Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GCSE OCR Impact of WW1 on Britain
1914-1918
- DORA 1916
- Defence Of the Realm Act
- British Summer Time
- Farmers could work longer hours
- Control over media and news
- Conscription
- Rationings
- Watered down beer
- Less drunk people, people work
better
- Properganda
- Makes people think certain
things
- Make people join the
Army
- Types
- Stories
- GB were told that Germany stabbed
babies
- Make GB hate Germans and want to fight
them
- Posters
- Lord Kitchener's
- Cinemas showed news that may have been over exaggerated
- Books
- Speeches
- What it
showed
- Food
shortages
- That people should hate Germans
- Get men to join the Army
- Get women to join jobs
- Attitudes at the end of the war
- British were angry at Germany
- Believed that the Germans were to blame for the war
- Blamed them for economic problems
- The price of the war was expensive
- Transport
- Food
- Clothing
- Weapons
- Annoyed at how much was lost
- Homes
- Family
- Friends
- Food shortages
- Ships were being sunk by German U-Boats
- Women had to grow food
- Land Army
- Treaty of Versailles
- June 28th the Treaty was signed
- France wanted to treat the German harshly
- USA wanted a fair Treaty
- GB was 'on the fence'
- Not too harsh but harsh enough that they learn their lesson
- Land was taken away from Germany
- German's Army was reduced to 100,000 men
- No tanks
- No airforce
- No submaries
- 6 battleships
- No troops in the Rineland (near France)
- Germany was to pay £6 million of reparations