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Date Posted: 17:13:31 04/23/03 Wed
Author: John D Clare
Subject: AQA WWI
In reply to: James 's message, "Britain in WWI focus" on 15:06:24 04/23/03 Wed

I take it you are talking about Option Y: Britain in the First World War.
(If you are not - if you mean the 'Causes of WWI' element of Option V - then ignore this reply and email me back.)
As far as I can tell from the exemplar materials, AQA paper 1 has two sections. The first section - do two from three - is on international relations (Causes WWI, Versailles, LoN, road to WWII, Cold War etc). My advice is to revise the FACTUAL CONTENT very thoroughly for these questions.
The second section on AQA paper 1 (options Y:WWI and Z:WWII) is different in kind. As far as I can tell from the exemplar material, it appears that all the sub-questions are going to be sourcework questions.
IF this is so, then I think it will affect how you structure your revision. Whereas on options V-X you are going to be asked historical questions and need to know your stuff to answer them, on sourcework questions - instead of knowing EVERY fact/idea - you will only need to know sufficient facts/ideas to inspire and support your analysis/answers of the sourcework questions.

The syllabus sets two questions:
1. What was the part played by Britain in the defeat of Germany? (BEF, trenches, western front (Battle of Somme), new weapons (tanks and planes), sea blockade and Jutland, Empire troops, end of the war).
2. How did the war change life in Britain? (changing attitudes at home, censorship and propaganda, women, recruitment, rationing and the effects of submarine warfare).
I would restrict your memory-learning to the items mentioned in the syllabus. Make sure you are FAMILIAR with what is going on, and that you have a portfolio of meaningful facts that you can trot out about each element.
THEN, when you do the exam, if the questions are more about the sources than the events, answer the questions using your general familiarity and factual knowledge to inform your analysis.
Does this make sense???
PS Also, have you seen David Ferriby's book Modern World History for AQA: Core pp 94-120 (to get it, see my webpage <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/gcse_modernworld_revisionbooks.htm).">http://www.johndclare.net/gcse_modernworld_revisionbooks.htm).</a> I think you will find that this tells you enough to answer anything you are likely to meet in the exam.

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