Luke Ellett

8/2/2019 Luke Ellett

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Womenmakingguns andhelping asnurses on

the frontline

Man nothelping hiscountry

Menserving inthe army

and navy

YOU is underlinedand bold


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DORA-defence of the realm act. The government took overcivilian life.

Bombing-German warships and zeppelins bombed Britain.Hundreds were killed.

Recruitment- the government put up posters, speeches andrecruitment offices.

Shortages-the government had to ration food in Britain androunds on the front line

Conscription-the government were running low on men so itwas compulsory for young men to join up

Causalities-millions were killed by the end the most comingfrom the battle of the Somme


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In the first year of thewar half a million men

joined up but as the warcarried on men realised

that war wasnt fun.Some film footagewasnt of the battlefields in France but intraining grounds to

make it look like they arewinning.


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True lots people got involved, women worked in the factories andmen went to the front but some people like the conchies didntagree with the war and refused to sign up when the conscriptionlaw was passed.


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When many of the men when to France to fight Germany, Britainhad to replace the work force. Women took over the some jobspeople thought they would never do like making weapons, workingin coal mines and working in the police. Some historians believe it

was their contribution that won them the vote.


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Although the war might not of been won without it, conscription wasopposed by a large number of MPs and a groups of people whothought the war was politically wrong or against their religion. Thesewere called conscientious objectors or conchies. These men when

conscription was introduced, refused to sign up and were treatedbadly some of them sentenced to death.


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Millions of people gotinvolved in the war fromwomen making weaponsand men fighting on the front

and without their effortswomen might of never gotthe vote and moreimportantly, our life's wouldbe very different.Unfortunately many peopleopposed the war like thebreak away group ofsuffragettes lead by SylviaPankhurst who criticised thewar instead of helping andthe Conchies who refusedto join the war effort.

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