Choose one essay question from the following:
1. Some historians argue that social factors such as class and race/ethnicity influenced diagnoses of ‘shell shock’ or war neurosis. Outline these arguments. To what extent do you agree that diagnosis of mental breakdown during the war was based on social rather than medical factors?
2. How important was food in the waging of WWI? Use examples from three different countries to illustrate your answer.
3. To what extent did soldiers see themselves and their foe as common victims of war?
4. Using two examples, discuss attitudes to ‘internal enemies’ (e.g.: those interned, Jews and other minorities, foreign-born residents etc) during WWI. In your examples, to what extent did local populations oppose internment?
5. Examining two examples, did exposure to different national and ethnic groups lessen or strengthen racist attitudes and stereotypes.
13. Choosing two examples, discuss the role of transport and communications technology in facilitating a global war in 1914-18.
6. To what extent did developments in weaponry drive innovation in medicine? Use two examples in your answer.
7. Using three examples, to what extent does the history of WWI nursing reveal EITHER changing attitudes towards women’s work?
OR
changing understandings of medicine?
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