The Home Front WW1
Loss of Freedom
The Treat from Above
Working women
The Economy
The threat from under the sea
The threat from the sea
Government in acting Defence of the realm
Any person suspected of conspireing with the enemy can be arrested
changed to anyone who criticises the war or Government goes to jail
UK worried since man fined £100 for saying Germany will invade Britain and take london
More people better off during the war
Families of soldiers got paid more and shortage of workers meant wages went up and pay rises happened
There were no unemployment and it was good news for once
unfortunatly there was lots of inflation happening and it doubled through out the war.
since the men were fighting there was a shortage of workmen for the factories and farms
It was important to keep the production going
The war demanded all the factories to work harder than ever making munitions, weapons and uniforms.
Because there was a drop in food imports farms were made to work extra hard to make sure there wax not a food shortage.
So women had to step in since there was a shortage in men
The women who worked in farms were essential for the war to go on.
by 1918, all women over the age of 30 were given the vote
The first ever air raid on Brianna happened in January 1915
German zeppelins dropped bombs on great Yarmouth
London was later bombed from the french attacks on German cities.
1500 civilians were killed via zeppelin attacks
8:10 am 16th December 1914
German First High Seas Fleet
unleashed massive bombardment on Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough
1100 shells were fired by Germans- 137 killed and around 600 wounded
German U-boats
A great threat to British trade and war ships
they caused rationing to be introduced in 1917
rationing insured everyone got the same amount of food
Sub warfare back fired on the Germans when a U-boat sunk the RMS Lusitania
1198 people and 128 of those people that died were americains
The USA became Germany's enemy very quickly