The era of the great war

Question 1

6 reasons why Scot’s signed up to join the army

Answer 1

Adventure, propaganda, pals abatallion, incentives, pressure and patriotism

Question 2

6 elements of life in the trenches

Answer 2

Trench foot, rats, lice, fear of death, dead bodies and poor food

Question 3

6 tactics use in the war

Answer 3

Big push, artillery bombardment, use of tanks, use of gas, use of aircraft and use of machine guns

Question 4

6 key facts about gas as a weapon

Answer 4

Took a while to develop, chlorine- odour, mustard gas - yellow, blinded people, chlorine dissolved organs, less effective due to gas masks

Question 5

6 key facts about tanks

Answer 5

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

Question 6

6 key facts about machine guns

Answer 6

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 7

6 key facts about artillery

Answer 7

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

Question 8

4 key facts about aircraft

Answer 8

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

Question 9

6 restrictions introduce by DORA

Answer 9

Blackouts
Restricted areas
Pubs closed early
No buying rounds
censorship
BST

Question 10

6 reasons why DORA was introduced

Answer 10

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 11

6 reasons why people didn’t like DORA

Answer 11

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 12

6 reasons why rationing was introduced

Answer 12

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

Question 13

6 different types of women’s war work

Answer 13

Postal work
Munitions factories
Bus drivers
Police
Land girls
Ambulance driving

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Change in working patterns
Fashion
Voting
Leisure
Families
Munitions

Question 15

6 ways in which propaganda helped the war effort

Answer 15

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

Question 16

6 reasons why people became cosnientiosu objectors

Answer 16

Religion
Poor health
Immoral
Class war
Protecting families
pacifism

Question 17

6 key facts about conscription

Answer 17

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 18

6 ways in which conscientious objectors were treated

Answer 18

Jail
White feathers
Tribunals
Beaten
Abused in the streets
Work camps

Question 19

6 impacts casualties and deaths had in Scotland

Answer 19

Huge death toll
Grief
Poverty
Injuries
Memorials
Remembrance/poppies

Question 20

6 reserved occupations

Answer 20

Coastguard
Doctor
Train drivers
Engineers
Ministers
Munitions workers

Question 21

6 industries that did well during the war

Answer 21

Jute
Coal
Steel
Farming
Fishing
Shipbuilders

Question 22

6 reasons why industry decline after the war

Answer 22

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

Question 23

6 industries that grew in the 1920s

Answer 23

Airships
Cars
Electricity
Electrical goods
Chemicals
Buses and Lorrie’s

Question 24

6 ways agriculture and fishing were affected by the war

Answer 24

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

Question 25

6 reasons why women gained the vote

Answer 25

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

Question 26

6 tactics used by the suffragettes

Answer 26

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

Question 27

6 facts about the rents strikes

Answer 27

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 28

6 ways in which voting was changed in 1918

Answer 28

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 29

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

Answer 29

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