Social Impact Of WW1

Question 1

Effect on middle and upper-class

Answer 1

Reduced standard of living due to increased income tax and limits on profits
landed classes hit hard by high death rate amongst junior officers and additional land taxes

Question 2

Difference between classes

Answer 2

Division is not broken down but death toll created common bond of suffering Working-class women worked in factories munitions a middle-class had jobs like nursing

Question 3

Effect and Adult men

Answer 3

6 million men and Armed Forces 750,000 killed 2 million wounded official secrets act and Dora restricted freedom of info about
war soldiers and workers faced restrictions on things like social drinking with
Workers have to except being replaced by working with women
Higher taxes
more freedom in long-term are all men over the age of 21 could vote

Question 4

Effect on beliefs and attitudes

Answer 4

Education disrupted by conscription church workers catered for spiritual and religious needs of armies
church attendance Rose and then declined further after war
in 1901 adult attendance 35% in 1935 it was less than 18%
Weakened the belief that Europe was superior

Question 5

Women in the work force

Answer 5

1 million women entered the work force 250,000 move from peacetime to wartime jobs in 1918 1/3 of the workforce was a woman munitions in 1918 the middle of 80% of shell factory workers

Question 6

Women in transport

Answer 6

18,000 in 1914

117,000 in 1918

Question 7

Auxiliary services

Answer 7

1918 150,000 women as clerks drivers mechanics

Question 8

Negative effects on women

Answer 8

Working conditions were dirty and dangerous
many women and women were killed or injured and shell factory explosions more than hundred died from diseases caused by poisonous chemicals
Long hours a night shift disrupted family life
Still expected to bring up children
increase in workers seen as temporary many returned to prewar jobs
In 1921 the percentage of women in the work force is not much different from 1911

Question 9

Positive effect on women

Answer 9

War work was better paid than domestic service such as textile mills challenge Victorian ideas that women belong to the home 
Many became the main breadwinner and more earning more than ever middle class more financially independent

Question 10

1919 sex disqualification act

Answer 10

Open up civil service local government and Jury services to women

Question 11

Impact on working-class

Answer 11

Full employment
the percentage of the population in the property was significantly reduced due to rationing and controls and rents and prices