History

• Give evidence for two causes of the liberal reforms

  Seb Rowntree and Charles Booth reports (1902 and 1903) found that huge number of people are below the poverty line. 1/3 of army volunteers are unfit for service as a result of Malnutrition

  Liberal Party worried about new competition of newly founded Labour Party (1900) Introduced acts such as the Old Pensions act (1908) and Health Insurance act (1911)
• When did the Liberal Reforms take place 


  1906-1912
• Name acts during the Liberal Reforms

  1906 Free School meal act

  National Insurance for unemployment (1911)

  Children and Young persons act for legal rights (1908)
• Who were the Big three

  George Clemenceau (FRANCE)

  Woodrow Wilson (USA)

  David Lloyd George (BRITAIN)
• When was the treaty of Versailles made?


  June 1919
• What did France, Britain, America want from the Treaty of Versailles

  France - Revenge reperations

  USA - should be punished but not severly, based on Wilson 14 points

  Britain - Punished but more than USA and the quite anti german
• How was Germany punished from the TOV

  Military - restricted to 100,000 men

  Terrritorial - Made to give back Alsace Lorrain to France

  Economic - reperations ( £6,600 million )

  War guilt - blamed for the war (impacted morale for germany )
• How long did WW1 last for

  1914-1918
• What is social Darwinism

  The idea that the Aryan race was superior
• What does Lebensraum mean?

  The need for Germany to expand the nation
• When was the reichstag fire 


  27 Feb 1933
• How did the Reichstag fire help htiler consolidate his power 


  He blamed the communists which made everyone despise them
• 3 reasons how Hitler gained popularity

  1929 Great depression which destroyed germanies economy and unemployment rose to 6 million, made people dislike communism and look for a better political party (Nazis)

  Failure of Democracy anger and bitterness of ww1 grew as democracy failed and the Weimar goverment lost the war

  Hitler promised the scrap the TOV made them popular
• How did the Nazis use its police state

  Gestapo - torture anyone who dilsiked the nazis, no uniforms, imprisom you without trial.

  SS - get rid of threats to germany there were 240,000 of them

  Legal system - Nazi judges, Nazis could pass any law
• Give examples of how Nazis used propaganda and censorship during ww2

  FILM - all films included 45 minute newsreel of nazi triumphs and news, Films like 'Eternal Jew' and 'Triumph of the Will' attacked jews and enemies like communists portraying the Nazi ideology

  Radio - 70% of homes had a radio, foreign radio was banned, played all of hitlers speeches on loudspeaker
• What was the Blitzkreig?


  Surpirse air attack which combined extremely rapid advances into enmy territory. Made to cause panic and chaos.
• When was Operation Dynamo Launched?

  27 may - 4 June 1940
• What was Operation dynamo?


  aim to resuce over 300,000 troops from dunkirk
• what does militarism mean?


  The belief that a country should hae a strong military capability and be prepared to use it
• Who made the Schlieffen plan

  Alfred Von schlieffen
• When was the Schlieffen plan proposed 


  1905
• What did the schlieffen plan suggest 


  involved an attack on france to make them immobile for any type of war by flanking them through belgium getting rid of france would get rid of a war on two fronts
• What are two key features of the Scglieffen plan?


  Time dependant they had 6 weeks to defeat the french before russia got involved relied on russia's mobilisation to be slow

  Violate belgian and Dutch neutrality
• What does imperialism mean?


  The desire to acquire colonies and create and empire
• Define nationalism?

  Where people are extremely proud of their nation
• How could alliance system resulst in war?


  if 2 countries fell out with eachother and one attacked the other it could draw in other countries
• How could Imperialsim resulst in war?


  not all places want an empire what if 2 countries wanted the same country
• How could Militarism resulst in war?


  More and more guns are being produced in the military so people would be more likely to use them
• How could Nationalism resulst in war?


  minorites might want independance they might get this by violence
• When did the Balkan war take place?


  1912-1913
• What was the munich beer hall putsch and when did it occur 


  8th November Hitler decided to burst in a meeting of politicians and forced them to rebel agaisnt the Weimar Republic
• What did some of the organisers do to hitler on the plan of the beer hall putsch 


  4th October 1923 some organisers called it off
• When was Hitler arrested?


  11 november 1923 after he fled from his march when police were there
• When was the Arch duke Franz Ferdinand assinated?


  June 1914
• Which country backed the assination

  Serbia backed the black hand terrorist group
• When did austria Hungary declare war ?

  28 July 1914 on Serbia
• Who did Austria Hungary ask support from?


  Austria Hungary asked support from Germany
• Who did Serbia ask support from?


  Serbia asked Russia for support
• When did German declare war on france?


  3rd August 1914
• When did hitler invade poland 


  September 1939