Britain and war 1&2 2000-word essay. 6-3-2019 Some combinations are excluded. You must NOT overlap material in the two essays. 1. Why was World War Two in Britain remembered as the peoples war? (not to be done with question 2) 2. How has the memory of World War Two in Britain changed over time? (not to be done with question 1, 10 or 12) 3. To what extent, and how, did British policy makers think of Britain as a global power, 1945-56? 4. Was National Service popular? 5. Did Britains policy towards the European Economic Community, 1957-1973, demonstrate a change in thinking about Britains global role? 6. What was the impact of the idea of thermonuclear war on British culture? You may confine your answer to a particular period of time if you wish. (not to be done with question 7) 7. What was the purpose of British planning in the event of nuclear war, and what does it suggest about ideas of Britains global role? (not to be done with question 6) 8. Why, and with what implications, did David French argue that British counterinsurgency operations were nasty, not nice? 9. Why were arguments about British decline, and/or British crisis, so widespread in the 1970s? 10. What does the Falklands war tell us about the changing relationship between the military and society in Britain? (not to be done with question 2 or 12) 11. What did the decision to use military force in Iraq tell us about British policy-makers perceptions of Britains world role? 12. How and why has the remembrance of war changed since the Falklands war? (not to be done with question 10 or question 2) 13. To what extent has war been important to Britains national identity? You may confine your answer to a particular period of time. 14. Has the end of Empire affected either British politics or British culture, or both, and if so, how? 15. What was controversial about news reporting of the 1982 Falklands war? 16. Creative writing option: Either: a) Imagine that there had been a thermonuclear war in Britain in 1970. What would have happened? OR: b) Imagine that you were any person in or connected to the military at any point in Britain since 1945. What was it like? a) Based upon your knowledge of planning scenarios, home defence plans and of Britains nuclear doctrines, imagine that Britain had experienced a nuclear strike, launched by the Soviet Union, in 1970. Write an account of the transition to war and of the aftermath of the strike. You may write the account in a journalistic style, or as a creative piece of writing, or as a historian. Your work will be graded according to the persuasiveness of your analysis of events. The important feature is that your imaginings are based upon your critical evaluation of what would have happened according to British planning. It is up to you to decide whether it would have worked or not. b) Based on your knowledge of the British military at any point in the post-1945 period, imagine that you were in or connected to the military (i.e. serviceman or woman, spouse or child of military person, journalist etc.) and write an account of your experiences.
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