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Expert: Hank Hokamp - 10/23/2009
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How did the British gov. try to eliminate opposition from the people who were opposed to World War 1?
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Glad to answer your question, Evelyn:
Attitudes in WORLD WAR I changed for several reasons. The length of the war made the public bored of the war because as the war went on the public started to suffer because of rations and missing their families and friends.
The tactics of the general staff were very poor in some battles and resulted in many deaths, this made the soldiers and the public lose faith in the generals and weren’t as sure that they were going to win the war. People wanted the war to end and their families to return home before they had to fight and go over the top on to no-mans land where it was almost certain death in many battles.
The soldiers were less fit and healthy due to the conditions of the trenches. Many soldiers caught diseases such as trench foot because of the poor conditions. Soldiers were sending letters home to their families about the conditions and the friends they have seen been killed. As the soldiers saw more and more deaths in the trenches they became less willing to fight because they have seen their friends being killed.
The Battle of the Somme changed many of the soldiers and the publics attitude because of the massive failure of the battle. A film was released showing the public the full horrors of the war for the first time. This made the men not wanting fight because they know what to expect and that they would probably die. This battle changed the attitudes more than any of the other battles because this was the battle that was supposed to win the war for Britain and it was the biggest disaster for the British in the war, the British started to feel if the couldn’t win them then with their strongest attack how will they ever win them.
The increasing hardships on the home front made the public feel the affects of the war because of rations and women forced to work to make up the men that are at war. People were missing there families that were fighting at war.
I think that none of these reasons for the war are more important than each other because they all tie in with each other. The hardships on the home front increased because of the length of the war and food and money was running out, the length of the war was because of the bad tactics of the generals not winning enough battles and the Battle of the Somme was also lost because of the bad tactics of the generals wasting soldiers lives and the conditions in the trenches got worse the longer the soldiers were in them so that was because the length of the war.
That's it from here, my friend. Take care and stay safe!
HANK
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