Gallipoli - Marblehead High School
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Gallipoli
Why is Turkey Significant?
Turkey is Germany’s
weaker ally
Britain and France
want to take care of
Turkey quickly
– then give more
attention to Russia
What is the Dardanelles?
Narrow strip of water
between Sea of
Marmara and
Constantinople
Key to defeating
Turkey
To take Turkey, must
take Gallipoli
peninsula
When did ANZAC troops land at
Gallipoli?
April 25th 1915
Still celebrated as ANZAC Day
[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]
Why were the attacks on Lone Pine
and Nek made?
Diversionary purposes
British plan to land at
Suvla
What was ANZAC Cove like?
Photo Courtesy of the
Australian War
Memorial
Supplies had to come from Egypt
Health risks were high – dysentery, diseases
VERY close to enemy trenches
ALL the makings of a LEGEND!
What is the ANZAC legend?
The legend is the attention given to the
ANZACs at Gallipoli which turns military
defeat into moral victory.
C.E.W. Bean – Australian correspondent,
then war historian, director of Australian
War Memorial
– Links Australians as soldiers to local conditions
in Australia
(myth of the bush man)
Peter Weir’s Film Gallipoli
1981
As we view the film, think, then write
answers to these:
– How does it contribute to the ANZAC legend?
– Who are the heroes? How are they elevated?
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Motives for joining?
– Patriotism; want to do "their bit"
– Thirst for adventure; to escape boredom
– Get a job & fancy uniform ("…girls love the
uniform…")
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Was this an informed decision?
– Propaganda
"I don’t know what started it, but it was the
Germans' fault…"
"If we don’t stop them there, they'll come here
next…"
– "…and they're welcome to it…"
"Don't see what its got to do with us…"
During World War I
Australia was a Dominion of the British
Empire, along with Canada & New Zealand
– Not completely independent in military
matters
When Great Britain went to war in 1914, Australia,
Canada & New Zealand automatically did too