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Flashcards by missalicelinsell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by missalicelinsell
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| Question | Answer |
| What does Total War mean? | The whole country was affected by the war |
| Why was there huge enthusiasm for the war in 1914? | Fighting in the war could be an adventure, it was right to fight for your country and the war would be "over by Christmas" - Britain would easily win. |
| How did the government keep people ignorant of what was going on? | Letters from soliders were censored, reporters weren't allowed to see battle, newspapers were censored from 1914, no photographs of the dead, casualty figures not available. |
| How did people learn the truth about the war? | 1500 civilians were killed (bombs), no obvious success until 1918, crippled/blinded who returned home and deaths couldn't be kept from families, rationing was difficult and a hardship. Taxes had increased. |
| When were most people sick of the war? | 1917 |
| What did Britain use to encourage people to fight? | Properganda |
| Who was Lord Kitchener? | The Secretary for War |
| What did Lord Kitchener want to introduce in 1914? | Conscription |
| Prime Minister Asquith refused to introduce conscription in 1914. What method did he use to encourage volunteers into the army? | He use a huge poster campagin. |
| When was the War Propaganda Burea formed? | September 1914 |
| What did the War Propaganda Bureau do? | Asked 25 of Britains best writers to aid the war effort. |
| Which department produced propaganda films? | The Ministry of Information |
| What film was so realistic that it could have been seen as anti-war? | The Battle of the Somme (1916) |
| What did the government set up in Juner 1917 to issue propaganda literature and sponsor speeches to improve morale? | a National War Aims Committee |
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