Key Question 5- maintaining morale during war

• Campaigns 


  Ministry for agriculture introduced the dig for victory campaign at the start of war
• Campaigns 


  ‘Dig for victory‘- aimed to ensure people could grow their own food to supplement rationed goods
• Campaigns 


  ‘dig for victory’- started to grow food in gardens/allotments and kept pigs, cows, hens and rabbits
• Campaigns 


  ‘dig for victory’- in 1943 3.5 allotments were owned in Britain
• Campaigns 


  ‘dig for victory’- over a million tonnes of vegetables were produced
• Campaigns 


  Spitfire fund- scheme led by Lord Beaverbrook
• Campaigns 


  Spitfire fund- encouraged people to fund money towards spitfire planes and made people feel like part of the war effort
• Role of radio and cinema

  Radio- most had access to radios that could be used to share information and messages to the British public
• Role of radio and cinema 


  Radio- broadcast spoke of key successes spread positive messages and preached about bravery of people during the blitz
• Role of radio and cinema 


  radio- became known in peoples houses as a form of comfort
• Role of radio and cinema 


  Radio- ‘it’s a man again’ and ‘music while you work’ became very popular
• Role of radio and cinema

  Cinema- used to promote war effort and raise peoples morale
• Role of radio and cinema 


  cinema- ministry of information produced short films about coping with problems created by war
• Role of radio and cinema

  radio and cinema was a way to ensure morale did not fail
• Churchill as a war leader

  enrolled the ‘bulldog’ spirit that was need for Britain to win the war
• Churchill as a war leader

  he was an outstanding leader as he delivered stirring speeches and visited areas that were bombed during the blitz for moral support
• Churchill as war leader

  he was always positive and talked about no surrender or giving up
• Churchill as war leader 


  he worked closely to Roosevelt (USA) and was able to secure money and support to win the war
• Churchill as war leader 


  He symbolised defiance, fighting spirit and stubborn refusal to surrender
• Propaganda and censorship 


  New ministry of information set up propaganda and censorship at the beginning of war as it was vital to keep up morale so the public can support the war
• Propaganda and censorship 


  propaganda posters were used to give people information on the war and provided advice eg. how to grow vegetables
• Propaganda and censorship 


  propaganda also encouraged men to sign up to fight and for women to join the war effort (munition factories and land army)
• Propaganda and censorship 


  censorship was to control what people saw and hide the truth on the reality of war
• Propaganda and censorship

  radios, newspapers, magazines, cinema and news were all censored
• Propaganda and censorship

  military disasters were made to sound less serious to avoid damaging morale- successes also exaggerated