WWI Key Events Flashcards
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Patriotic Auxiliary Service Law
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- 1916
- Germany
- A law that gave the German government the ability to control people aged 17-60 years of age.
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DORA
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Defence of the Realm Act
- 1914
- Britain
- A law that allowed the British government to have greater power during the war
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Secret War Propaganda Bureau
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- August 1914
- British
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Derby Scheme
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- British
- October 1915
- introduced to increase recruitment numbers
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Ocean liner Luistania sunk by German submarines
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- American
- May 1915
- encouraged American animosity for Germany but did not trigger them entering the war
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First Military Service Act
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- British
- January 1916
- all single men aged 18-41 could be recruited
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Second Military Service Act
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- British
- May 1916
- conscription for all men aged 18-41
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Propaganda taken over by Department of Information
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- British
- February 1917
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National War Aims Committee
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- British
- June 1917
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Ministry of information runs propoganda
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- British
- February 1918
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War Raw Materials Department
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- AKA The KRA (the Kriegsrohstoffabteilung)
- Germany
- 3 Aug 1916
- Rathenau its director
- The KRA controlled raw materials and labour
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Union of Democratic Control
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- British
- 1914
- Anti-war organisation
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No Conscription Fellowship
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- British
- 1915
- Anti-conscription group
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Papal Peace Note
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- 1917
- Made in effort for peace by the Pope
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USDP
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- German
- A radical socialist party which opposed the war
