WWI Key Events Flashcards
Patriotic Auxiliary Service Law
- 1916
- Germany
- A law that gave the German government the ability to control people aged 17-60 years of age.
DORA
Defence of the Realm Act
- 1914
- Britain
- A law that allowed the British government to have greater power during the war
Secret War Propaganda Bureau
- August 1914
- British
Derby Scheme
- British
- October 1915
- introduced to increase recruitment numbers
Ocean liner Luistania sunk by German submarines
- American
- May 1915
- encouraged American animosity for Germany but did not trigger them entering the war
First Military Service Act
- British
- January 1916
- all single men aged 18-41 could be recruited
Second Military Service Act
- British
- May 1916
- conscription for all men aged 18-41
Propaganda taken over by Department of Information
- British
- February 1917
National War Aims Committee
- British
- June 1917
Ministry of information runs propoganda
- British
- February 1918
War Raw Materials Department
- AKA The KRA (the Kriegsrohstoffabteilung)
- Germany
- 3 Aug 1916
- Rathenau its director
- The KRA controlled raw materials and labour
Union of Democratic Control
- British
- 1914
- Anti-war organisation
No Conscription Fellowship
- British
- 1915
- Anti-conscription group
Papal Peace Note
- 1917
- Made in effort for peace by the Pope
USDP
- German
- A radical socialist party which opposed the war
German government invokes the Seige Law of 1971 and declares martial law in country
31 July 1914
Germany declares war on Russia
1 August 1914
Germany declares war on France
3 August 1914
Britain declares war on Germany
4 August 1914
Imposition of Allied naval blockade against Germany
August 1914
Ernst Lissauer writes ‘Hymn of Hate’
October 1915
No Conscription Fellowship
- British
- 1915
- anti-conscription group
USDP
- German
- radical socialist party that was anti-war
