Starter quiz
- Complete the sentence. Forcing people to join the armed forces is known as ...
- 'conscription' ✓
- When did the British government introduce conscription for women?
- 1939 ✓
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
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- Select the correct statements.
- Before the war many women's jobs included being in domestic service. ✓
- By 1943, most women remained in jobs including being in domestic service.
- By 1943, between 80-90% of women were employed in essential war work. ✓
- Conscripted women could only do jobs such as cleaning or working in shops.
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- What were some of the roles women could do in the The Auxiliary Territorial Service?
- operate radars ✓
- use weapons
- fight enemies
- tank mechanics ✓
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- What is the correct acronym for The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force?
- ATS
- WAAF ✓
- WRNS
- RAF
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- The WRNS was the women's branch of the ...
- 'Royal Navy ' ✓
Exit quiz
- The Second World War was only fought in Europe.
- True
- False ✓
- What did Britain have at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939?
- a collection of a few small islands
- only land in Europe
- an empire with lands all around the world ✓
- only the land inside the United Kingdom
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- Select the correct statements about who fought joined the British military service during the Second World War.
- 8.5 million men joined military service to fight together. ✓
- The British and those who fought with them were know as the Allied Forces. ✓
- The Allied Forces was a term given to men who lived in England who fought.
- Men joined from countries such as India and Australia. ✓
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- How many Indian men volunteered for service during the Second World War?
- two and half thousand
- two and a half milliion ✓
- two hundred fifty
- two hundred and fifty thousand
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- What does 'ethnic diversity' refer to?
- many people sharing their different backgrounds
- many people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds ✓
- many peple learning different languages
- many people from the same ethnic and cultural backgrounds
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- Approximately how many languages were spoken in ‘The Fourteenth Army’?
- 4
- 24
- 40 ✓
- 14
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Key learning points
- The Second World War was fought across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
- During the war, soldiers from all over the British Empire and Commonwealth fought against Nazi Germany and their allies.
- Before the war, most people in Britain would only rarely travel abroad or meet people from other countries.
- With large numbers of British soldiers mixing with Empire and Commonwealth troops this changed.
- In Britain itself, many people travelled from across the Empire to assist the war effort, bringing ethnic diversity.
Common misconception
Some pupils may think that the fighting in the Second World War only happened in Europe.
Discuss how the fighting was global and happened across three different continents with millions of people worldwide involved.
Keywords
Empire - a group of countries ruled by one country or leader is called an empire
Allied forces - the Allied Forces included Britain and those countries that fought with Britain in WWII
Ethnic diversity - ethnic diversity refers to many people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds
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