Era of the Great War
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- Created on: 19-05-16 17:40
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- Era of the Great War
- Recruitment
- patriotism, peer pressure, pals battalions, sense of adventure, family pressure, fear of looking like a coward, short war
- New Technology
- Gas
- Heavily dependent on wind, not very effective
- Machine Guns
- can fire 600 bullets per minute
- Tanks
- drive over rough terrain, destroy machine guns, heavily armoured
- Artillery Guns
- Gas
- Problems In Trenches
- Deep mud
- Deep water
- Trench foot
- Deep water
- Rats
- Lice
- Itching
- Lice
- Stalemate
- New Technology
- Gas
- Heavily dependent on wind, not very effective
- Machine Guns
- can fire 600 bullets per minute
- Tanks
- drive over rough terrain, destroy machine guns, heavily armoured
- Artillery Guns
- Gas
- New Technology
- Restrictions
- D.O.R.A
- Alcohol restrictions
- Alien registration
- Conscription
- Rationing
- British Summer Time
- D.O.R.A
- Women's Rights
- Suffragists
- Peaceful protest
- Petitions, letters, campaigns
- Not taken seriously
- Suffragettes
- Arson, smashing windows, publicity
- Scared government, made people disapprove of women rights, cat and mouse act
- War work
- Munitions
- Taking over mens jobs
- Land army
- Led to women getting the vote
- Suffragists
- Industry
- Heavy industries
- Steel
- Shipbuilding
- Iron
- Coal
- Decline at the end of the war, foreign competition, refusal to use new technology
- Fishing
- Used for mine-sweeping during the war
- Fishermen weren't compensated well and boats needed replaced, decline in industry
- New industries
- Cars
- Chemical
- Electronics
- Aircrafts
- Heavy industries
- Red Clydeside and rent strikes
- soldiers coming home faced un-employment
- Threat of revolution
- Rent strikes
- Women protested the rise in rent during and after war
- soldiers coming home faced un-employment
- Recruitment
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