HIST 3420 Lecture 6: quizlet notes BRT 1
12 Feb 2019
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Which party s government tried to improve social conditions at the beginnin of the. Parliament act of 1911 (the lords power was limited, they lost its rights to question financial legislation passed in commons, no longer prevent legislation) Quakers (but in 1916 the government forced men to join the army whether they wanted to or not. A few men, mainly quakers, refused to fight. For the first time, a government accepted the idea that men had the right to refuse to fight if they believed fighting to be wrong. ) Name 2 new military inventions/ weapons used towards the end of wwi. Wilfred owen, the war is an act against god and man. (as the most famous of them, wilfred owen, wrote shortly before he himself died on the battlefield, "my subject is war, and the pity of war. " The poems written by young poet- soldiers influenced public opinion, persuading many that the war had been an act against.
