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how many glaswegians were enlisted in the first two days of the war |
6,000 |
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how did Kitchener target scottish men to sign up? |
'scots are great soldiers and always have been for generations' |
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by the end of 1914, what perecentage of the scottish male labour force had signed up? |
24% |
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what did one Dundee advertiser publish to encourage scots to sign up? |
'we must not get behind the rose, the leek and the shamrock' this spread patriotic pride |
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what 3 problems did scots face in the trenches |
trench foot rats lice in their kilts |
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when was the battle of loos |
sep 1915 |
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how many scots took part in the battle of loos |
30,000 |
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how many deaths did the black watch suffer in the first hour of the battle of loos |
680 |
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how many casualties in the battle of loos were scottish |
1 in 3 |
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give an example from the battle of loos that shows scottish bravery |
Piper Laidlaw, continued pipeing even after being shot to boost morale of the troops was awarded the vicrtoria cross |
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when was the battle of the somme |
somme- summer July-November 1916 |
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why three infantries took part in the battle of the somme |
9th, 15th and 51st highland |
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how many officers did the 15th battalion loose in the battle of the somme |
180 |
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how many causalties did the 51st highland battalion loose in the battle of the somme and where |
3500 High Wood |
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give an example of scottish leadership at the battle of the somme what was he know as? |
General Douglas Haig butcher of the somme |
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give an example of a success by the 51st highland division |
they amounted a sucessful attack at Beaumount Hamel in 1918 |
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give an example of a scottish woman in the war give 5 facts about her |
Mhari Chisholm medical team Belguim front line danergous, in the line of german shells resucued injured pilots from the battlefeild given victoria cross gasses and send home |
belguim danger pilots vitoria gas |
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before 1911 how many women worked in the industry at cyldeside |
under 4,000 |
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at the end of the war how many women worked in munuitions at clydeside |
31,500 |
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give an example of censorship |
Glasgow herald |
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give an example of DORA controling drinking |
Coggan's Bar Glasgow resitricted opening hours to keep munitions production high |
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give an example of DORA controlling food porduction |
Highland deer forests were seized for food production creating tensions from land owners |
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how many attended an anti war demostraiton, and where was it held? |
5,000 Glasgow not a just war |
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give and example of a group who opposed the war where did they meet what did they think? |
independent labour party Leith ,Glasgow they shouldn't have to fight for a country that did not support them working men's lives would not change for the better as a result of the war |
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give an example of an appeal for exemption from the war |
Thomas Keir Edinburgh Upholster would loose business and family live in hardship daisble foot undiagnosed appliacation dismissed 'war is a national importance' |
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give an example of a consicentiuos objector |
Gavin Bellsen journalist for Glasgow Herald |
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who was arrested under DORA and what for? |
John Mclean, sor anit conscription speeches
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where were there rent strikes |
Govan |
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why were there rent strikes in Govan |
huge increase of population due to growth in industry increase in demand saw rents rise ppor famililes were eveicted and woem were bulllied into eviction as landlords took advantgage of their men being away |
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what was formed as a result of the rent strikes initially |
Glasgow women's housing association |
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give an example of a demonstration as a result of the rent rises |
Glasgow George Square |
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what did the rent strikes show? |
that women did have the power to take on authority |
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how many scots died in WW2 |
74,000 |
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where is the soctland war memorial , who was it designed by |
edinburgh castle Sir Robert Laimer |
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give two reactions to the edinburgh war memorial |
too big glorified the war have hope, they didn't die in vain |
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how many names are on the edinburgh war memorial |
148,000 |
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what was post war emmigration described as? |
the flood |
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what percentage of the scottish population had left between 1921-1931 |
8% |
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give two push factors for post war emmigration |
heavy industries closed after the war mass unemployment in 1920s |
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give two pull factors for post war emmigration |
the empire settlement act 1922 gave subsadies so scots emmigrating to US- eg free land to farm on many emmigrated to canda and then crossed the border to USA to find industiral work |
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give an impact of post war emmigration on scotland |
scotland couldn't regenerate industry after the war |
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