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HISTORY GREAT WAR Flashcards

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6 reasons why Scots signed up to join the army

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Propaganda
Adventure
Pals battalion
Pay
Life is Boring
Patriotism

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6 elements of life in the trenches

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Trench Foot
Rats
Lice
Fear of Death
Dead bodies
Poor food

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6 tactics used in the War

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Big push
Artillery bombardment
Use of tanks
Use of gas
Use of aircraft
Use of machine guns

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6 key facts about gas as a weapon

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Took a while to develop
Chlorine - odour
Mustard Gas - yellow
Blinded people
Chlorine dissolved organs
Less effective due to gas masks

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6 key facts about machine guns

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600 bullets a minute
100 x faster than rifle
Good against infantry
Heavy and needed a stand
At least 3 men needed to operate them
Could overheat

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6 key facts about tanks

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Could cross rough ground
Could thrash through barbed wire
Slow
Hot inside
Often broke down
Stuck in mud

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5 key facts about artillery

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Can shoot 900kg shells
Range of 18km
Full of shrapnel
Caused big craters
Many packed with faulty shells

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4 key facts about aircraft

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Initially used for spying
Did drop bombs but poor accuracy
Some mounted with rifles
Difficult to fire through propellers

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6 restrictions introduced by DORA

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Blackouts
Restricted areas
Pubs closed early
No buying rounds
censorship
BST

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6 reasons why DORA was introduced

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To keep transport safe
To keep people sober
To stop spies
To make Britain hard to bomb
To control the news
To keep military secrets

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6 reasons why people didn’t like DORA

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News was being controlled
Pubs lost money
Movement was restricted
It was dangerous to walk at night
Inconvenient to move round the country
Daylight was shorter in winter

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6 reasons why rationing was introduced

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U Boats
Food needed for soldiers
Stop panic buying
Stop riots
Allotments insufficient
Potato crop failed

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6 different types of Women’s War Work

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Postal work
Munitions factories
Bus drivers
Police
Land girls
Ambulance driving

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6 ways in which women’s roles changed during the War

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Change in working patterns
Fashion
Voting
Leisure
Families
munitions

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6 ways in which propaganda helped the war efforts

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Recruitment
Encourage patriotism
Vilify the enemy
Practical support
Encourage rationing
Appeals to women

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6 reasons why people became conscientious objectors

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Religion
Poor health
Immoral
Class war
Protecting families
pacifism

15
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6 ways in which conscientious objectors were treated

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Jail
White feathers
Tribunals
Beaten
Abused in the streets
Work camps

15
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6 impacts casualties and deaths had in Scotland

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Most families lost someone
Memorials
Poppies
Towns devastated
Cost of veterans
Remembrance day

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6 industries that did well during the war

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Jute
Coal
Steel
Farming
Fishing
Shipbuilders

16
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6 reserved occupations

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Coastguard
Doctor
Train drivers
Engineers
Ministers
Munitions workers

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6 reasons why industry declined after the war

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Over-reliance on war orders
Lack of investment
Slump in international trade
Foreign competition
Strikes
Interdependency

18
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6 industries that grew in the 1920’s

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Airships
Cars
Electricity
Electrical goods
Chemicals
Buses and lorries

19
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6 tactics used by the Suffragettes

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Chained to railings
Window breaking
Blowing up post boxes
Cutting phone wires
Slashing paintings
Acid on golf courses

19
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6 reasons why women gained the vote

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Suffragists
Suffragettes
War work
Changing status of women
Men were getting it
Government attitudes changing

20
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6 facts about the rent strikes

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Landlords put up rents by 25%
Women’s groups form in protest
Evictions met with protests
Flour bombs and fruit
People gather outside courts
Strikes elsewhere

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6 ways in which voting was changed in 1918

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Women over 30
Women must though own property or be married to a property owner
Men over 21
Men over 19 if army
9.2 mill women voters
Electorate triples

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6 facts about housing in Scotland at the end of the war

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DLG promises homes fit for heroes
Slums cleared
Councils to build new houses
Only 210k/500k built
Aims for indoor sanitation
500k built by 1933

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