World War I

Herbert Asquith PM 1908-1916

David Lloyd George

Germany

• Triple Alliance
• Schlieffen Plan

Britain at War

• Royal Navy
• Lord Kitchener
• British Expeditionary Force
• The Marne-September 1914
• Machine Gun
• Western Front

War Aims?

• Hatred
• Recruitment

Gallipoli 1915

• Churchill
• "soft underbelly of Europe"
• military disaster

Politics

First Coalition 1915-1916

• Conservative/Liberal/Labor
• Asquith PM
• Lloyd George--munitions
• Labor in government
• Government direction of economy
• Conscription 1916

Disillusionment

• The Somme 1916
• War Poets
• Rupert Brooke
• War Sonnets

"Onward Christian Soldiers

Onward Without Fear

With Our Great Commanders

Safely in the Rear"

Irish Troops

Sir Roger Casement

Easter Uprising 1916

• Declaration of Independence
• Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
• Casement diaries

Second Coalition 1916-1918

• Asquith vs. Lloyd George
• Asquith's resignation
• Lloyd George PM
• Liberals Split
• Tory + Labour + LG Liberals vs.
• Asquith Liberals

1917

Western Front

• American Entry
• Woodrow Wilson
• Submarine Warfare

Eastern Front

• Soviet Revolution Nov. 1917

Middle East

• Dismantling of Ottoman Empire
• Indian troops
• India Gate, New Delhi
• An imperial war

1918

• Final German push
• German revolution
• Armistice--November (11/11/11)

 Deaths

• Shellshock
• Syphillis

Disillusionment

• Kipling: "If any question why we died/Tell them, because our fathers lied." 

Destruction of Liberal Party: split

Labour in Government

Growth of Government

Drinking

Women at Work

The queue

Patriotism

National anthem monarchy

Why were so many people in Britain willing to fight and die for their country during the Great War, and send their family members to do the same?