Revising your K/U

You should look at THIS site which gives excellent coverage of all the Knowledge and Understanding contain in the Standard Grade History course.

You should also look HERE for extra information.

HOMEWORK – Enquiry Skills Questions

This WORD document is a series of Enquiry Skills questions based on the Scottish and British topic.
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ENQUIRY SKILLS HOMEWORK SHEETS

The consequences of World War 1 for Germany (Powerpoint)

This file is another Powerpoint covering the consequences of World War One for Germany.
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The consequences of World War One for Germany.

Weimar Revision – Gustav Stresemann (Powerpoint)

This powerpoint will help you with your revision of the Weimar Republic and the contribution of Gustav Stresemann to the ‘Golden Age’ of the short lived Weimar Republic.
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Gustav Stresemann and the Weimar Republic

Here is an excellent link into a site about Stresemann if you want more detail. Click HERE.

The Nazis and Unemployment (Powerpoint)

This file is a powerpoint that we have used in class. One or two of you said you wanted another chance to go over the file.
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The Nazis and Unemployment

History Exam Guide

This file is an excellent guide to the History exams. It gives good examples of types of questions and advice on how to answer them.
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Exam Guide (click)

History Podcast

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1. Why did World War One breakout?
2. The Treaty of Versailes
3 The League of Nations
4. Hitler’s Rise to power
5. Nazi Germany

After the prelim…time to get serious about the May exam

REVISION – Nazi persecution of the Jews

Hitler attempted to make life so unpleasant for Jews in Germany that they would emigrate. The campaign started on 1st April, 1933, when a one-day boycott of Jewish-owned shops took place. Members of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) picketed the shops to ensure the boycott was successful.
The hostility of towards Jews increased in Germany. This was reflected in the decision by many shops and restaurants not to serve the Jewish population. Placards saying “Jews not admitted” and “Jews enter this place at their own risk” began to appear all over Germany. In some parts of the country Jews were banned from public parks, swimming-pools and public transport.
Germans were also encouraged not to use Jewish doctors and lawyers. Jewish civil servants, teachers and those employed by the mass media were sacked. Members of the SA put pressure on people not to buy goods produced by Jewish companies. For example, the Ullstein Press, the largest publisher of newspapers, books and magazines in Germany, was forced to sell the company to the NSDAP in 1934 after the actions of the SA had made it impossible for them to make a profit.
Many Jewish people now left the country. This included a large number of scientists including Albert Einstein. Most of these scientists went to live in Britain and the United States and later played an important role in developing technology that was used against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

The number of Jews emigrating increased after the passing of the Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race in 1935. Under this new law Jews could no longer be citizens of Germany. It was also made illegal for Jews to marry Aryans.
The pressure on Jews to leave Germany intensified. Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich organized a new programme designed to encourage Jews to emigrate. Crystal Night took place on 9th-10th November, 1938. Presented as a spontaneous reaction of the German people to the news that a German diplomat had been murdered by a young Jewish refugee in Paris, the whole event was in fact organized by the NSDAP.

During Crystal Night over 7,500 Jewish shops were destroyed and 400 synagogues were burnt down. Ninety-one Jews were killed and an estimated 20,000 were sent to concentration camps. Up until this time these camps had been mainly for political prisoners. The only people who were punished for the crimes committed on Crystal Night were members of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) who had raped Jewish women (they had broken the Nuremberg Laws on sexual intercourse between Aryans and Jews).

After Crystal Night the numbers of Jews wishing to leave Germany increased dramatically. It has been calculated that between 1933 and 1939, approximately half the Jewish population of Germany (250,000) left the country. This included several Jewish scientists who were to play an important role in the fight against fascism during the war. A higher number of Jews would have left but anti-Semitism was not restricted to Germany and many countries were reluctant to take them.
The universities were purged of Jews. Over a thousand people lost their jobs. Rust justified his actions by claiming that: “We must have a new Aryan generation at the universities, or else we will lose the future.”
By the end of 1941 over 500,000 Jews in Poland and Russia had been killed by the Schutz Staffeinel (SS). At the Wannsee Conference held in January 1942, Nazi leaders discussed what became known as the Final Solution. It was eventually decided to make the extermination of the Jews a systematically organized operation. After this date extermination camps were established in the east that had the capacity to kill large numbers including Belzec (15,000 a day), Sobibor (20,000), Treblinka (25,000) and Majdanek (25,000).

It has been estimated that between 1942 and 1945 a total of 18 million were sent to extermination camps. Of these, historians have estimated that between five and eleven million were killed.

Railways (Revision 5)

Railways In Scotland
Plans for a railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow began soon after the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. However, Parliament did not give permission for the first early railway in Scotland until 1838. This impressive railway took four years to build and was opened in 1842. The Edinburgh & Glasgow was fairly level but this meant building large viaducts and three long tunnels. At Glasgow a cable-worked incline was necessary to reach Glasgow Station. In 1865 the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway was taken over by the North British Railway.

The growth of railways started later in Scotland than England. The first major line, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, was not opened until in 1842. The Caledonian Railway was established in 1845. Beginning at Carlisle, it went to Glasgow via Edinburgh. Another of its lines went from Carstairs to Edinburgh. In 1848 the Caledonian Railway provided the first through service from Scotland to London. All the locomotives used on the line were painted in what became known as caledonian blue