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Flashcards by halfad92107, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| how did people in the 1914 get messages to the people? | Posters were designed to get very powerful messages across |
| how did white propaganda poster effect people? | played on peoples feelings making them think that if you were a young man,'joining the army' was the right thing to do. |
| how did black propaganda effect people? | tried to create hatred towards the Germans. |
| why did the government wanted people hating Germany? | they hoped that if people hated Germany and its people they were more likely to agree with the war and join the fight. |
| what was the result of the propaganda's? | by January 1916, a total of 2.5 million men had agreed to fight. |
| the British government thought that fighting along sides and friends and neighbours rather than strangers would encourage people to join up.Were they right? | yes; rival towns competed with each other to prove how patriotic they were and formed 'pals battalions'. Brothers,cousins,friends and workmates enlisted together. |
| why did the government made a conscription solution? | the flood of volunteers slowed to a trickle.with thousands dead and many more returned home disabled.The government needed more men to join the army. |
| what is meant by conscription solution? | that any men aged between 18 and 41 could be forced to join the army. |
| what are conscientious objectors? | men who refused to join the army because they believed that the war was always wrong. |
| give another name for conscientious objectors? | conchies , there were about 16,000 men |
| what are the reasons that made people refuse to fight? | _political beliefs(saw that the war is a way of Britain increasing its empire) _religious beliefs _Absolutists |
| what is meant by absolutists? | people who refused to help Britain win the war. Around 1500 were sent to prison for the entire war.some were even sentenced to death, but executions never took place. |
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