Crimean War and Answer Essay Example
JAN 09
(a) Study Sources 1, 2 and 3.
How far do Sources 2 and 3 challenge the view given in Source 1 that the officers commanding the British Army in the Crimean War were unfit for the position?
Explain your answer, using the evidence of Sources 1, 2 and 3.
Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that popular enthusiasm for the Empire declined as a result of the Second Boer War?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge
JAN 10
Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that it was largely as a result of the work of Florence Nightingale that medical care for British soldiers improved during the Crimean War?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
OR
(b) (ii) Use Sources 7, 8 and 9 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view presented in Source 9 that critics of the Second Boer War ‘were wrong to say that the concentration camps were part of the deliberate use of the “methods of barbarism”’ (Source 9, lines 48–50)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 7, 8 and 9 and your own knowledge.
JAN 11
Question 1
Answer part (a) and then answer EITHER part (b) (i) OR part (b) (ii). (a) Study Sources 1, 2 and 3.
How far do Sources 1 and 2 challenge the impression of the Charge of the Light Brigade given in Source 3?
Explain your answer, using the evidence of Sources 1, 2 and 3.
EITHER
*(b) (i) Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that the Second Boer War resulted in imperialism being ‘discredited’ (Source 4, line 20)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
JAN 12
EITHER
*(b) (i) Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that, as a result of the Crimean War, Lord Cardigan ‘became a national hero’ (Source 6, line 32)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
JAN 13
(a) Study Sources 1, 2 and 3.
How far do Sources 2 and 3 challenge the view given in Source 1 that the officers commanding the British Army in the Crimean War were unfit for the position?
Explain your answer, using the evidence of Sources 1, 2 and 3.
Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that popular enthusiasm for the Empire declined as a result of the Second Boer War?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge
JAN 10
Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that it was largely as a result of the work of Florence Nightingale that medical care for British soldiers improved during the Crimean War?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
OR
(b) (ii) Use Sources 7, 8 and 9 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view presented in Source 9 that critics of the Second Boer War ‘were wrong to say that the concentration camps were part of the deliberate use of the “methods of barbarism”’ (Source 9, lines 48–50)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 7, 8 and 9 and your own knowledge.
JAN 11
Question 1
Answer part (a) and then answer EITHER part (b) (i) OR part (b) (ii). (a) Study Sources 1, 2 and 3.
How far do Sources 1 and 2 challenge the impression of the Charge of the Light Brigade given in Source 3?
Explain your answer, using the evidence of Sources 1, 2 and 3.
EITHER
*(b) (i) Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that the Second Boer War resulted in imperialism being ‘discredited’ (Source 4, line 20)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
JAN 12
EITHER
*(b) (i) Use Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
Do you agree with the view that, as a result of the Crimean War, Lord Cardigan ‘became a national hero’ (Source 6, line 32)?
Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge.
JAN 13