Key Issue: How important was the role of the Royal Navy during World War I

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Key Issue How important was the role of the
Royal Navy during World War I

• Lesson Objectives
• Understand the roles the Royal Navy played during
  the First World war
• Know the chronology of sea battles during WWI.
• Develop source analysis skills and exam
  technique.
• To know about the German use of U-boats and their
  levels of success
• Begin to realise the importance of the Navy to
  Britains war effort
• Outcomes by the end of the lesson you will
• Have studied primary sources to develop your
  understanding of the War at sea.
• Be able to name minor sea battles discuss the
  debate around the battle of Jutland.
• Be able to answer a Paper 1 GCSE source
  question.

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What was the role of the Royal Navy in World War
I?
Task 2 Using Page 103 add to your spider diagram
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Minor Sea Battles

• Heligoland - August 1914
• Small battle off the coast of Chile -
  - November 1914
• Falkland Islands 8 December 1914
• Dogger Bank - January 1915

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The Battle of Jutland

• Comparing sources

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Comparing sources

• FACTS OF THE SEA BATTLE
• Admiral Beatty fights the whole German fleet
• Compensation for our heavy loss
• Admiralty counts 18 German ships sunk against our
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• Jutland gave no cheer to England. If not a
  defeat, it was a disastrous victory. The German
  High Seas Fleet had struck down 117,025 tons of
  British warships. The British Grand Fleet had
  sunk about 61,180 tons of German naval power.
  German armour had stood up better German gunner
  had shown itself more accurate.

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How successful was Germanys use of submarine
warfare?

• Task Read page 104 study the sources below

Source In April 1917, Admiral Jellicoe claimed
that there was only 6 weeks of food supply left
in Britain
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Homework Answer the following Exam style question

• How useful is Source C to an historian studying
  the effect of the war at sea on Britain during
  the First World War?
• Use Source C and your own knowledge to answer the
  question.
• (8 marks)

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Source C A German cartoon showing Britain in its
splendid isolation