Changing Attitudes towards the First World War.
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Changing Attitudes towards the First World War. At the start of the war the British public was very positive towards the war and thought that it was heroic. The government gave people false hopes and told the public false things like telling the public it would be a quick and easy war and "it will be over by Christmas". People were dancing in the streets and thousands of young men were enlisting to fight. This attitude to the war soon changed as people grew bored of it. .After a few months and the war wasn't going as people expected and loads of people had died less people were enlisting and in March 1916 people were forced to enlist. As the war went on people were only aloud rations of food because of the import ships being destroyed and food supplies were running low. As the soldiers got bored with the...

