Starter quiz
- The Victoria Cross was awarded for acts of extreme courage.
- True ✓
- False
- How were soldiers rewarded for their contribution to WWI?
- leave from the front
- medals ✓
- more money
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- Prestigious means very important and highly respected.
- True ✓
- False
- Where is Noel Chavasse remembered as a local hero?
- London and Liverpool
- Cambridge and Ipswich
- Manchester and Oxford
- Oxford and Liverpool ✓
- Oxford and London
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- Match the correct date to the event in the life of Noel Chavasse.
- 1884⇔born ✓
- 1908⇔competed in the Olympic Games ✓
- 1916⇔awarded first Victoria Cross ✓
- 1917⇔awarded second Victoria Cross ✓
- 1918⇔died ✓
- Captain Noel Chavasse is remembered on a special memorial ______.
- 'coin' ✓
Exit quiz
- How did civilians contribute to the home front in WWI?
- working in the police ✓
- working as land girls ✓
- working as vicars ✓
- working in factories ✓
- fighting in battles
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- During WWI, there was a serious food ______ on the home front.
- 'shortage ' ✓
- The Women's ______ Army played an important role in providing more food for Britain.
- 'land ' ✓
- Why was working in munitions factories dangerous?
- Workers were based underground.
- There was no water to drink.
- Workers had to handle explosives. ✓
- The factory buildings were poorly built.
- There were lots of fumes in the factories. ✓
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- Who did the new law in 1918 give the right to vote to?
- All women
- Women who were married to someone who owned property ✓
- Women who had a job
- Women who owned a property ✓
- Men over the age of 21 ✓
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- Choose the correct option below to complete the statement: 'Before the First World War the Suffragists and Suffragettes had __________ in their attempts to win women the vote.'
- failed ✓
- succeeded
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Key learning points
- While men were sent to the front, the war also had an impact on those who stayed behind.
- The First World War was the first total war: the activities of both soldiers and civilians contributed to it.
- There were shortages of food, more so in the cities, where it was harder for people to grow their own food.
- Women had to work in the fields and the factories to replace the men who had left for the front.
- This led to a big change in the way that women were treated and helped some women win the vote in 1918.
Common misconception
The war was only fought by soldiers and won on battlefields.
Civilians at home did much work to support the war effort and this was known as 'the Home Front'.
Keywords
Home front - civilians contributed to the war effort at home in Britain, and this became known as 'the Home Front'
Shortage - a shortage is when there is not enough of something, for example, there were food shortages in WWI
Factories - factories are large buildings in which different goods are made
Vote - a vote gives people a choice as to who they want to represent them in the government
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