Prelim revision Flashcards
What were 6 tactics used in the war
Big push
Artillery bombardment
Use of tanks
Use of gas
Use of aircraft
Use of machine guns
6 key fact about gas as a weapon
Took a while to develop
Chlorine - odour
Mustard Gas - yellow
Blinded people
Chlorine dissolved organs
Less effective due to gas masks
6 key facts about machine guns
600 bullets a minute
100 x faster than rifle
Good against infantry
Heavy and needed a stand
At least 3 men needed to operate them
Could overheat
6 key facts about artillery
Can shoot 900kg shells
Range of 18km
Full of shrapnel
Caused big craters
Many packed with faulty shells
4 key facts about aircraft
Initially used for spying
Did drop bombs but poor accuracy
Some mounted with rifles
Difficult to fire through propellers
6 restrictions under Dora
Blackouts
Restricted areas
Pubs closed early
No buying rounds
censorship
BST
6 reasons why DORA was introduced
To keep transport safe
To keep people sober
To stop spies
To make Britain hard to bomb
To control the news
To keep military secrets
6 reasons why people didn’t like DORA
News was being controlled
Pubs lost money
Movement was restricted
It was dangerous to walk at night
Inconvenient to move round the country
Daylight was shorter in winter
6 different types of women’s war work
Postal work
Munitions factories
Bus drivers
Police
Land girls
Ambulance driving
6 ways in which women’s roles changed during the war
Change in working patterns
Fashion
Voting
Leisure
Families
Munitions
6 ways in which propaganda helped the war effort
Recruitment
Encourage patriotism
Vilify the enemy
Practical support
Encourage rationing
Appeals to women
6 reasons why people became conscientious objectors
Religion
Poor health
Immoral
Class war
Protecting families
pacifism
6 key facts about conscription
Jan 1916
volunteer numbers were falling
All unmarried men between 18-41
Reserved occupations exempt
Married men up to 51 from May 1916
2.3 mill conscripted
6 ways in which conscientious objectors were treated
Jail
White feathers
Tribunals
Beaten
Abused in the streets
Work camps
6 impacts and deaths and in Scotland
Huge death toll
Grief
Poverty
Injuries
Memorials
Remembrance/poppies
6 reserved occupations
Coastguard
Doctor
Train drivers
Engineers
Ministers
Munitions workers
6 industries that did well during the war
Jute
Coal
Steel
Farming
Fishing
Shipbuilders
6 industries that grew in the 1920s
Airships
Cars
Electricity
Electrical goods
Chemicals
Buses and lorries
6 ways that agriculture and fishing were affected by the war
Demand for wool
Women farmers
High shepherd’s wages
U Boats
Loss of foreign markets
Navy control
6 reasons why women gained the vote
Suffragists
Suffragettes
War work
Changing status of women
Men were getting it
Government attitudes changing
6 facts about the rent strikes
Landlords put up rents by 25%
Women’s groups form in protest
Evictions met with protests
Flour bombs and fruit
People gather outside courts
Strikes elsewhere
6 ways in which voting was changed in 1918
Women over 30
Women must though own property or be married to a property owner
Men over 21
Men over 19 if army
9.2 mill women voters
Electorate triples
6 fact about housing in Scotland at the end of the war
DLG promises homes fit for heroes
Slums cleared
Councils to build new houses
Only 210k/500k built
Aims for indoor sanitation
500k built by 1933
6 key facts about the slave factories
Unhygienic
Dark
Separated families
Branded
Disease
Punishment
