A mindmap comparing the impact of WW1 on cvilian population un UK and Germany during WW1. Mentions women, conscription, propaganda, government control, war production, food, finance, workforce. Was used for IB History HL Paper 2 in Causes and Consequences of the First World War.
It would have been utterly impossible for
us to have waged a successful war had it
not been for the skill and ardour,
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
enthusiasm and industry which the
women of this country have thrown into
the war.[
Women
Br: women joined a variety of voluntary
"dilution of labour"industry redesigned
organizations to support war effort, eg
work so that it could be done by unskilled
Women's Land Army established to replce
men and women
male farm workers
Br: The government made regular use of
propaganda, such as the film The Battle of
the Somme, which an estimated 20
million Britons watched, to mobilise
support for the war - 1916 Br; The Defence of the Realm Act - 1914
Cencorship of newspaper
Br in 1914: London appointed ‘official’
military journalists and set up the War
Office Press Bureau, an agency that Propaganda
processed stories and distributed them to
newspapers
Government agencies and the military
were authorised to prevent the
publication of offensive or dangerous
material in newspapers and books; to
open and censor civilian mail; to tap into
telegraph and telephone communications.
Br: British civilians also came under attack
from the air, initially in the shape of
Zeppelin raids from 1915 and later by large Civilians under fire Home front
Gotha bombers. In total about 1,400
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