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Question 1

when did recruitment campaigns begin?

Answer 1

1914 Aug 2nd -day ear declared on G

Question 2

when was DORA set up?

Answer 2

8th August 1914

Question 3

when were the Scarborough bombings by G-ships?

Answer 3

December 1914

Question 4

what 2 things happened in 1915

Answer 4

• Coalition gov set up to handle war crisis

- Munitions crisis-women’s march for jobs

Question 5

what 3 things happened in 1916

Answer 5

• First military bill introduced (conscription 18-40)
• Battle of the Somme
• Lloyd George Prime Minister

Question 6

when was the battle of the Somme?

Answer 6

July-Nov 1916

Question 7

when was conscription of men from 18-40 introduced?

Answer 7

Jan 1916

Question 8

when was food rationing?

Answer 8

All year-1917

Question 9

When was compulsory food rationing?

Answer 9

1918

Question 10

when did the war end?

Answer 10

1918

Question 11

what 4 things happened in 1914?

Answer 11

• war declared on g
• recruitment campaigns begin
• DORA
• Scarborough bombings

Question 12

when was war declared on Germany?

Answer 12

1914

Question 13

in 1914 how many people were recruited in the first month?

Answer 13

1/2 a million

Question 14

when was the munitions crisis and how many rounds of munitions did they have a day?

Answer 14

3 rounds a day

1915

Question 15

how many women registered to work in 1915?

how many were given jobs?

Answer 15

100,000

5,000

Question 16

in 1916 how many workers were on strike?

how many working days were lost?

what year??

Answer 16

235,000 workers of strike

2.5 million working days lost

1916!!!!

Question 17

how many workers were on strike in 1918

how many working days were lost?

Answer 17

900,000 workers on strike -1918

over 6 million working days lost

Question 18

when was the women’s land army set up?

Answer 18

feb 1917

Question 19

in 1916 how many and who voted against conscription?

Answer 19

50 liberal mp’s voted against conscription

Question 20

how many people died during the battle of the Somme?

Answer 20

half a million people died

Question 21

at the end of the war how many women were doing men’s jobs?

Answer 21

half a million

Question 22

how many people died and were injured during the silver town explosion?

what did it show

Answer 22

73 died

400 injured

showed how bad and dangerous factory work was