Shell Crisis of 1915
The Shell Crisis of 1915 bought down the government of the United Kingdom which was engaged in the World War I because it was widly preceived that the production of shells for use by the British Army was inadiquate.
After the failure of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the large British Offensive in March 1915. The British Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Sir John French claimed that it failed due to a lack of shells. This lead the Shell Crisis of 1915 which bought down the Liberal British government under the Premiership of Henry Asquith. He formed a new coalition government dominated by Liberals and appoint Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions. It was a recognition that the whole economy would have to be geared for war if the Allies were to prevail on the Western Front.