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Extended Response Writing

  • can have paragraphs, not needed

  • intro: 1-2 lines

  • no conclusion - if there is time, you can write a conclusion

  • 3 arguments is best (2 is a bit less, 4 works as long as it has the same quality)

  • MILK the question (like C.A.r.e.F.u.L)

    • M- marks

    • I- instruction term (command terms)

    • L- limits

    • K- key knowledge

  • first sentence → contention, provide a direct answer to the question

  • when answering questions on causes, structure arguments chronologically

    • if a time period is provided, select events that cover the whole time

  • include some form of specific data (facts, statistics, dates, laws)

  • avoid narrative and irrelevant discussion

TEESOL Structure

T- topic
E- explanation
E- evidence
S- significance
O- outcome

L- link

Quoting

  • explanation before evidence

  • short quotes!

    • embed

    • sandwiched in between explanation

  • quality over quantity

  • tell which source

    • can say “as seen in source a”

    • or “as witnessed in the propaganda poster in source a”

    • or in brackets e.g. (source a)

example passage: (excellent)

However, cultural misunderstandings may sometimes manifest themselves unintentionally, with Broome (2006) suggesting that “significant winks in one group”, such as the Aboriginal Australians, might merely be “twitches of the eye in another”, such as the white settlers. Such misunderstandings led to further tension and frontier conflict, with…. (next piece of evidence) (followed by more analysis)

Study

  • revise content

    • events leading to 1933

      • how nazis and hitler came into power

      • economic social political

    • look at holocaust, chunk into time periods

      • legal things

      • timelines and subheadings in revision

      • 33-38, 39-41 ghettoisation, 4-44 concentration camps, 44-45 death marches

    • remember years, maybe dates if possible

  • practice extended responses

  • brain dump content (one page summary)

    • use page to revise

Test Info

  • two questions

    • questions will say which sources to use

    • “referring to sources a and b, and your background knowledge

  • double sided source page

  • bring pens pencils dictionary highlighter

  • given q&a booklet with criteria and source sheet

  • can use pencil

  • at least two pages response

    • 500 words, 650-700

  • 45 mins

    • 5 mins reading time

    • 5-10 mins planning time

      • highlight parts of source to use

    • 40 mins writing time

      • (20 mins in vce!)

  • one visual one quote source

    • quote from text sources

    • describe visual sources

  • clarity of expression, written expression, sentence structure, grammar

    • spelling mistakes not as important

  • closed book, exam conditions

Include

  • clear contention

  • use source as “springboard into wider point”

    • e.g. for sport poster source in practice assessment, use it to start talking about other forms of non-violent resistance

Revise:


🌍 BEFORE 1933: Context & Causes

🔹 Events Leading to 1933
  • WWI ends (1918): Germany defeated, harsh Treaty of Versailles in 1919

  • Economic chaos: Reparations = money owed, massive inflation, Great Depression (1929) makes things worse

  • Social unrest: People were angry, unemployed, looking for someone to blame


🐍 Rise of Hitler & Nazis

🔹 How They Came to Power
  • 1920: Hitler joins German Workers’ Party → becomes Nazi Party

  • 1923: Beer Hall Putsch (failed coup), Hitler jailed, writes Mein Kampf

  • 1930-1932: Nazi popularity grows due to promises to fix economy + nationalism

  • 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor (30 Jan), Nazis take over

🔹 Key Factors
  • Economic: Promised jobs, blamed Jews & Treaty

  • Social: Nationalism, fear of communism

  • Political: Weak Weimar gov’t, Nazis use propaganda, violence, SA intimidation


🏛 1933–1938: Legal Persecution & Exclusion

🧾 Key Laws
  • 1933:

    • Enabling Act → Hitler rules by decree

    • Boycott of Jewish businesses

  • 1935:

    • Nuremberg Laws: Jews = not German citizens, banned mixed marriages

  • 1938:

    • Kristallnacht (9–10 Nov): 267 synagogues burned, Jewish shops smashed, 30,000 Jews sent to camps


🏚 1939–1941: Ghettoisation & Isolation

🧱 Key Events
  • 1939: WWII begins (invasion of Poland, 1 Sept)

  • Jews forced into ghettos (like Warsaw), walled off, overcrowded, starvation

  • Einsatzgruppen: Nazi death squads killing Jews behind front lines


🏕 1942–1944: Concentration & Death Camps

"The Final Solution"
  • Jan 1942: Wannsee Conference – Nazi leaders plan systematic murder of Jews

  • Major camps: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec

  • Deportations from ghettos to camps by trains

  • Millions killed by gas, starvation, forced labour


🥾 1944–1945: Death Marches & Liberation

Desperate Endgame
  • As Allies closed in, Nazis evacuated camps

  • Forced prisoners on death marches → thousands die from cold, exhaustion, shootings

  • 1945: Camps liberated (Auschwitz – Jan, others later)

  • May 1945: Germany surrenders → end of Holocaust


🧠 Quick Timeline Summary

Year

Event

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1923

Hitler’s failed coup (Beer Hall Putsch)

1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor, Enabling Act

1935

Nuremberg Laws

1938

Kristallnacht

1939

WWII starts, ghettos created

1941-42

Mass killings begin, Final Solution formalised

1942-44

Death camps in full use

1944-45

Death marches, liberation


💡 Mnemonics & Tips

  • 🧾 Laws & Dates: "ENABLING" (1933), "NUREMBERG" (1935), "KRISTALLNACHT" (1938)

  • 🏚 Ghetto → Camp → March

  • Final Solution = 1942

  • 💥 WWII = 1939–1945

  • 🔥 Kristallnacht = fire and glass = 1938

  • Death March = freezing = 1944-45


📜 Treaty of Versailles (1919)

  • A peace treaty that ended World War I — but it was really harsh on Germany.

  • It blamed Germany for the war (“war guilt clause”) and made them:

    • Pay massive reparations 💸

    • Lose land 🗺

    • Shrink their army to almost nothing 🪖

  • Germans saw it as humiliating, unfair, and it caused economic disaster + anger, which helped the Nazis rise later.

🧠 How to remember: Versailles = Vicious treaty → Germany very mad → Nazis take advantage


🔴 Communism

  • A political and economic system where everyone is supposed to share everything equally.

  • No private businesses — the government controls all jobs, land, production.

  • Hitler hated communism because:

    • It was anti-Nazi (and anti-racism)

    • He blamed communists for Germany’s problems

    • He feared a communist revolution like in Russia (1917)

🧠 Why it matters: Nazis used fear of communism to gain support from rich people, businesses, and the middle class.


🥾 SA Intimidation

  • SA = Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment), also called Brownshirts

  • Basically, Hitler’s private army of thugs in the early Nazi years.

  • They beat up opponents (especially communists + Jews), broke up rival rallies, and scared people into voting Nazi.

  • Helped Nazis seem strong and in control during chaos

🧠 Think: SA = Scary Army used to scare voters and destroy rivals


💀 Einsatzgruppen

  • Mobile Nazi killing squads that followed the German army into places like Poland and the USSR.

  • From 1939–41, they rounded up Jews, Roma, communists, and shot them in mass graves.

  • Seen as the early phase of the Holocaust before gas chambers

  • Killed over 1 million people

🧠 Name sounds German military-y → think death squads


🗂 Wannsee Conference (Jan 1942)

  • A meeting of top Nazi officials near Berlin

  • Purpose: Plan the "Final Solution" = the complete extermination of all Jews in Europe

  • Chilling because it shows how systematic + organised the Holocaust was

  • Not emotional — just cold planning, like it was an office meeting

🧠 Wannsee = “We decide how to kill millions”


🌎 The Allies

  • The countries who fought against Nazi Germany in WWII.

  • Main ones:

    • 🇬🇧 Britain

    • 🇺🇸 USA

    • 🇷🇺 Soviet Union (USSR)

    • 🇫🇷 France

  • Liberated the concentration camps in 1944–45 (e.g. Auschwitz in Jan 1945)

  • Their advance caused Nazis to do death marches to try to hide evidence

🧠 Allies = “All together” against Hitler


Let me know if you want a one-line summary cheat sheet or test-style questions on these!