lot more men going to fight than the enemy.
- This was not the case though. Many of the Russian fighters were conscripted peasants.
- None of them had ever been trained before in their life and soldiers were very poorly equipped.
- Revolution: In the Russian capital of Petrograd in 1917 (now St Petersburg) is when the revolution broke out.

]]> 2017-04-07 04:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165300475 8.12 - Peace and Commemoration meg_edelman https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165307792 - The 11th of November 1918 ended the fighting of world war 1, but nothing would ever be the same.
- The armies that had killed and maimed each other returned home from the trenches to the world in ruins.
- In Australia, there was scarcely a family that did not have a son, brother, uncle or some kind of relative which had died on the battlefield.
- In 1918, 260 000 Australians had to be repatriated.
- Some soldiers had been fighting for four years and people at home did not understand how badly the experience had affected them.
- Australians were determined to make sure that the sacrifices the soldiers made would never be forgotten. so they made memorials.
- Anzac day was first observed in 1916 to commemorate the landing at Gallipoli and the legends the soldiers made.
- Today the meaning of ANZAC day is shared by all Australians. 



]]> 2017-04-07 06:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/165307792 8.9 Home Front aqeel_abdulhanif https://padlet.com/mitchell_colegate2/zgdyueraurmh/wish/169058191 - War was very expensive! (BOTH PEOPLE & MONEY).
- A federal income tax and other taxes were made to pay for the war.
- The War Precautions Act of 1915 and other acts restricted a lot of freedom.
- Discouraging people to enlist in the war basically became a crime
- People of German blood were harassed and bullied! They were put into prison camps and could leave if they became an Australian Citizen.
- The government wanted censorship to keep morale high and not let the enemy know info, but they also used used censorship to silence people like Tom Barker who posted a cartoon that might harm the recruiting efforts and went to prison 12 months.
- Propaganda was used through newspapers and public meeting to spread an idea that the war was between good & evil (the British civilization and the brutish Germans)
- Socialist saw people in the war who profited selling war materials.
- People organised patriotic events to fund the war
- Schools were used to teach children to be patriotic
- Women weren't allowed to join in the direct fight but joined as nurses and supported in charity work
- Women voluntarily helped allies in making clothes and medicine the army fail to provide.
- Women also bullied men into joining the war efforts

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