Enquiry: which World War changed life for British people the most? - Part One: The First World War - Rastrick High School
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Enquiry: which World War changed life for British people the most? Part One: The First World War
What key issues & ideas should I include?
Recruitment & Conscription
TASK: use the handout ‘Home Front Info’ to
research the following areas of the Home
• The voluntary phase (to 1916) – how Front in Britain.
were men persuaded to join? How Make sure you write your answers in full
many? sentences.
• Conscription (from 1916) – why was it
introduced (several reasons)? How
did different people react to it?
• What about men who stayed at
home?
Rationing Women
• When and why was it introduced • How did women help with
(mention voluntary and recruitment?
compulsory)? • How did women help with industry?
• What was rationed? • What was the difference between
• What happened to people who working class and middle class
didn’t stick to it? women?
Always include SPED in your notes!
How far did life change in Britain during the First World War? Was the change dramatic? Was it the same for everyone? Was the change positive or negative? Was the change temporary or permanent? Was there any continuity? Which aspect of the Home Front in the First World War affected people the most? What criteria might you use to make a judgement? • Age • Sex • Social status (class)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Read the poem quietly to Between the crosses, row on row,
yourself. That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Can you explain the message of
the poem, especially the
We are the dead: Short days ago,
following:
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
• ‘between the crosses, row on
In Flanders fields!
row’, That mark our place
• ‘take up our quarrel with the
foe’ Take up our quarrel with the foe
• ‘If ye break faith with us who To you, from failing hands, we throw
die, we shall not sleep’ The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
How should we remember the First World
War?
The cenotaph and the
Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. Both established
around 1920 to
commemorate the dead
of the First World War.
Are they fitting
memorials?
How should we remember the First World
War?
In November 1914
888,246 ceramic poppies
were ‘planted’ outside
the Tower of London -
one for each British
Empire soldier who died
in the First World War.
Is this a more suitable
memorial for the
twentieth century?
How should we remember the First World War? Design your own memorial for the First World War: • Do you want it to commemorate the whole war or just one aspect / group of people? • What form could it take – a statue, a 3-D model, a mural, a collage, a poem or something else? • What could you include on the memorial – a person or people / object(s) / plants or flowers? • What text might you include e.g. an extract from a poem, a religious text, an inspiring thought?
1. What was the name of the German leader at the beginning of the First World War?
1. Kaiser Wilhelm II
2. Name the three countries in the Triple Entente.
1. Britain, France & Russia
3. Where was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
1. Sarajevo, Bosnia
4. What was the name of the German plan to avoid a war on two fronts?
1. Schlieffen Plan
5. The invasion of which country made Britain declare war on Germany?
1. Belgium
6. Name two things the soldiers did during the Christmas Truce.
1. Swapped gifts (e.g. chocolate, cigarettes), played football, sang carols, erected Xmas trees, buried the dead
7. Who commanded the British Army at the Battle of the Somme?
1. Sir Douglas Haig
8. How many soldiers were killed on the first day of the battle?
1. 20,000 approx.
9. Give any two reasons why the attack failed on the first day
1. Poor planning, poor artillery (aim & duds), barbed wire not cut, Germans in dugouts, forewarning due to stopping of barrage or detonation of mines
10. The surrender of which country allowed Germany to launch its final attack in 1918?
1. Russia
11. This attack is known as what?
1. Ludendorff / Spring Offensive or Kaiserslacht!
12. What was the name given to the period of food shortages in Germany during 1916-17?
1. Turnip winter
13. What was the name of the disciplinary procedure where soldiers were tied to a fixed object - a fence or a gun carriage for example?
1. Field Punishment No. 1
14. What was the name of the law introduced in 1914 that gave the government special powers during wartime?
1. DORA (Defence of the Realm Act)
15. Give one way life for a soldier on the Western Front might be better than at home.
1. Better diet, entertainment, see new countries
16. In what year did the government introduce conscription?
1. 1916
17. In 1918 compulsory rationing was introduced. Name two things that were rationed.
1. Sugar, butter, meat, beer
18. What was the name of the airships that bombed London and other cities in the early years of the war?
1. Zeppelins
19. Name two health problems that female munitions workers suffered from.
1. Breathing difficulties, rashes, yellow skin, digestion problems, blood poisoning, brain damage.
20. At what time and on what date did the First World War end?
1. 11am 11th November 1918You can also read
