Activity 1: An Eventful Experience
3 September: Britain, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany
The military history of New Zealand during World War II began when New Zealand entered the Second World War by declaring war on Nazi Germany with Great Britain. The state of war with Germany was officially held to have existed since 9:30 pm on 3 September 1939 (local time), simultaneous with that of Britain, but in fact the declaration of war was not made until confirmation had been received from Britain that their ultimatum to Germany had expired. The group (led by Peter Fraser as Prime Minister Mickey Savage was terminally ill) listened to the shortwave radio in Carl Berendsen's room in Parliament Buildings but were not certain what Neville Chamberlain had said because of static on the short-wave radio, and a coded telegraph message from London did not arrive until just before midnight as the messenger boy with the telegram in London took shelter because of a (false) air-raid warning. The Cabinet acted after hearing the Admiralty's notification to the fleet that war had broken out. The next day Cabinet approved nearly 30 war regulations as laid down in the War Book, and after completing the formalities with the Executive Council the Governor-General, Lord Galway, issued the Proclamation of War, backdated to 9.30 pm on 3 September.[1][2]
I got this information from the Wikipedia site.
Hi James
ReplyDeleteYou have got some really good information, however the task was for you to read about the even and then put this into your own words.
Do you think that you would be able to do this?
I would love to give you the full points however you would need to do this one again.
Give it a go James
I look forward to seeing you give this another go.
Until then
Allie:)