the suffragettes

The suffraggetes were fed up with being ignored. They decided to take there campaign directly to the politicians.
The suffragettes would shout out there slogan ‘votes for woman’ while the politician was speaking, such actions were very unusual and gained alot of publicity. However they knew that in time they would need new tactics if they were to be successfull.
How and why did they the campaign become more violent?
. The prime minster promised to change the law and then didn’t do it, he abandoned the plan
Playing cat and mouse
Suffraaggetes violence continued more ended up in prison and more went on hunger strike. The government wanted to retake control. They introduced the temporary dischange for ill health act. This meant they could release prisoners who went on hunger strike then rearrest them as soon as they were better and started eating again.
The nickname of this was cat and mouse Cat mouse
Government suffraggetes.
The suffragettes stopped there campaign when the war started they did not think it was right that there husbands suns brothers fathers were off fighting.
Many woman help with the war affort, there were two main results of this;
1) More woman gained experience of life outside the home the money they earned gave them more endependance.
The fact that many young men were away fighting left the woman going out with with friends more all these factors made woman think differently about there lives.
2) There efforts incouraged many men to think differently about the right woman should enjoy after the war. Mr osqtih the priminster had been and ‘enemy ‘ of the suffragettes before the war he said woman helped in the most effected way when the war is over there special claim should be heard and not be denied.
Woman done many jobs such as;
. ticket collecting
.Nurses.
. on a farm lending a hand
.Making Bombs
.As mechanics

World war..
Type of gas
Effect
Chlorine
Immediatly causes chocking and strips away the lining in the lungs.
Phosgene
Suffered minor discomfort
Mustard gas
It attacked the surface of the skin causes burning, swelling to the eyes blindeness and chocking.

Casualties..
Year
Casualties
Deaths
1915
12,792
307
1916
6,698
1123
1917
52,452
11796
1918
113,796
2673

The aim of both sides on the western front was to try and make a break through however trench defences were very strong and neither side had the weapon to make the break through.
The british invented the trench crossing machine its a secret code word was the water tank the nickname was the ‘ tank stuck’.
It was the first used at the battle of the somme although there were problems general haig odered one thousand more to be built

The main benefits were;
1) They could break through defences.
2) They had a physchological impact on the germans one german was heard to say the devil is coming.
They did however have some big problems like;
1) They broke down very easily, of 430 used in the last days of war only a handful survived.
2) They were very slow with a maxium speed this meant they were an easy target.
Trench life is often remembered through the illness that men suffered from top to toe.
A new disease was ‘shell-shock’ today we might call it post tromastic strees men lost there nerve it was causes by the horrors of trench warfare it could be sparked by any loud noise or ossociation of trench warfare it was not very well understood many suffers were lost to said to be cowards.

Life in the trenches..
Trench foot
In ideal circumstances a trench would be about two and a half metres deep with wooden duck boards along the bottom to keep feet out of the mud and water which collected there. When feet were left in water for long periods of time they can swell inside the boot cut off circulation and rot. Frostbite could also cut off circulation toes were often lost in this way and sometimes even feet this was known as ‘trench foot!’
Strict measures were taken to avoid this men had to rub a water proofing substance, Whale oil into their feet and soilders would be punished if they didn’t. This was necessary because some men tried to get trench-foot even at the cost of loosing there toes or maybe even there feet as a way of getting a ‘blighty one’
The lack of hygiene also led to lice. These are insects which feed of the blood of their hosts their bites cause intense itching which leads to blisters,boils and trench fever.