HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gas Mask, Ramsay Macdonald, Rupert Brooke
Document Summary
David lloyd george 1863-1945, leads wartime coalition between 1916 and 1922. Shellshock and mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf 1925. June 28, 1914 with assassination of archduke franz ferdinand in sarajevo; system of entangled alliances draw britain into war; germany, and neutrality of belgium. No notion of future devastation and length of war; victorians see as war of duty, patriotism and result in national cleansing. Celebrated as war of duty and patriotism, fairly easy in initial stages of the war to get volunteers; between august 1914 and december 1914, on average, 300,000 men enlisted voluntarily each month. Horatio herbert kitchener - first general in charge of early wwi battles (lord kitchener 1850-1916) Hero of the boer war, great war hero, proper person to rally the british population to the cause of war (poster, "you are the man i want") Kitchener was not a great tactician; asquith, pm at the time; he is a great poster and not a great man.
