History Y9

• Transatlantic slave trade


  e.g. slave trade triangle, the middle passage
• The triangle


  Europe to Africa to west indies and north America
• Middle passage


  • Between Africa and north America, brutal, cramped, crowded, handcuffed
• Resistance to slavery


  • Passive (annoying)
  • Active (physical)
• Arguments for and against slavery (i.e. abolition)


  • FOR slavery - made fortunes, without economy would be damaged
  • AGAINST slavery - low mortality rate, inhumane
• Alliances in WWI


  • Triple alliance - Germany, Italy and Hungary
  • Triple entente - England, France and Germany
• Causes of the war


  • The 'spark'/trigger - Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
  • Alliances - entente/ alliance
  • Militarism - biggest army and navy
  • Imperialism - more land + empires
  • Nationalism - independence and pride
• Reasons why soldiers enlisted


  • Pride
  • Adventure
  • Sense of duty
  • Pals battalions with friends
• Life in the trenches


  • Illness - shell shock, lice, trench foot, rats
  • Discomfort - anxiety, mud, rain, smelly
  • Executions - rebelling, drunkenness, cowardice, desertion
  • Small, no toilet, poor sleep, little privacy
• Measures taken by the Nazis against German Jews pre-WW2


  • Jews could not attend the same school
  • They couldn't marry non-jews
  • They had to wear the star of David
  • They were forced into ghettos
• Kristallnacht


  November 9th - 10th 1938, German destroyed many synagogues, and family shops, People were also rounded up in streets by brown shirts
• The ghettos


  • Rationing - starvation, little clothes, no veg
  • Resistance - uprising, hope, belief, weapons
  • Surviving - collaboration, smuggling, selling belongings
  • Living conditions - forced labor, disease, crowded, sheds
  • Transportation - cramped, orphans, disease
• The suffragists


  • Founded by Millicent Fawcett in 1897 - petitions, posters, leaflets, public meetings
• The suffragettes


  • Founded by Emmeline Pankhurst 1903 - chaining themselves, speeches, window smashing
• The role of women during the First World War


  • Women tried to show that they could work like men could
  • They were farmers, police, fire services, nurses, footballers