Ch27+891-894

= Questions about “The Home Front” during W.W.I. (Ch.27) pp.891-895 =

1. List six characteristics of “Total War” that made it different from any wars that had been fought before. 891

2. It is an ironic fact that the war pushed all these industrial-capitalist countries toward socialism. Explain why this happened and give examples of these socialistic characteristics as they appeared in Germany and England 891 and 892

3. What change in leadership occurred in Germany in 1917? 891

4. How did the Auxiliary Service Law impact the lives of men and women in Germany? 891-2

5. How did total war impact European society? a. unions? 892 b. women? 892 c. overall social equality? 893

6. Trace the change in political support for the war effort as it changed over time. 894-895 a. 1914-1915 b. spring of 1916 c. 1917

7. Despite the strikes, protests, assassinations, starvation and losses of life which all of the countries experienced by 1917, which of the WWI belligerents was the first country to collapse? 895

8. Who was the fierce and determined French leader that jailed strikers and journalists who wavered about the aims of the war? 894

9. In spring 1916 the English faced a major crisis on the home front. What violent rebellion had to be put down? 894