History Exam

• League of Nations

  Established by Woodrow Wilson's '14 points' to bring countries together to talk about disputes with each other instead of going to war
• Peace Treaty

  On 11th of November 1918, Germany called a cease-fire named the 'Armistice' which concluded that they could no longer fight but didn't think they surrendered
• The Big Three

  • George Clemenceau - Priminister of France
  • David Lloyd George - Priminister of Britain
  • Woodrow Wilson - Priminister of USA
• George Clemenceau

  • Wanted revenge on Germany for destroying their western front
  • Already tension between both countries due to previous battles
  • Wanted to reduce their armed forces
• David Lloyd George

  • Wanted justice, not revenge
  • Didn't want to be harsh on Germany otherwise that would make them retaliate
  • Intelligent
  • 'Halfway point' between Clemenceau and Wilson
  • Though the terms were too harsh
• Woodrow Wilson

  • Wanted world peace
  • Make the word safe again
  • 1918, published '14 points'
  • Disbarment
  • League of Nations
  • Self-determination - giving countries independence
  • He ultimately wasn't happy with the terms of the treaty and didn't sign the treaty
• Adolf Hitler

  • Anti-communist (disagree with communist beliefs)
  • Anti-semitism (quality of being Jewish)
  • Nationalist (feeling of superiority over other countries)
  • After the events of WWI Hitler joined a small nationalist political party
  • 1932 - Hitler ran for president and lost but convinced Hindenburg to allow him to become chancellor
  • 1933 - Hitler was given emergency power after sometime set fire to the parliament building
  • Freedom of press = gone
  • Party's other than Nazi where disbanded
  • Anti-Jewish laws = gone
  • People who were against Hitler where executed
  • After President Hindenburg died 1934, Hitler was given even more power
• NSDAP (Nazi party)
• The 'armistice' by Germany signified the end of WWI

  End of WWI - 11th of November 1918
• Germany invaded Poland, September 3rd both France and Britain declared war on Germany but were defeated only a few weeks later


  Beginning of WWII - September 1st, 1939
• Fascism

  An ultra-nationalist, political ideology and movement which is characterised through anti-communism, supporting capitalism, intense nationalism, imperialism, and racism
• Nazi-Soviet Aggression Pact

  A pact between Germany who was a fascist and the Soviet Union who was a communist, made so they did not fight each other but instead secretly divide the countries between them
• Fascism rose in Europe from the 1920s - 1930s, with examples being Benito Mussolini and his nationalist fascist party from 1922-1943 and Adolf Hitler's Nazi party from 1933 - 1944
• Appeasement

  Giving in to hostile powers to maintain peace
• Neville Chamberlain


  • He came up with the idea of appeasement
• 5 steps to the path of World War II

  1. 1936: Germany demilitarised the Rhineland's

  2. 1937: Anschluss - Austria and Germany join

  3. The Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia

  4. Aug 23, 1939: The Nazi-Soviet Aggression Pact

  5. End of appeasement: Germany invades Poland
• Through the points of the league of nations, appeasement, and neutrality, Germany's hatred towards the league of nations, France and Britain ignoring Hitler's hostility, and the USA not helping by avoiding neutrality acts led to the path of World War II
• Source analysis

  • Identify: recognize and name
  • Explain: the relationship, how, why, relate, cause and effect
  • Compare: similarities
  • Contrast: differences
• Sentence starters for source analysis: The historical context of the source is the..., The message of the source is that..., The purpose of the source is to..., The perspective of the source is...
• Perspective

  Point of view
• Message

  What the source is conveying, what you are taking away
• historical context

  • background
• purpose

  reason