The Shell Crisis of 1915 was a shortage of artillery shells on the front lines of World War I, which largely contributed to weakening public appreciation of the government of the United Kingdom because it was widely perceived that the production of artillery shells for use by the British Army was inadequate. Along the resignation of Admiral Fisher after the failed naval attack on the Dardanelles, the Shell Crisis was a significant factor in the fall of the Liberal Government, in favour of a coalition, and in the rise to power of the new Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George, who would replace Asquith as Prime Minister in the political crisis of December 1916.
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