Impacts to the British Home Front by Belinda Ho https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017 en-us 2017-11-15 22:51:10 UTC 2023-10-04 11:26:28 UTC hello@padlet.com DORA - curfew at 10pm belinda_ho https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207472735 2017-11-15 23:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207472735 Conscription https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473362 Introduced in January   1916, 
compulsory conscription was introduced in Britain for single men and childless widowers b/w the ages of 18 – 40 




]]> 2017-11-15 23:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473362 Rationing https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473457 - introduced in early 1918
- 4 coupons per week for all people aged 6 and over ]]> 2017-11-15 23:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473457 DORA https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473656 - Curfew at 10pm
- fixed prices of certain goods (e.g. milk, rent)
- reduction in sale and consumption of alcohol

]]> 2017-11-15 23:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473656 Gov https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473770 -   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
 
]]> 2017-11-15 23:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473770 Economy https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473994 5 new departments emerged
- shipping
- labour
- food
- food processing
- national service]]> 2017-11-15 23:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207473994 Munitions https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474182 By the spring of 1915 - Britain was producing 700 shells per day, compared to 250,000 per day being produced by German factories.]]> 2017-11-15 23:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474182 Rationing Part 2 https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474236 - 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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]]> 2017-11-15 23:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474236 Gov https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474290 Britain created a coalition government for the duration of the war.]]> 2017-11-15 23:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474290 dora https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474397 2017-11-15 23:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474397 Social https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474554 Peace movements were formed to oppose the war.]]> 2017-11-15 23:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474554 Propaganda https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474703  - 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 
]]> 2017-11-15 23:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207474703 Increased Work Ethic/effort https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475044 - 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. ]]> 2017-11-15 23:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475044 https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475050 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. ]]> 2017-11-15 23:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475050 Lloyd George's Stance on the home front; https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475395 ' 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']]> 2017-11-15 23:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475395 Food https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475504 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’.]]> 2017-11-15 23:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207475504 Economic https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207476082 Inflation of 200-400% in Germany and Britain due to the cost of war.]]> 2017-11-15 23:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/belinda_ho/agcrc5ka017/wish/207476082