What was DORA in ww1?
In 1914, the government passed the Defence of the Realm Act which came to be known as DORA. It gave the government unprecedented and wide-ranging powers to control many aspects of peoples daily lives. It allowed it to seize any land or building it needed and to take over any industries that were important to the war effort. It allowed the government to control what the public knew about the was through censorship. The government immediatley took control of the coal industry so that the mines could be run to support the war effort rather than for the private profit of the owners.
