Transcript World War One The Homefront

World War One
The Homefront and the War Effort
CHC2D8
Ms. Gluskin
Day 1 – Did the government rise to the challenge of preparing for war?
Will Patrick Chan rise to the challenge of winning the gold medal
in figure skating?
CHALLENGES
Problems and Solutions
• Now we know about the battles going on in
Europe.
• What was the government doing back home in
Canada to organize the war effort, get Canada
ready (prepared) for war?
– What problems would the government face?
– What solutions would they come up with?
Causes and consequences
Getting Soldiers to Volunteer
Communicate Through Propaganda
Why is this a successful poster / billboard?
1917-18 poster
Canadian War Museum, Canadian Wartime Propaganda, N.d.,
Vocabulary (36-37)
• homefront (noun) = what is happening at home during the war
– The homefront was just as important to the war as the battles in
Europe.
• front (noun) = a place where battles are fought
– In Europe there was a western front (Belgium, France), an eastern
front (with Russia), and a homefront.
• challenge (noun) = a problem that has to be solved
– It is a challenge to take Canadian history when you are so new to
Canada. The course is challenging (adjective).
• training (noun) = getting people ready for something
– Olympic athletes do their training for many years before they become
gold medalists. They are well trained (adjective).
Vocabulary, con’t
• recruits (noun) = volunteers for the war
– Many new recruits were needed as soldiers died in battles
in Europe. The government had to recruit (verb) men who
were willing to fight.
• enlist (verb) = to volunteer for something
– At the beginning of the war more soldiers enlisted than at
the end. All of the soldiers were enlisted (adjective) men.
• income tax (noun) = a % of people’s income that goes to the
government
– Canadians pay income tax so that the government can use
that money to pay for services such as health care for the
people of Canada.
Vocabulary, con’t
• Victory Bonds (noun) = money loaned to the
government to help pay for the war effort
– The government used advertising to make Canadians want
to buy Victory Bonds during the war.
• loan (noun) = money given to someone that will be
repaid with interest
– A bank will give people a loan if they want to buy a new
car, however, they will have to pay it back with interest.
• propaganda (see page 41) (noun) = spreading carefully
selected information, rumours and ideas
– During the war the government used propaganda posters
to get Canadians to support the war.
Propaganda Techniques
• Propaganda posters are designed to deliver a
specific message to a specific audience. Some
techniques (strategies) used to create
propaganda posters include:
– colour and symbols (e.g., red might symbolize blood)
– appeal to emotions (e.g., fear, sense of adventure,
sense of duty)
– images that are important to an audience (e.g.,
commitment to family, church, or country)
– bold (very strong) slogans (little phrases that are easy
to remember)
• As a result, you may see some of the following
ideas and images in World War I propaganda
posters:
– emotional images
– threats to family, church, or country
– the Union Jack (Britain’s flag)
– symbols of France, such as a soldier in French
uniform
En-words
• Enjoy (to enter into joy)
• Enlist
– To volunteer to join the army
• (to enter the list of citizens in the army)
Three Challenges
• Page 40-41
• Fill in the left-hand column.
– What is the challenge?
• Describe it briefly
• Training example:
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Disorganized
missing equipment
Equipment that didn’t work
Short (3 months)
Report Card Comments
• A comment is your opinion of why or why not
the Canadian government did a good job in
preparing for the war.
– Bad comment:
• The government did a good job.
– Good comment:
• I gave the government an A because it prepared
Canadians for war by …
Day 2
CONSCRIPTION
Vocabulary 42-43, 54-55
• conscription = force people to go to war (see
page 42)
• reluctant = not sure about doing something
• language barrier
• excused = not required to do something
• pacifism = a belief that it is wrong to go to war
Conscription Crisis
• Is it ever right to force citizens to go to war?
Historical Perspectives
• Perspectives = views, ways of seeing things
• Not everyone in Canada had the same view on
conscription.
– Some thought it was a good idea
– Some thought it was a bad idea
Canadian War Museum, Canadian Wartime Propaganda, First World War, N.d.,
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/propaganda/poster5_e.shtml (Feb. 14, 2014).
Journal Entry #2
• Explain how different people in Canada had
different views/opinions on conscription.
– Given these different views, do you think the
government was right to introduce conscription?
Answer both questions. Length: ½ to ¾ page,
double spaced.