6: Britain's wartime economy

Question 1

What were there huge demands for? (3)

Answer 1

• provide transport
• increase and protect the provision of food
• ensure there were adequate supplies of fuel, above all coal

Question 2

What did the huge demands posed by war do?

Answer 2

• Pushed up the prices

- created shortages of both workers and materials in 1914

Question 3

How did the State help private industry who couldn’t cope by themself?

Answer 3

They began commandeering stocks of vital war materials and fixing prices.

Question 4

What did Lloyd George persuade parliament to grant and when?

Answer 4

1915

-more state powers over the industry by extending the DORA act