Home front
What Home front means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Home front
Exam boards and our study guides word this term in slightly different ways. Learn the version your board uses.
Check what you remember
Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Home front in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: AQA
The domestic setting where the war effort and subsequent defeats exacerbated existing socio-economic divides.
Became organised, with government direction of labour, munitions work, voluntary aid and propaganda.
Topics that use Home front
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – The collapse of Liberal Italy and Mussolini’s Rise to Power, 1915–1922 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 2 Changes in weaponry and the role of the people (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Civilian roles
- Economic instability
- Failure of liberal democracy
- Fiume
- Impact of new weapons on tactics
- mutilated victory
- Political violence
- Rise of mass movements
Using Home front in the exam
Check the command word and mark scheme for your exact question. After comparing your explanation with the reference, use the term in an answer on the linked topic. This practice does not predict an exam mark.
Practise History questions
Create a free account to answer exam-style questions on this topic and get feedback on your answers.
A week of Premium from your first lesson · Then the free plan continues · No card, no charge