World War 1 in France?

Question

I know that in Britain, druing world war 1, that children were evacuated to the countryside, bombing took place and air-raid shelters were built, and also that rationing was introduced. Did all these things happen in France aswell during the war?

Answer 1

I think that a lot of evacuations in WWI was done because of the better food situation on the country than in the city.
Some evacuation was done for fear of the bombing by Zeppelins or Gotha bombers (thought few the effect was more considerable psychological than by damage).

By the way the first bombing of a city by Zeppelins happened on the 25th of august on Antwerp (Belgium) in the hope that the Belgium army would surrender when they knew that the civilians were bombed. It simply gave the opposite effect.

In Belgium there was also food rationing since the Germans stole a lot of food to be send to Germany. Only the food aid coming from the USA avoided that the Belgian people under German occupation starved. The people of Belgium are still thankfull to Hoover for the aid he organised.

Answer 2

You have described incidents that occurred in Britain in World War 2, not World War 1. There were German zeppelin raids on Britain during the First World War, but the damage (or deaths) caused by these raids was not enough to evacuate the children to the countryside. Certainly there were air-raid shelters in major cities in France in World War 2, but Germans did not bomb France as long as it did England, so there were probably far less children evacuated to the countryside.

Answer 3

To Bob j.
Britain was bomb by the Germans first with the Zeppelins and later when the zeppelins became to vulnerable to the fighter plains and AA gun the airplane stared to take over.
Airplanes like the Gotha


There where some smaller evacuations in Paris but there where more a the period that the German army was nearly at the gates of Paris also when Paris was under fire of the Paris gun of the Germans but the evacuations weren't on such a big scale as in WW II

Answer 4

I think I can answer that (correctly hopefully) -France lost approximately 1,7 million people (military and civilians combined) -The first battle took place in Marne which was and still is located in north eastern France -I guess they had the same tricolore flag (there was the Lorraine cross in the middle of the flag but that was at WW2) -Clemenceau represented France during the treaty but the people were not satisfied by the results. -France lost Alsace-Lorraine from Germany but got it back by the signing of The Treaty of Versailles. Don't take my states 100% accurate. Do some research on the internet for more info. I hope that some key words I mentioned helped. Good luck!

Answer 5

The war on the home front was much more severe in European countries during WWI than in North American. This was known as "total war" as the European countries' economies ran solely to support the war effort.

If children were evacuated in France during WWI, it certainly isn't spoken of much that I know about. What I do know is that the occupied section of France and the trench lines created a refugee situation, where whole families were displaced.

Total War resulted from the early belief that the war would be short and failure to provide for a long one. Food rationing was introduced in most European countries, rations were very slim in some, particularly the Central Powers as they were affected by the naval blockade. Austria in particular was starving. France wasn't really in as hard a position, in fact some say that in Paris, you'd be hard-pressed to tell there was even a war going on. Life as normal...

Hope this helps a bit.

Answer 6

are you mentaly challenged in some way?
there were no bombing in britain durring WWI .. there were hardly any planes ..let alone anything capable of dropping bombs
where do you get this crap from?

--- what do you knwo.. i stand corrected. Still however these were completely insignificant air raids nothing compared to WWII
there were NO evacations of london at any time during WWI