3 Class and social change and the Impact of the wars 1918-1939

Question 1

Impact of WWI

3 things

Answer 1

1. decline in deference
2. decline in the upper class
3. increase in equality

Question 2

Decline in deference

Answer 2

working/middle class even during the war.
high death toll shook confidence of upper class generals who led them.

Question 3

Decline in the upper class

Answer 3

1914 alone 6 peers, 16 baronets, 261 aristocrats lost their lives.

Lots had to pay death duties, and sold their land and stately homes to pay for this

Question 4

Increase in equality

Answer 4

People could vote after 1918. People had more affluent lifestyles than their parents.

Question 5

Class and social values during 1918-1939: (still)

Answer 5

still lots of social barriers and conventions.

Question 6

1919 government feared…

Answer 6

open revolt

Question 7

working class attitudes

Answer 7

had changed.
- class conflicts were rare, strikes were in decline
- the depression undermined working class solidarity

Question 8

Union membership…

Answer 8

• declined due to unemployment in some areas, (clydeside) while there was a growth of new jobs and affluence in the midlands and the southeast