The First World War
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- The First World War
- Failures
- Dardenelles campaign 1915
- Churchill was blamed
- Shells crisis 1915
- Lord Kitchener was blamed. Lloyd George took over as minister of munitions
- Battle of the Somme 1916
- Asquith's own son was killed. 20,000 men were lost in the first few hours
- Dardenelles campaign 1915
- Political Impacts
- Women got the vote
- The Liberals split and dissapeared
- The effect on the Liberal Party
- Split
- Half wanted conscription (Lloyd George) other half didn't (Asquith)
- Half supported Lloyd George, others stayed faithful to Asquith
- Asquith was considered a bad war PM and was forced out by Lloyd George
- Lloyd George was eventually forced out by the Tories after a number of scandals
- Split
- The effect on the Liberal Party
- More government intervention needed. Laissez-faire abandoned
- Coalition
- In 1916 Lloyd George forced Asquith out and formed a war time coalition
- This included mainly Liberals and Conservatives and less so Labour
- In 1916 Lloyd George forced Asquith out and formed a war time coalition
- Economic impacts
- War Debt
- Britain didn't want to pay for the war with taxes
- They borrowed lots of money from the US in particular
- Had to raise taxes anyway to pay debt
- Staple industries
- Britain still was not modernising fast enough. Now they didn't need to build so many boats, the economy was declining.
- Trade exports
- Germans had bombed a lot of trade ships
- Economic downturn
- After the post-war-boom the economy dropped dramatically
- Many unemployed
- Many unemployed
- After the post-war-boom the economy dropped dramatically
- War Debt
- The effect on the Liberal Party
- Split
- Half wanted conscription (Lloyd George) other half didn't (Asquith)
- Half supported Lloyd George, others stayed faithful to Asquith
- Asquith was considered a bad war PM and was forced out by Lloyd George
- Lloyd George was eventually forced out by the Tories after a number of scandals
- Split
- Failures
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