7/30/2019 16 Mark Q the Main Reason That Men Volunteered for the
Armed Forces Was Government Propaganda
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Source D A drawing of the execution of Red Cross
volunteer, Edith Cavell, in Belgium, 1915. She was
tried as a spy and executed by firing squad.
Source B A British cartoon
published in 1914
Source A From a modern world history textbook,
published in 2010
The War Propaganda Bureau also commissioned
films, which were shown all over the country. If
there was no cinema in a town, then the film
would be projected from a lorry onto any
available large wall.
Source C From a British newspaper, WWI
To the north of Ypres our progress has been continued,
especially on our left. We have taken six quick-firers, two
bomb-throwers, and much material; and made several
hundred prisoners, including several officers.
The losses of the enemy were extremely high. At a single
point on the front, in the proximity of the canal we
counted more than six hundred German dead.On the heights of the
Meuse, on the front Les Eparges-St
Remy-Calonne trench, we have continued to gain
ground, about one kilometre, and have inflicted on the
enemy very severe losses.
Source F From a modern history textbook on WWI,
published in 2004
The glamour of a uniform and the chance for
adventure attracted a good number of young
men especially since everybody expected the
war to be over by Christmas 1914. In the
meantime, men who volunteered together were
promised that they could fight together in what
became known as Pals battalions.
Source E Extract from a government report
on censorship, October 1915
There is no compulsory submission bynewspapers of any class of
matter for
censorship. A newspaper commits no
offence if it never submits anything to
the censors at all. The offence consists
in publishing something which can be
proved in a criminal trial to offend
against DORA.
The main reason that men
volunteered for the armed forces
was government propaganda
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An answer that supportsor disagrees with the
hypothesis. 7-8 marks if
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the reliability.
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The answer may be
unbalanced. Details
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the reliability.
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focus on propaganda.
Usefulness should be
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