Prelim revision

Question 1

What were 6 tactics used in the war

Answer 1

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

Question 2

6 key fact about gas as a weapon

Answer 2

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

Question 3

6 key facts about machine guns

Answer 3

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

Question 4

6 key facts about artillery

Answer 4

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

Question 5

4 key facts about aircraft

Answer 5

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

Question 6

6 restrictions under Dora

Answer 6

Blackouts
Restricted areas
Pubs closed early
No buying rounds
censorship
BST

Question 7

6 reasons why DORA was introduced

Answer 7

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

Question 8

6 reasons why people didn’t like DORA

Answer 8

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

Question 9

6 different types of women’s war work

Answer 9

Postal work
Munitions factories
Bus drivers
Police
Land girls
Ambulance driving

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Change in working patterns
Fashion
Voting
Leisure
Families
Munitions

Question 11

6 ways in which propaganda helped the war effort

Answer 11

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

Question 12

6 reasons why people became conscientious objectors

Answer 12

Religion
Poor health
Immoral
Class war
Protecting families
pacifism

Question 13

6 key facts about conscription

Answer 13

Jan 1916
volunteer numbers were falling
All unmarried men between 18-41
Reserved occupations exempt
Married men up to 51 from May 1916
2.3 mill conscripted

Question 14

6 ways in which conscientious objectors were treated

Answer 14

Jail
White feathers
Tribunals
Beaten
Abused in the streets
Work camps

Question 15

6 impacts and deaths and in Scotland

Answer 15

Huge death toll
Grief
Poverty
Injuries
Memorials
Remembrance/poppies

Question 16

6 reserved occupations

Answer 16

Coastguard
Doctor
Train drivers
Engineers
Ministers
Munitions workers

Question 17

6 industries that did well during the war

Answer 17

Jute
Coal
Steel
Farming
Fishing
Shipbuilders

Question 18

6 industries that grew in the 1920s

Answer 18

Airships
Cars
Electricity
Electrical goods
Chemicals
Buses and lorries

Question 19

6 ways that agriculture and fishing were affected by the war

Answer 19

Demand for wool
Women farmers
High shepherd’s wages
U Boats
Loss of foreign markets
Navy control

Question 20

6 reasons why women gained the vote

Answer 20

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

Question 21

6 facts about the rent strikes

Answer 21

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

Question 22

6 ways in which voting was changed in 1918

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

6 key facts about the slave factories

Answer 24

Unhygienic
Dark
Separated families
Branded
Disease
Punishment

Question 25

6 impacts of the slave trade on Africa

Answer 25

Depopulation
Disease
Lack of Development
Families Separated
Tribal Warfare
Normalisation of Racism

Question 26

6 punishments Carrie Doug on plantations

Answer 26

Whipping
Amputation
Sexual Abuse
Face Obstructions
Families separated
Hanging/Half Hanging

Question 27

6 methods of resistance used on the plantations

Answer 27

Working Slowly
Breaking tools
Maintaining African Culture
Pretending not to understand
Running away
Arson

Question 28

6 arguments against the abolition of the slave trade

Answer 28

Profits
Jobs
Expensive compensation
Fear of revolt
Loss of tax revenue
MP’s invested

Question 29

6 arguments for the abolition of the slave trade

Answer 29

Cruelty
Religion
Cheaper workers elsewhere
Unfair competition
Global image
Negative impact on industrialisation

Question 30

6 methods used by the abolitionists

Answer 30

Lobbying MPs
Producing coins/pottery
Evidence gathering
Propaganda
Publicity
Petitions

Question 31

6 reasons why immigrants moved to the USA

Answer 31

American dream
Open door policy
Jews
Germans
Peasants
Russians

Question 32

6 problems faced by new immigrants to the USA

Answer 32

Slum housing
Cramped
Spread of disease
Racism
Low payed jobs
Dangerous jobs

Question 33

6 ways in which the government restricted immigration

Answer 33

Literacy tests
3% of each nationality 1921
2% in 1924
150,000 in 1929
No Chinese
No Japanese

Question 34

6 Jim Crow laws that affected black Americans

Answer 34

separate public transport
Separate public places
Separate schools
Excluded black peopel from voting
No inter racial marriage
Different types of housing

Question 35

6 methods used by the kkk

Answer 35

Marches
Cross burnings
Lynchings
The invisible empire
All white robes
Prevention from voting