HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Diphosgene, Disposable And Discretionary Income, Gas Mask
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Great deal of volunteering as well as recruitment in britain. The intense pressure and enthusiasm for joining up was a huge part of the home front. A number of pieces of laws that regulate the home front. Include things that could be put under the category of certain kinds of military law. Punishment for treason, also interference with the war effort (far broader) can mean giving a speech against the war or publishing a pamphlet against the war. Rationing comes in relatively late and is limited, but there are regulations from relatively early in the war. Regulation of things that might be considered ordinary and daily life aspects. Not necessarily in danger but are affected on the home front. Fear of suspicious others goes in other directions too. Internment in wwi, imprisonment based on ethnic background. By the end of 1915 up to 32000 interned, most likely men but included women and children.
