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How Did ANZAC Day Start?

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The term ANZAC is an abbreviation for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day is celebrated to commemorate the day Australia and New Zealand's armed forces saw action for the first time during World War I. ANZAC Day is celebrated on April 25 every year, as it was on that day in 1915 that soldiers of Australia and New Zealand's armies, who were part of the allied forces, reached Gallipoli in an attempt to defeat the Turkish forces stationed there. The Turkish forces were part of the Ottoman Empire, which itself was an ally of Germany during World War I.

Any hopes of a blitz and a quick victory evaporated rapidly as the Turkish soldiers held on to their positions doggedly, ensuring that the battle lasted an entire eight months. They suffered heavy losses during this time, and also inflicted heavy losses on the Australian and New Zealand soldiers. The Australians and New Zealanders were finally pulled out along with other allied forces. The losses they suffered were devastating, with official sources putting the number of Australian casualties at more than 8,000.
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On the 25th of April 1916
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ANZAC is the legend from WW1 on the beaches of turkey, and surrounding gallipoli. ANZAC = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It was some of the  most gruesome battles of any of the wars that Australia had ben involved in. It is an extremely long story, but basically the aussie and kiwi troops were dropped at the wrong beach, and the place they were dropped at was under extremely high cover and they were trapped on the beach mostly for the duration of the fight. Hundreds of lives were lost, just because they were dropped at the wrong point. To rise moral, it was deveoped that the bunch of aussie and kiwi soldiers involved would be called the ANZAC's. ANZAC day was designed to commemorate and remember all of the autralian and new zealand soldiers that fell, and they also named the beach that they landed on ANZAC cove. It is a very solemn day in australia and many, including my family, commeroate the fateful day in WW1 and also all the victims lost in all the other wars preceeding it. ANZAC day started, probably a year after the end of WW1, but became extremely popular after WW2 as well.
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That doesnt tall me anything at all i want to know when ANZAC day was first made



what year
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People started a war for land
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Anzac Day started on the 25th April, 94 years ago from 09- whenever that was! I have lots of homework so I don't have time to figure it out.
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Heaps and heaps of people came together and de sided to br apart of the army......anzac was invented in 25th of april

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