Impact of Ww1 on Britain

The First World War impacted significantly on the homefronts of the participating nations in many different social, political and economic areas. There was a widespread restructuring of primary industry with a large orientation towards militarism. There was massive political change where new systems of power were introduced that gave governments a range of new powers including the control over industry. The civilian population had severe restrictions placed upon their rights and liberties due to the necessities that total war required.

Unlike other countries fighting in the war, Australia did not enforce conscription. Its armed forces relied completely on volunteers and at first there had been more volunteers than the army could accept. However by mid-1916, when news of casualties of the front began to reach home, support for the war declined sharply. In 1916, William Morris Hughes returned from inspecting the Western Front and was convinced that Australia should introduce conscription for the war effort. This led society to become divided into two major groups, the pro conscriptionists and anti conscriptionists.

Consequently over 8 million people were directly killed in fighting and many more millions were injured or unaccounted for. It’s no surprise therefore that the impacts of the war were so strong

Between 1914 and 1918, over nine million soldiers and five civilians were killed and seven million men disabled permanently (Mintz). This tragic phenomenon is known as World War I. Leaving the world with $186 billion direct costs and $251 billion indirect costs, this World War is known to be the most expensive war in history (Mintz). These four years also impacted the civilians not involved in the war severely. Women were given a chance to have a job in the workforce, children had to work in order to feed themselves, and an influenza epidemic was brought into communities (Mintz and Wotherspoon). World War I soon turned into a “group effort”; it turned into a Total War. Initially starting off as an encouraging and positive experience, World War I eventually turned into a brutal, selfish, and chaotic battle, and left millions of

The Government did five main things, which can be shown in the Matignon Agreements: it created the right to strike (and there would be no retribution against strikers), collective bargaining, a law that ordered 12 days of paid Annual leaves for workers, a limited work time per week

In human terms, the war had been a disaster for Australia, as it was for all countries involved. About 65% of those who served overseas were killed or wounded, the highest casualty rate among the allies. Thousands were hospitalised on their return to Australia and some never left the rehabilitation hospitals. From a population of fewer than five million, 300,000 men enlisted, of which over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 were wounded, gassed or taken prisoner. Society was also left deeply scarred by the war. Living standards had fallen and communities were divided over conscription issue. Many people never recovered from having lost a family member or a friend.

World War I did bring devastation to many counties but, there was some positive outcomes of the war. For example, during the war, soldiers had advancements in weaponry which was used to defeat their enemies (Kelly). These advancements in weaponry allowed soldiers to defend their country in a more efficient way.

World War 1 had many positive and negative impacts on the U.S. society. This is because directly following the war something called “the progressive era” began. During this time working conditions were getting better and so were women's rights.

of that. With an enormous 30 million casualties, this war was just the beginning of modern

World War One was a big and horrible thing. It was the war where Britain,France, Russia, Italy, and eventually the US fought against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. World War One ended up killing over 38 million people from all around the world. It was a terrible thing and it had ruined people, businesses, and even countries themselves. There were many reasons behind World War One and there were also many different impacts it had on America.

Conscription was first introduced when Prime Minister Borden went to the House of Commons to announce the Military Service Act or the law for Conscription which makes all men from ages 20-45 enroll into the war overseas, it then became a law later on August 19, 1917. Conscription was a very debatable idea and very hard for people to understand. Actually, during the first World War, the government was very surprised when they were required to add conscription to the war in the fighting year of 1917. This was evident as around 330,000 people were volunteering for the war in between 1914-1915. Prime Minister Borden thought it would be unnecessary to add conscription until they were forced to implement the Military Service Act in 1917 due to lack of volunteers (Granatstein, 2014). However this was not something that the government would do just because they wanted to, instead, they were forced due to the few amount of volunteers, also they had a divided country between the English and French Canadians. Secondly, conscription was bad for the government to introduce as it created an alienating government as adding conscription put the French Canadians against their government, no government would do something unnecessarily if it had them losing votes. The creation of the law had all of the French members of parliament disagreeing while the rest of the English speaking members of Parliament agreed (Granatstein, 2014). The Prime Minister in World War Two did

They were very strict and if you were found cheating you could be sent to jail or fined a large fee. Overall rationing had a huge impact on the lives of the people on the home front as they had to grow their own food in their gardens. The BBC shows the impact on the people when

The period after World War I was known as the Interwar period. During this time nations such as France, the United States, Russia, and even Germany made changes in their armed forces. The changes included the reduction of force structure to technological improvements in weaponry. Britain became a leader among nations in military, particularly Army or ground innovations during the interwar years. Their ingenuity led to other nations taking all or some of the ideas to improve upon or add to their army. However, Britain's army was unable to achieve greatness from their innovations in armored warfare during the Inter-War period because of political constraints and an inability to foresee their future needs.

The Great War involved most of the adult population either 'head on' or discretely. On average, 6 million men served in Britain's armed forces during the course of the war. Many millions of innocent civilians had their lives affects to the overall changes, both economic and social that the war caused or added to. The impact of the war varied greatly between the different regions of the sommunity. There were many differences and considerations ; these being gender and social class, so it is had to dinstinguish and measure the war's exact impact on people's attitudes, beliefs and values.

Subdued similarities are seen in Germany and Britain’s food scarcity during the Frist World War. Both Germany and Britain civilian population suffered the consequences of a long-term war aided by new arterial weaponry through the drastic decrease of food supply. Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917, which targeted merchant ships and therefore effected the importation of food to British civilians. In 1918, Britain’s government introduced voluntary rationing after their noticeable shortages of food which was a partial result of the infliction of German submarines. Similarly, Germany experienced a shortfall of food importation partly due to the blockades that were formed by the Allied forces. Therefore, Germany had to resort