giới thiệu đến bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 174 - Australia and the Great War nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập, luyện tập nhằm nắm vững được những kiến thức, kĩ năng cơ bản, đồng thời vận dụng kiến thức để giải các bài tập đề thi một cách thuận lợi. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | IELTS Academic Reading Sample 174 - Australia and the Great War Australia and the Great War 1914 1918 Australia s role in the First World War or the Great War as it was known until 1939 is central to the development of modern Australia s vision of itself in the world. In many ways it has served to create what is in some ways a second founding of the nation in the Gallipoli campaign and on the battlefields of France and Belgium. The influence of the war experience in the First and Second World War is evident in the way in which ANZAC day is perhaps even more than Australia day the country s national day. When the war broke out in 1914 it was a certainty that because of longstanding economic family and defense ties Australia along with New Zealand would stand alongside Britain. The then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was quick to pledge the country s support to the last man the last shilling . This was no idle promise and Australia paid a high price for their loyalty to their colonizers. From a pre-war population of 5m 417 000 enlisted in the armed forces of which 324 000 served abroad. By the end of the war Australia had lost 60 000 dead and 155 000 men had been wounded. The economic price was also high. The national debt which had stood at 6m in 1914 was 325m by the end of the war. It is possible that the first shot of the war was fired in Australia when a shot was fired across the bow of the German merchant ship Pfalz as it tried to escape from Port Arthur only a few hour after the declaration of war. In late 1914 the light cruiser HMAS Sydney sank the German warship Emden off the west coast of the country. Also early in the war Australian troops captured the German radio transmitters in Rabaul and Nauru and conquered all of German New Guinea. At first the Australian forces were intended only to defend Australia but in 1915 the Australia New Zealand Army Corps ANZAC departed for Europe. Their first stop was Egypt and it was because they were so close that they were
