Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0
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Warfare and British Society, c1250–present
Factors driving change in warfare, c1250–present
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Overview
The three factors behind change, turning points and continuity, government decisions on recruitment, state wealth, Cardwell's reforms, weapons technology, armour and communications, attitudes in 1914 and to casualties, the pace of change, factors combining, medieval command, newspapers, army size, industrialisation, nuclear deterrence, the soldier's standing, Agincourt and the Somme compared, and the decline of the knight.
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Which three key factors are used to explain change in warfare across the whole period?
What is meant by a turning point in the development of warfare?
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Which three key factors are used to explain change in warfare across the whole period?
Model answer
Governments and individuals, science, technology and communications, and attitudes in society.
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What is meant by a turning point in the development of warfare?
Model answer
A development after which fighting was clearly different from before, such as the arrival of gunpowder weapons or the machine gun.
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What is meant by continuity in the story of warfare?
Model answer
Features that stayed much the same over long periods, such as the need for foot soldiers to take and hold ground.
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Give one example of a government decision that changed the way British soldiers were recruited.
Model answer
The introduction of compulsory military service in 1916, which ended the reliance on volunteers.
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How did the wealth and taxing power of the state affect the armies a country could put in the field?
Model answer
A government able to raise steady taxes could pay a permanent professional army instead of relying on part-time obligation.
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Name the individual whose reforms did most to professionalise the Victorian army.
Model answer
Edward Cardwell, who was Secretary of State for War.
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