World History › Section V · World War I › Topic V.4
War on the home front
Total war needed factories, farms and families as much as soldiers. This topic follows how Europe's governments took control of economies, how women's work and hunger changed daily life, and how the strain bred dissent, from food riots to the Easter Rising in Dublin.
In this topic
- Civilians on the front line
- Governments take command
- Paying and manning the war
- Women's work
- Worked example: did the war win women the vote?
- Hunger and the blockade
- Propaganda, censorship and dissent
- Worked example: reading a war poem
- Civilians under fire
- The Easter Rising
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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