Era of the Great War

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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
- Problems In Trenches
  - Deep mud
  - Deep water
  - Trench foot
    - Deep water
  - Rats
    - Lice
      - Itching
  - 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
- Restrictions
  - D.O.R.A
    - Alcohol restrictions
    - Alien registration
    - Conscription
  - Rationing
  - British Summer Time
- 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
- 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
- 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

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