World War 1 Story

At school we have been writing stories of World War 1. This is my second story I wrote.

World War 1

Life as a child in World War 1 wasn’t easy. They had many duties to do as their loved ones went away to fight at war. They had to do extra work and all the jobs their family did before they left. Nobody predicted it was going to happen. Then on the 28th of July 1914 the war had begun.

It started off as a local war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Then it involved 32 countries in the fight. Our Allies included Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States. Our Allies fought against the Central Powers that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Then on June 28th Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian soldier. After the assassination Austria declared war on Serbia. Then a few days later Germany had declared war on Russia and then on France.

The war progressed and countries starting taking sides and fought against each other. More countries starting joining the war and it progressed to having 32 countries.

Then after the war had grown larger and larger the United States entered the war against Germany on April 6th 1917. They entered the war because Germain’s were sinking ships that had Americans on board.

Then on November 11th 1918 the war ended. The winners were our Allies. Through all these years children had to struggle without other family members around. But they made it through everything. They kept in contact with their family in the war and sent them biscuits and warm socks that they knitted. The children waited for their family to get back but some of them didn’t come home.

Here is a screencastfy of me reading the story