2022 Year 10 History Revision

Year 10 Revision

The following questions are a guide to help you study and make for the upcoming yearly exam.

\ The Holocaust

@@What aspects of the Treaty of Versailles did the Germans find unfair? Describe the impact of each one.@@

• Germany had to take responsibility for the war - impacted on their pride.
• Pay millions in repairations - impacted on their economy as it sent them into an economic depression and years of debt.
• Lost Rhinelands - a place which mean
• Lost land to the allies - impacted on their pride (colonialism and the desire to have the greatest empire) aswell as meant they lost land to build new infrastructure.
• Had to reduce the amount of weapons produced/used - reduced their ability to defend themselves.
• Reduce the size of their army - millitarily, lost the ability to defend themselves.

\ $Describe the conditions in Germany in the 1920’s.$

Germany was in a time of political unstability aswell as a depression. After the war many people were left without jobs. The citizens of Germany blamed the Weimar government for signing the Treaty of Versailles.

\ $Describe what happened in the Munich Beer Hall Putcsh.$

Hitler aswell as his followers in the Nazi party stormed a political meeting in a hall in Munich. Fighting outbroke and many of the rebels were killed. Hitler ended up in prison, and it showed him that in order to take power he needs to do it legally/ through politics and not by violence.

\ $Name the book Hitler write in prison – in English and in German. What was it about?$

Mein Kampf - My struggle

• Hitlers antisemetic ideologies; the idea that the Jewish people were a ‘lesser’ race
• Lebensraum ‘living space’ - Germany must take over other countries

$What did Hitler promise the people on his release from prison that helped his party to rise to popularity?$

• promised to return Germany to glory and lead them out of the Great Depression
• Appealed to the German people by saying he wouldn’t follow the Treaty of Versailles
• Employed the lower class.
• Placed blame

$Outline the steps that led to Hitler gaining power in 1933.$

\ $Place the following events on a timeline in chronological order:$

Hitler becomes Chancellor 1933

The Reichstag Fire 1933

The Enabling Act 1933

Rohm Purge, or ‘Night of the Long Knives’ 1934

Hitler become Fuehrer 1934

qThe Nuremberg Laws 1935

The Berlin Olympics 1936

Kristallnacht, or ‘Night of the Broken Glass’ 1938

\ $Explain the significance of the Reichstag Fire.$

The Reichstag fire was a night in which the Reichstag building was set on fire. Whilst there have been many speculations about who actually set the fire, Dutch communist Martin Van de Lubbe was charged. Hitler used this to outlaw the communist party affectively eliminating his largest competition aswell as prevent any other party from threatening his reign.

\ $What was the ‘Night of Long Knives’?$

Night of the Long Knives was from 30 June 1934 to 2 July 1934 and saw the purge of the SA leadership and other political opponents due to Hitler seeing SA and Ernst Röhm, their leader, as a potential threat to his leadership. Carried out primarily by the SS and the Gestapo, over 150 people were murdered and hundreds more were arrested.

\ $Explain how Hitler used propaganda to consolidate power and discriminate against the Jews.$

Propoganda in Germany was heavily supervised, with films, radio, movies and art all being monitored and made to include political propoganda which aligned with the Nazi party policies. Hitler took advantage of Propoganda in order to turn the general public against the Jewish community. He did this by aligning with the general publics views and dislike for the Treaty of Versailles, placing blame on the Jewish people and often making anti-semitic remarks.

\ $Explain how the Nazi Party used censorship.$

Nazi party utilised censorship in order to eliminate any opposing ideas which violated their own policies. Anyone who wanted to express any subversive views or arguments which could potentially harm the Nazi parties future were punished and film, radio, books, posters were all heavily monitored in order to include Nazi Propaganda and nothing else. It was also banned to listen to radio from other countries so the people of Germany could not hear what was going on in the rest of the world, essentially isolating them.

$Outline the Nazi Police state$

The Nazi police state was a state where the Nazi government used the police to control what people did and said. It was also a means for the Nazi party to remain in control. Most of the time an non-uniformed police force called the Gestapo were used to identify anyone who opposed the Nazi government by spying on people, tapping their phones and used informants to find suspects. Their main power was fear, as no one in Germany could trust any one else in case they were part of the Gestapo or an informant.

The SS-Schustaffel wore black uniforms and were a personal bodyguard for Hitler. They were in charge of the police and did not have to act under law, meaning they could raid houses and arrest without trial.

The SD was a security force who’s aim was to find actual and potential enemies of the Nazi party and remove them.

\ $Outline some of the early laws that the Nazis implemented between 1933-1935.$

Jews could no longer participate in civil service, do the bar exam, be editors on newspapers and couldn’t be in the army.

\ $What were the Nuremburg Laws?$

The Nuremburg laws were a set of laws which denied Jews their citizenship and voting rights. In order to keep your German citizenship you had to be considered ‘fully German’ - have no Jewish grandparents at all.

\ $Why are they significant in the persecution of the Jews?$

The laws made it easier for the government to identify and persecute Jews aswell as segragate them further from society by doing things such as denying them access to public facilities and transport and banning them from gaining university degrees.

\ $What were some of the things outlawed by the Nuremburg Laws?$

Marriage and sex between Jews and ‘German Blood’, the employment of German maids under the age of 45 in a Jewish household and Jews flying the national flag.

\ $What is stated in the Reich Citizenship Law?$

‘pure aryans’ were german citizens

$Outline some of the laws between 1936-1938?$

Movements were limited, they had curfews etc. Made to wear the star of David to show they were Jewish. Couldn’t own businesses etc. Everyone lost jobs

\ $Why were the laws during this period significant?$

They isolated all of the Jewish population from the rest of society.

\ $Explain how German youth were controlled under the Nazi party.$

The german youth were enrolled into Hitler youth. They had strict rules which they had to follow. Essentially it manipulated and brainwashed the younger generations to believe fully in Hitlers ideologies so that Germany would have ‘strong leaders’ in the future.

$Outline the events of Kristallnacht. Why is this event so significant?$

Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass marked the night when the Nazi government’s antisemitism changed from a steady erosion of the Jew’s economic and social rights into a widespread, violent campaign. Nazi soldiers drove around the streets destroying shops and setting fires on Jewish houses. Many Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps. Thousands of Jews were injured.

$Name some of the main Ghettoes.$

Warsaw Ghetto, Lodz, Krakow and Minsk.

\ $What were conditions like in the Ghettoes?$

• cramped and overcrowded
• little to no food
• contagious diseases spread rapidly
• unhygenic

\ $What is the Final Solution?$

The ‘final solution’ was the answer to the ‘Jewish question’ and was the deliberate and systematic mass murder of European Jews.

$How was it carried out?$

Saw the liquidation of the ghettos - everyone inside was killed or moved to concentration and death camps where they were forced to endure hard labor and be killed.

\ Rights and Freedoms

 1. When was the United Nations created?  2. What was its aim and function?  3. What role did Dr Evatt have in the establishment of the United Nations?  4. What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?  5. What is the aim and purpose of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?  6. What role did Australia play in its development?  7. Define the following terms:  8. Paternalism  9. Protectionism

10. Self-determination
11. Native Title
12. Terra nullius
13. Assimilation
14. Integration
15. Genocide
16. What was the Day of Mourning? Why is it considered a significant protest in the Aboriginal struggle for Rights and Freedoms?
17. What was the government policy of Protection?
18. How did the Protection Boards control the lives of Aboriginal People?
19. Describe the lives of Indigenous Australians living on reserves and missions.
20. What is the policy of Assimilation? How did it affect the lives of Aboriginal people?
21. What are the Stolen Generations?
22. What impact did the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their families have on those removed and their families?
23. What was the US Civil Rights Movement?
24. List 5 events that occurred in the US during the push for Civil Rights for African American peoples? (eg The Montgomery Bus Boycott)
25. How did these events influence the push for civil rights for Indigenous people in Australia?
26. Describe the aim and purpose of the Freedom Ride in Australia?
27. Who was responsible for organising the Freedom Ride?
28. Outline 2 significant incidents during the Freedom Ride.
29. What did the Freedom Ride achieve?
30. When was the government policy of Integration introduced?
31. What did the government policy of Integration do for Indigenous people?
32. What is Self Determination? When was it introduced? By whom?
33. Each of the following events is considered a key event in the push for civil and land rights. For each one outline what happened and why it was significant.
34. 1962 Right to Vote in Federal Elections
35. 1966 Wave Hill Walk Off
36. 1967 Referendum
37. 1968-1971 Yirrkala Court Case
38. 1972 Tent Embassy
39. The Mabo vs Qld Court Case 1982-1992
40. Native Title Act 1993
41. Wik Decision 1996

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