Why were New Zealand involved in the 1915 Gallipoli war?
The reason New Zealand was in World War 1 was it was part of the British Commonwealth. At the time of Gallipoli Britain had most of her forces in France and had very few available for the invasion of Gallipoli so the ANZAC forces were used for this part of the invasion. As for what they were fighting for was a strong hold on Southern Europe to flank the Germans. By getting this toe hold they could flank Germany and get a third front opened making it harder on Germany to fight. The outcome of the invasion was catastrophic as the British commanders in charge did not effectively use of he Battleships on hand and even when it was know that the city couldn’t be taken the British Commanders forced the troops to charge anyway. The outcome was over 44,000 dead Australian and New Zealand and British troops dead and 100,000 more injured and the city still in Turkish hands. After the disaster of Galliopli future beach invasions were preceded by air and naval bombardments before the invasion troop
