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The Battle Of Gallipoli By Winston Churchill And Mustafa Kemal

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Leadership:
These visuals show the historical idea of leadership and how it is significant in the battle of Gallipoli. World War I was the first global conflict. There were many territorial disputes and interlocking alliances that led to declarations of war and the act of leadership has consequences for many men both positive and negative. There were many leaders who were involved in the Gallipoli campaign who attempted saving nations and stopping conflicts. A few leaders of this war made the major impacts and decisions which lead to this outbreak of devastation, two men in particular who have been known to be the main instigators involved in World War I and that is Winston Churchill and Mustafa Kemal.

For New Zealanders, these two leaders have a significance to us other than just war. First one being, Winston Churchill, who was a strategist but also a leader. He believed there was a shortcut to victory and defeating the Great War such as creating another front to force German’s into splitting their military forces further apart. By creating a division lead the Germans needing to support the Turkish Army. His plan was to entirely ignore the Western fronts and instead send the British Navy to attack the Eastern fronts where the Ottoman empire was located. Churchill believed it would be an easy attack because they were an empire that was in decline for centuries, they were weak. Churchill decided to join allies with France, Russia and the ANZAC’s and the Ottoman Empire

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