The Home Front Flashcards
What did DORA do?
Take controls of vital industry’s like coal, shipping and railways.
Take over three million acres of land and buildings.
Introduce british summer time. (More working time)
Controls drinking hours and the strength of alcohol.
Censor newspapers
Enforce rationing.
Stop people talking about war or spreading rumours.
Introduce conscription.
No one could spread military rumours.
People who went on strike were arrested.
When was the DORA put in place?
August 1914
When was conscription introduced?
Who had to join and what happened when people didn’t?
1916
All single men from 18-41 had to join. This was then extended to married men.
Conscientious objectors were put in prison and were treated as criminals and traitors.
When and why did food rationing start?
In April 1917 Britain had six weeks of wheat left.
In 1917 U-boats sank 46,000 tonnes of meat and 85,000 tonnes of sugar.
Rationing started in 1918 for beer, butter, sugar and meat.
Explain the extent of censorship during the war.
Letters from soldiers were censored.
Reporters couldn’t often see battles.
In 1915 newspapers were censored. The tribunal, a pacifist, news paper was shut down.
Photos of dead soldiers couldn’t be taken.
The government wouldn’t produce casualty figures.
Other than rationing, what was done about the food shortage?
POW, women and disabled soldiers were farming.
By 1918 1,500,000 allotments where in Britain.
The middle class were encouraged to eat less bread as the poor could only afford it.
How did woman encourage men to join the army?
The suffragists were a formidable publicity machine and they persuaded men to join.
The order of the white feather gave a white feather to men who didn’t join which was a sign or cowards.
The mothers union tried to persuade their sons to join.
Women members of the active service league made a vow to “persuade every man[they knew]” to join.
What was the opposition to woman workers?
Many felt they wouldn’t have the skills or the ability to learn them.
Unions felt they would be paid less, resulting in in less male wages.
How were women encouraged to work and what was the result?
The government set an example by employing nearly only women in its factories.
216,000 in the woman’s land army.
1.6 million doing work jobs.
What was rationing on?
Sugar, meat, butter, jam and tea.
When did the Germans bomb Scarborough ?
15th December 1914
How were women recruited?
There went as nurses into the voluntary Aid detachments.(VADs) or the first aid nursing yeomanry (FANY) and as drivers cooks and telephonists.
How elss did women help in the war?
They worked in munitions factories.
They took other mens jobs and became firemen, coalmen and bus conductors.
