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Inflation of 200-400% in Germany and Britain due to the cost of war.

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Britain imposed a fixed price for staple goods (e.g milk, bread, eggs,
etc.)
- 60% of energy value in Britain’s diet derived from imported ‘foodstuffs’.

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- an increased effort resulted in an improved result for attrition warfare on the Western Front. E.g. 10 pm curfew and restrictions on alcohol sale meant workers were in a better and more efficient state for work each morning.
- introduced the munitions of war act 1915 and the ministry of labor act. in 1916 relocating workers into war related positions.
- " Man-power, it is true, was indispensable, and generalship will always, whatever the conditions, have a vital part to play." Lloyd George.

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Lloyd George's Stance on the home front; 

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Lloyd George's Stance on the home front; 

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' A perfectly democratic state has... the right to commandeer every resource, every power, life, limb, wealth and everything else, for the interest of the state'

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April 1917, wheat stocks had fallen to 10 days' worth of supplies. Situation was saved as a result of the bread-economy campaign and successful anti-submarine activity.

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- Lots of propaganda on the home front to enforce enlistment

-       Man power in the home country Is compromised to due to enlistment, with men leaving the work force

-       Significant because without the power of production on the home front, you wont win the war of attrition

-       By 1914,  750 000 men enlisted

-       “The Huns”,

-       Evil Germany had brutally and savagely pushed its giant military machine into peaceful neutral Belgium

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Peace movements were formed to oppose the war.

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- prices rose so that between July 1914 and June 1918 the cost of living for an unskilled worker rose by approximately 81%.
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Britain created a coalition government for the duration of the war.

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By the spring of 1915 - Britain was producing 700 shells per day, compared to 250,000 per day being produced by German factories.

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5 new departments emerged
- shipping
- labour
- food
- food processing
- national service

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-   December 1916 Lord Devonport, food controller, asked people to restrict their food intake voluntarily--> 115g of sugar, 1.8kg bread, 1.1kg meat per week

-       1916 Gov introduced daylight savings in the hope of increasing number of daylight working hours

-       By April 1917 wheat stocks had fallen to 100 days worth of supplied.

-       Curfew- 10pm with lights out --> ‘measures to protect the people’
-       1917--> kite flying, whistling and feeding bread to animals became illegal--> threat of spies, can be used as a target

-       DORA also gave Gov the power to buy goods at rock bottom prices and to requisition all forms of transport

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- Curfew at 10pm
- fixed prices of certain goods (e.g. milk, rent)
- reduction in sale and consumption of alcohol

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- introduced in early 1918
- 4 coupons per week for all people aged 6 and over

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Introduced in January   1916,

compulsory conscription was introduced in Britain for single men and childless widowers b/w the ages of 18 – 40