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Home Fronts + Total War Flashcards

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Propaganda

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Deliberate presentation of one side of an issue

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Mutiny

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Rebellion by soldiers against their officers, often violent

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War-weariness

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Feeling of people who desperately desired an end to the war

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Lord Kitchener

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British minister of war until 1916, on the recruitment posters

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Dilution

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Process in Britain allowing unskilled workers into skilled occupations

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Ersatz goods

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Substitute goods produced when regular goods can’t be obtained

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Supreme war office

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Set up by Hindenburg in 1916 to control war production

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Total war

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The dedication of a nations entire resources and energy to the war effort

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War socialism

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Government control of the economy during the war

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Absolutists

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Conscientious objectors who refuse to participate in even non-combatant duties

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Boche

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French slang term of abuse for a German

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Censorship

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Policy of preventing the publication of unacceptable views or information

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Conchies

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Slang term for conscientious objector- people who refuse to enlist in the army on moral grounds

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Propaganda

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Deliberate presentation of one side of an issue

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Conscription

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Compulsory enlistment of men into the armed forces

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Martial law

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Military rule imposed on a civilian society

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No conscription fellowship

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British anti-conscription group formed in 1915

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Papal peace note

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Peace effort by the pope 1917

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Spartacists

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Members to the far left in Germany who eventually became the communist party

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SDP

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Social Democratic Party

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Union of democratic control

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British anti-war organisation formed in 1914

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Zeppelin

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German airship that bombed Britain during the war

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USDP

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Radical German socialist party opposed to the war

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