When Australia joined the war in August 1914, the reaction was one of excitement, especially among young men. Australian men answered the call to war with a sense of adventure, duty and enthusiasm. As Australian armed forces grew from 3,000 to 50,000, some soldiers struggled with the discipline of military life.
America failed to predict the attack made by the Arabs and
Egyptians. They still believed that such
an attack on Israel would not be possible.
Still, this caused the Israelis to beef up their intelligence and their
defense. This also establish peace
relations between Egypt and Israel.
Here are some of the weapons first used in WWI. Airplanes, Derigables, poison gas, flamethrower, and tanks. Other weapons that were invented before the war but not used on a wide scale or were not reliable until WWI were the machine gun, submarines, torpedoes, small mortars and very large caliber artillery. WWI also saw the use of the radio for the first time in combat conditions.
