The Effect of World War One on Domestic Life

The Effect of World War One on Domestic Life

World War One started in 1914. There were many reasons for World War

One but the main reason was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on

July 28th in Sarajevo. Everyone thinks of the war as the fighting that

went on in France but the war not only affected the soldiers who were

fighting it affected the people at home as well who were forced to

carry on with the normality of there everyday lives.

When World War One started in 1914 there was an excitement to join in

This photo is biased it shows that many men wanting to join the army.

This photo is Primary evidence so it is a good source but Photos only

show you a small part, they don't Show you what is going on a few

meters down the road. There may be a hundred people waiting to join

the army but there may be a hundred people down the road protesting

against the war. The photo can also be altered, people can be

airbrushed in added or if a man was looking sad he could be taken out.

Also they could of hired people to be in the photograph so it looks to

people that there is a mad rush and excitement to sign all been

staged, this would of made people think that war is a good thing and

if that many men where going to sign up why shouldn't they. The photo

could have been posed for to make it look like everyone was happy to

go to war but I believe that they all want to be in the war because

they believe it is a brave and noble thing. This was how the war was

portrayed to young naïve men.

There were posters put up to influence war and to remind young men to

join. These posters usually said your country needs you or something

that made peopl...

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... were unable to work and many did not return, so the women continued

with there work and they enjoyed it. In 1919 women were given the

right to start working in any job in the civil service as well as any

other job. Also more nurse surgeries were set up this gave another job

opportunity to women. Women also were now allowed to stand for

election.

Women were allowed to be freer now, they smoked and drank in public

and became known as flappers who wore short skirts, shorter than in

the war and they went to dances where alcohol was being drunk. There

skirts got shorter and many of there clothes more revealing. They were

allowed to do a lot more things and they no longer had to go out with

an escort.

The war was over and all the threat from the other countries gone but

there was lots more of changes yet to come.