1914 Outbreak of WW1 -DORA (censorship and propaganda)

1915 Lloyd George becomes minister of Munitions

1915 Zeppelin air raids begin/German naval raid on scarbrough

1916 Military services Act introduces conscription for all unmarried men aged
18-41.

1916 Battle of Somme = heavy casualties = public begin to turn against the war
Gotha IV bombers begin air raids.

1916 Women used as VAD’S (Nurses in the armed forces)

1916 Lloyd George becomes PM of a Coalition government

1917 German u boats have been sinking food ships – voluntary rationing
Introduced.

1917 WAAC – women take army office jobs, WRNS – same jobs in the navy,

1918 Representation of the peoples Act = Women over 30 can vote

WRAf – Women carry out office jobs in the RAF. Compulsorily rationing.

1920’S Women known as flappers wear short skirts and smoke and drink in public

1928 All women over 21 can vote

1939 Start of WW2 – Conscription introduced again as well as evacuation of

School children

1940 Government introduces essential work order (EPA Essential powers Act)
Rationing
1940-1 The Blitz- second wave of evacuation

1941 Women conscripted into the labour force

1942 The Beveridge report recommended setting up a welfare state (NHS etc)

1944-5 V1 and V2 bombing raids nicknamed the doodlebug because of the noise
it made. This inflicts heavy damage and casualties. Further evacuation.
 Factors influencing change

The role of government in recruitment, censorship, rationing etc

The role of the media in keeping up morale (propaganda)

Changes in Industry = govt control of industry, women employed, trade

unions.

Keywords

Anderson Shelter
Auxiliary
Barrage balloons
Blackout
Blitzkrieg/Blitz
Canaries
Censorship
Chaperone
Civil defence
Civilian
Conscientious objector
Conscription
Desertion
Dig for victory
DORA
Enlist
Evacuation
Flappers
Home front
Hun
Jingoism
Munitions
Order of the white feather
Propaganda
Suffrage
Suffragettes
Suffragists
Squalor
Tribunal
U boats
Welfare state
Zeppelins

Key people
Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
Emmeline Pankhurst (and the names of her daughters)
Millicent Fawcett
Lord Kitchener
Ernest Bevin
William Beveridge
Princess/Queen Mary