In class, we have been learning about the RAF bombing campaigns over Germany during World War 2. As we have learned, it is still a controversial topic – to this day, the Bomber Command crews were the only members of the armed forces not to receive a campaign medal, largely due to the reaction against the area bombing of cities such as Dresden.
I would like to hear your opinion on the subject. IN YOUR BOOKS, you need to write a page giving your point of view – do you think they were right, or do you think they were wrong?
Remember the best arguments are those that are supported by sources – there are some sources below to help you.
In the last lesson you learned about the historical background to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
In this lesson, you need to research and find out about the background to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and Al Qaeda.
1. You need to complete the chart you started in the last lesson (see p. 156, OCR GCSE Modern World History). You need to find out about the ORIGINS of each terrorist group, what their KEY AIMS are/were, and who their KEY PERSONALITIES are/were.
As a minimum, you need to complete the table. You can use pages 158 and 159 to do this.
However what I would also like you to do is to find AT LEAST one picture source and one text source FOR EACH terrorist organisation to support what you’ve found – e.g. if you’ve written that a key aim of the PLO is to ‘Destroy the state of Israel’, find two sources that support this.
2. Once you have found your sources, copy them into a PPT, and include a comment on the source – e.g. what does it show, where does it come from, and why have you selected it?
3. E-mail the PPT to me. You will be asked to explain it in the next lesson.
Download the template below onto your computer. You need to produce your own ‘museum’ using sources about Northern Ireland (pictures, text – even links to film). You need to ensure that you include the provenance of the source (e.g where it came from, who took the picture etc), and that you comment on the source. See the last few slides for that.
You should also make sure to create and label different ‘areas’ of your museum – e.g. politics, religion, decades.
You can either e-mail it to me at my school e-mail address (dt followed by the school e-mail) or bring it on a USB.
Try using these picture libraries to help find pictures with a provenance.
In Monday’s lesson, we learned about what kind of young people the Nazis wanted to create and the methods they used to indoctrinate them.
Now, you need to assess how successful the Nazis were in their aims of creating young people who wanted to blindly fight and die for their Fuhrer, and girls who would loyally produce babies for the Fatherland and stay at home to look after the family.
I would like you to write two PEE paragraphs. In the first, you should assess the ways in which the Nazis were successful. In the second, you should assess the ways in which the Nazis were not successful – or where their policies had unintended consequences.
Use the sources below to help you write your paragraphs.
Point – What point are you trying to make? This part should aim to answer the question.
Evidence – Here you need to include information or source material to support your point. It must be relevant, and it must help you to answer the question.
Explanation – The most important part! Here, you need to explain to the reader how the information/source material you’ve included helps you to answer the question. This is your chance to include your own opinon and to convince the reader of your argument! Always make sure that this part links back to the question.
You must write a minimum of 150 words in your blog post.
CAPTION:”Will the audience kindly keep their seats.”
Sidney Strube, Daily Express, (3rd July, 1934)
What is the message of this cartoon? Explain using detail from the source and your own knowledge (post your answer as a comment below – write your first name and last initial)
In 1919 the representatives of the fighting nations of the First World War formally concluded the end of the war by signing the Treaty of Versailles. Ever since, politicians and historians have argued over whether the Treaty of Versailles was fair and justified, or whether it was unnecessarily punitive and harsh.
Look at this source:
“Through the doors at the end…come four officers of France, Great Britain, America and Italy. And then, isolated and pitiable, come the two Germans, Dr. Muller and Dr. Bell. The silence is terrifying…They keep their eyes fixed away from those two thousand staring eyes, fixed on the ceiling. They are deathly pale…There is general tension. They sign. There is general relaxation…We kept our seats while the Germans were conducted like prisoners from the dock.”
(Harold Nicolson, Peacemaking, 1919.)
What does the source tell us about the Treaty of Versailles, and how the peace was concluded?
Do you think the Treaty was fair?
Do you think it would have been possible to have concluded a peace that would have made all countries happy?
Write your responses to these questions in the comment box below.
Recently, you have been asked to complete some research on Gustav Stresemann and his role within the Weimar Republic. You should have come to some conclusions on how important he was to the relative recovery of the Republic between 1923-1929. Was he the key to Germany’s recovery? Was his death the turning point that killed off the Weimar republic? Or was he really just a capable politician who in the end couldn’t solve the problems that the Weimar republic had?
Please post your thoughts below. How important was Gustav Stresemann?
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