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Why Australians Joined WW1 - Coggle Diagram
Why Australians Joined WW1
Honour
Doing good and the right thing
Honourable to die for your country
Mateship
Join your mates
Fight together with them
If they die - Have to Honour their Sacrifice
Employment
Get paid
Jobs were hard to get
Seen as easy to get paid for war
Loyalty To Britain
Loyal to Britain because Australia was under British Rule
Colony
Mostly were British - some part of the family would be British
1st and 2nd Generation British
Adventure
Fun - 'all expenses paid trip'
Home By Christmas
Meant to be quick and easy - 3 months and no death
White Feather
Coward
People got sent White Feathers if they didn't fight
Nationalism/Prove Australia
Love for your Country
Thinking you're better than everyone else (the best country
Needed to prove Australia because we were a new country
Originally set up as a place for convicts
Penal Colony
Needed own identity - Anzacs
Which reasons stayed?
Home by Christmas was gone quickly
Wasn't so much of an adventure anymore
Employment wasn't worth it
Mateship was made stronger
Honour was also made stronger - due to the increase in deaths
Nationalism/Prove Australia got stronger
The White Feather became stronger
Conscription
Forced to join the war
Didn't happen in WW1, but they did vote twice - no
Main method to convey this was Propaganda