World War 1 Help??

Question

I need help writing my conclusion for my project on How World war 1 effected life in britain. Any ideas? I appreciate it! :D

Answer 1

depends on your argument..and what you want to suggest because their are many many things you can say but in saying them all you can appear to be hypocritical and thats the worst for your essay.. so please give us a peek at your main points or argument.

i.e you can suggest that WW1 made Britain culture over confident and hence WW2 . Alot of historians take that line and link smaller factors like it lead to the massing of military might, weaponry companies, etc

for AGILITY MAN: i m sorry for not explaining myself in more depth and this is partly why i asked for more information. it is hard to present my argument for Britain becoming over confident briefly.

i agree with the points that it did how ever create social resent for war. But Britain at post ww1 does not become more geographical aware in the sense of trying to keep its colonial ties. this to me is a failure to recognize the realities faced in WW1 of the change to a conventional warfare. at the dawn of WW2 you can see the particular extent to which Britain is over confident highlight in south East Asia (Indonesia especially). although not an immediate effect like widows etc . it was a larger social thought passed by the politicians.

nonetheless it was an example to illustrate a line of argument but thank you for your  input

Answer 2

Britain entered the war on 4 August 1914.  The possessor of a small professional army and without a policy of conscription she had urgent need of more men - many, many more men - for training within the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).

The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, France, the United States, Russia, Italy and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_1

Answer 3

i dnt understand wat u mean...am soo sory...i rily wanted 2 help u...hope u understand me

Answer 4

I do know from personal experience that due to the great war there were not enough young men to go round, the terrible attrition of young lives meant that many woman never married as two of my aunt's found out. They could not find a man of marriageable age! You also got a lot of widows whose husbands had been killed, leaving them to bring up a large family on their own.

Answer 5

I disagree with almost everything Newbi said and I second some of the subsequent posts.

1.  WW-1 did NOT make Britain overconfident.  It did the reverse.  It created a country very reluctant to go to war, that felt war was almost never "worth it" and thus planted the seeds for appeasement and a failure to confront Hitler (which then helped make WW-2 happen).

2.  It produced a significant manpower shortage.

3.  It generated tremendous distrust and hatred of elites, a cynicism within society, a group of artists that rather than glorifying war or sacrifice instead made the case that all sacrifice was wasted.

4.  During the war you saw tremendous peer pressure to serve, great sacrifice on the home front (for instance, food rationing, most products not available, it was somehow seen as unpatriotic to wear colorful clothes).

The point about there not being enough men for many women to marry is spot on.  In France after the war, they made it legally possible for women to marry their fiances who had been killed in the war (to avoid the stigma of being an old maid--preferable to be a war widow instead).