Practice question · Select all that apply
Which features made the First World War a "total war"?
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- Three of these describe the mobilisation of whole societies; the fourth describes something that did not exist.
- Ask what happened to the distinction between the front and the home front.
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- A. State direction of industrial production and raw materials
- B. Large-scale entry of women into industry and transport
- C. Conscription, rationing and organised censorship and propaganda
Why
Total war means the whole society is a war resource, which is why the category of the civilian erodes: if factories and food supply decide the outcome, they become targets, and the state acquires powers over labour, speech and consumption that it does not readily give back afterwards.
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