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British Depth: Home War front Flashcards

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1
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How many men immediately signed up to fight in WW1?

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500,000

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How many men had signed up to fight by March 1916?

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2.5 million

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When was conscription introduced?

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1916

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What were ‘conchies’?

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Conscientious objectors

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What did ‘conchies’ do?

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They refused to fight for humanitarian or religious reasons

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What did ‘conchies’ do for the war?

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They usually did non-combatant work (e.g ambulance driving etc) but some were absolutists

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What were absolutists?

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They were people who refused to have anything to do with the war- they were sent to labour camps or prison

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8
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What were the three ways in which Britain was attacked in the war?

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Air, Naval and Zeppelin (bombing raids)

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In total how many zeppelin raids were there? How many people were killed by them?

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57 raids, 564 killed and 1370 injured

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10
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What did DORA stand for?

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Defence Of the Realms Act

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11
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Who was conscripted?

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Anyone between the ages of 18 and 40

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Why was conscription introduced?

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The number of volunteers in the army was falling- December 1915 had the lowest number of recruits since the war’s beginning

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13
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When was DORA passed?

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1914

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What powers did DORA give the government?

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Taking over businesses/land/industries and censor what people knew about the war

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15
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What year did the munitions crisis occur?

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1915

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16
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Who was the munitions crisis exposed by?

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The Daily Mail

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17
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Who was made minister of munitions?

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David Lloyd George

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18
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How many women signed up to work in industry in 1915?

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100,000

19
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How many women were initially given industry jobs in 1915?

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5000

20
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Why did trade unions resist women working in industry initially?

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They knew that women didn’t work for as much pay- so thought they would become more well employed than men and there wouldn’t be jobs left post-war

21
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What did Lloyd George do to prevent trade unions resisting women’s employment in industry?

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Gave men and women equal pay and promised not to keep women on after the war

22
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What organisation was set up in 1917?

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The Women’s Land army

23
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What was happening to food as the war progressed?

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In April 1917 German U-boats were sinking 1/4 of British merchant ships

24
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What extreme did the food shortage reach?

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In April 1917 Britain had only 6 weeks of wheat left

25
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When was voluntary rationing introduced?

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May 1917

26
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Why did many workers go on strike in 1917?

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Their wages were too low for the increasing price of food

27
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What happened to food supplies pre-rationing?

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Supply was dangerously low, and the rich bought more food than needed and hoarded it, whereas the poor could barely afford anything

28
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When was compulsory rationing introduced?

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early 1918

29
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What foods were rationed?

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sugar, butter, meat and beer

30
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How did the government control bread prices?

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In Nov 1917 they introduced the ‘nine-penny loaf’

31
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How did the Royal family try to support rationing?

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They declared that they would reduce their bread consumption by 1/4 and reduce use of flour (May 1917)

32
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When were journalists (even then only approved ones) first allowed at the front?

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November 1916

33
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Despite the issues of the first months of the war, what were people at home told?

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Only British victories were reported or heroic resistance

34
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When British battleship Audacious was sunk what happened?

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When it was sunk (in Oct 1914) it was simply not reported

35
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After the war what happened to the ‘paper barons’ - the heads of British newspapers?

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The leading 12 were given knighthoods for wartime services

36
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What happened to newspapers that were anti-war or posted balanced views on the war?

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They were initially tolerated but as the war continued pacifist papers (eg Tribunal) were shut down, and socialist ones (eg Daily Herald) were monitored

37
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What did censors examine in 1916?

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38,000 articles, 25,000 photographs and 300,000 private telegrams

38
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What did leading authors do to support the war?

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They (HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling) signed a Declaration by Authors in support of the war

39
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What was the ‘Red Book’?

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A five-volume explanation of Britain’s justification in going to war- made by Oxford University. 50,000 copies were sold

40
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How many war films were produced?

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240 between 1915 and 1918 (few of which were actually commissioned)

41
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Who created the most famous propaganda films?

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The British Topical committee for War Films- a group of film companies who made and sold film to the War Department

42
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What were the most famous war films?

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The Empire (approx. audience of 9 million) and The Battle of the Somme (showed real footage mixed in with staged footage) -had been shown in 2000/4500 cinemas in the country after only 3 months of release

43
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How many people were reading daily newspapers during the war?

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Over 1/2 of the country’s population- and this number increased through the war

44
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How many conchies actually were there?

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It was in reality a very small proportion, about 16,000 out of about 8 million who were conscripted

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