Defining moments- the Gallipoli Military Operation Gallipoli is the name of a Peninsula in Turkey, where in 1915 to 1916 Australian and New Zealand soldiers were engaged in one of the most memorable battles in the history of Australia. The Gallipoli Military Operation (now commonly known as the Gallipoli Campaign) was a complete military failure, but a great historical lesson to the nation. Many lives were lost. Not only did the Gallipoli Campaign define the Australian values like mateship, courage and loyalty, but also created a trail of mixed emotions of sadness, pride and regret, that many families in Australia had to live with for years to come. This is mainly due to the sheer number of soldiers that were lost or injured in this battle considering the size of Australia’s population at the time.
Hitler ended up sending thousands of troops into these countries for the sole purpose of protecting transportation and supply centers. Even though these men and women of the Resistance Movement never won a significant battle, they were instrumental in keeping troops and supplies from the front, helping to defeat the Axis powers. Citizens of nations occupied by Germany that secretly fought the Germans were known as what? The Resistance Movement On July 10, 1943, the Allies invaded Italy for the first time. This opened yet another front for the Axis to fight on.
World War ll Military Women During World War II, some 350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. At the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt and women's groups, and impressed by the British use of women in service, General George Marshall supported the idea of introducing a women's service branch into the Army. In May 1942, Congress instituted the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, later upgraded to the Women's Army Corps, which had full military status. Its members, known as WACs, worked in more than 200 non-combatant jobs stateside and in every theater of the war. By 1945, there were more than 100,000 WACs and 6,000 female officers.
Ryan Taylor Professor James Withers Western Civilization I 13 April 2014 Pericles Funeral Oration As was customary in ancient Athens, a public speech was given as a form of eulogy for those who died in war. At the first of these occasions during the Peloponnesian War, the protagonist of this war, Pericles, was chosen for this task. This famous speech has become an important writing that has given historians a glimpse into the culture and customs of that time period. Although Pericles depicted those who died as examples of the perfect Athenian citizen, he was in fact attempting to glorify and justify their deaths and produce a feeling of patriotism in those to whom he spoke in order to continue support for the war and perpetuate his own power. Pericles had a way with the people and gained tremendous support.
The Elgin Marbles ( A closer look ) 5. The British Denial to hand over the Marbles to the Greeks 6. Unknown facts of Elgin’s looting 7. Conclusion Parthenon throughout the history After their victory against the Persians at Plataea in 479 B.C., the Athenians returned to their abandoned city and found all the buildings on the Acropolis had been laid waste. Themistocles, Aristides and Kimon successively vied with each other in rebuilding the city.
Trauma of War Trauma is a disordered behavioural state resulting from an experience that was shocking, severe, mental or emotionally stressful from a traumatic event. Throughout the documentary “Barbered Wire and Mandolins”, civilians suffer emotional and shocking stress in June 1940, where 700 men were seen as national threats to security, and therefore held up to three years in internment camps. In the short story “A Marker On The side Of the Boat” a soldier reflects on a shocking and severe trauma of a war that he encountered in the city of Hanoi. Both “A Marker on the Side of the Boat” and “Barbered wire on Mandolins” are equally effective in conveying all aspects of trauma of war. Ways that trauma of war is conveyed in both creative texts is through character insights, where in the documentary we get civilians who were apart of the event in 1940, and in the short story we get a soldiers insights on everything that’s happening during the war.
The fall of Singapore The fall of Singapore occurred on the 15th of February 1942 with the surrender of all British and Empire forces on the island. This was three years after Great Britain and France declared war on Germany and only two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Australia had immediately joined the war effort in order to aid Britain and the empire, but soon faced another formidable foe, considerably closer to home- the Japanese. The fall of Singapore brought the war closer than ever to Australia, and brought the prospect of fighting on Australian soil (for the first time) increasingly near. The fall of Singapore generated new opinions and perspectives on the war for all Australians.
Battle analysis of The Guadalcanal Campaign Name Tutor College Course Date The World War II remains one of the most violent and significant armed conflicts throughout the history of man. The battle for Guadalcanal occurred in 1942 after the marines of US arrived on 7th of August the same year. Their major objective of their landing was to deny the use of the canal by the Japanese to cut supply of military and communication to U.S, and New Zealand. The Japanese were unopposed to their landing, but it took a period of six months to conquer the Japanese in a battle that remains significant in the World War history. As the World War II studies continue, the battle for Guadalcanal remains one of the most significant battles for the American troops during the World War II.
These great rulers set out, each with a massive amount of armies, for the recovery of the holy city of Jerusalem. The 1st to attack was Barbarosa, by taking the overland route, by the hardships of the march and the swords of the Turks. This great emperor was anyway near the days of his death, but nothing could have slowed down his crusading zeal. His army was attacked and he died drowning with most of his men, the rest went back to Germany. With Barbarosa gone, Philip 2 and Richard finally mustered their forces beneath wall of Acre.
He survived the war living to eighty years old but was deeply affected by the horrors of war. Wilfred Owen, also a lieutenant, was shot on the 4th November 1918, one week before Armistice Day. Owen met Sassoon at Craighart Hospital in Edinburgh, where Owen was suffering from shell shock after being blown up by a mortar. Sassoon’s poem, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ has a simple four line stanza with four stanzas in total. This regimental stile of writing is reflecting a regimented lifestyle.