The Act promoted national unity. All political parties joined together, and the Socialists fell into line as it was the popular view at the time. The divide between political parties and the difference in class no longer existed. However this doesn’t last for long as the problems on the Home front increased. Germany were unable to manage their home front effectively during the war.
In order to fight a world war, Britain had to proceed with a mobilization of its resources in order to win the war. There are important factors that should be considered during a total war. They were allied with the French and the Russians against the Germans which suffered a war on two fronts. Every belligerent therefore, saw the war coming which became inevitable at a certain point. This resulted in massive mobilization and extensive war planning from all countries.
Tensions had been building up in Europe for decades through militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, ideology, assassination, significant individuals and crisis, and these tensions had reach such a point that an event was needed to break these tensions. This was the assassination of the Archduke. Here, I am going to explain in detail what actually happened during the ‘Great War’ which caused billions of deaths. By 1914, the six powerful countries in Europe had been divided by two opposing unions. They consisted of Britain, Russia and France against Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (who later switched sides).
Society: The most significant impact of volunteering and conscription is on society, because society is represented on a large scale, where volunteering and conscription had a long term affect and a short term affect. As more and more men had started to leave, Britain found itself with low production levels everywhere in the industry and a lot of changes had to be made in order to maintain production levels in Britain firstly as stated by history web: ‘’the Defense of the Realm Act gave the British Government almost dictatorial powers over all aspect of British society’’, especially concerning industrial production and labor allocation. To the society this meant a number of things, firstly it meant that there were shortages of all produce, most importantly food. Consequently, rationing of bread, tea, sugar and meat was introduced in 1918. That consequently also meant that now the British society was becoming healthier because they do not spend their money on unhealthy foods and instead are rationed to a limited amount, this had also meant that life became harder and prices were rising according to Arthur
How significant was The Great War in explaining the revolutions of 1917? The Great War to a certain significance contributed to the revolutions of 1917 due to the fact that the war was the major trigger for both of the revolutions in the year 1917,also the aftermath of the war questioned the leadership in Russia, The Great war had shown the incompetence of the Tsar and the Provisional Government, both failed to meet Russia’s growing needs. The Great War had also worsened the already existing issues within Russia at this time for example, political unrest, social and economic problems Russia had already faced during this period of 1917. The Great War strongly contributed towards the February Revolution as this event in history was the key event which had really broke the camels back for the revolution to happen. The war had affected the trigger of the revolution by the weak army with a large lack of ammunition for their weapons, therefore they were unable to fight and fend for themselves, therefore Russia had to depend on the Allies such as Great Britain and France had to help them, also the tactics the Russians had used were very old fashioned therefore it had seemed they weren’t ready for war at all.
During the occupation of British in India, they made a lot of profits due to the abundant resources in India. After British left, a civil war broke out in India. This was a fight between the Hindus and Muslims of India which ultimately led to the creation of India and Pakistan as two separate countries. I believe the British Imperialism hurt India and its people. The British Imperialism hurt Indian and its people because the British using India’s resources and living off the profits that were gained from there.
By examining the various forms of media and literature that were produced during the period of the Great War the extent to which censorship and propaganda will become clearly evident. Media Media during the Great War was without a doubt heavily censored. The various forms of media available at the time were being used in order to showcase the heroic feats of the brave soldiers fighting for their nations on the warfront. Many of the newspaper articles printed came directly from war correspondents posted in the countries where the battles were occurring. The British government in particular, heavily censored the material that most posted by the journalists and then even before it went to print.
In their eyes introducing prohibition could decrease the levels of prostitution, gambling and crime in the cities .The war provided prohibitionists with more ammunition to support their cause. They argued that as the government was calling for maximum agriculture production, so how could they justify the wasteful use of grains for beer and spirits? The prohibition lobby was also able to harness anti-German wartime hostility as the majority of brewers were of German origin, and that their trade organisation helped finance the National German-American Alliance which was a potent source for the Kaiser. Alcohol was also said to undermine military discipline and the virtue of young soldiers. Although world war one played a significant factor in giving ammunition to prohibitionists such as the patriotic feeling, and the fact that the government had begun to interfere
Overall, numbers have increased over the last 50 years, however, by 2000, the trend line started to become level. One reason for an increase of natural disasters could be because of much stronger hurricanes due to global warming, or because of there has been an increase in media coverage. There has actually been an increase in hydro metrological hazards (floods and windstorms) for the last 20 years, however, geo-physical hazards have remained the more or less the same. The total number of people reported killed by natural disasters has decreased since 1960, but there was a slight rise since 2003, however, between 1924 and 1936, the number of people reported dead was at its highest (0.8 millions of people). On the other hand, the total number of people reported affected by natural disasters has increased from 0, to 250 millions over the last 50 years.
Moreover, as Britain was one of the major power of the WWI, the effects on both of their men and arms were not recovered from the WWI. This also led Chamberlain hesitant to take part for a large war at this time. Thus, making an appeasement with the Germans was the best solution for them to be recovered and prepared later in the future because rather than fighting a big war against advanced army with unprepared-no men army, they would fight a war with recovered army even if the opponents might grow more. ! Back again to 1919, the Treaty of Versailles made conclusions to the German’s territorial, armed forces, colonies, preparations and indemnity, and the war guilt issues.