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What was the year and details of the Kaiser’s second Naval law?
- Doubled the number of battleships to be built each year (to 38).
What did Hitler show off at the ‘Freedom to Rearm rally’ in 1935?
The weapons and troops he had been secretly building up.
What approach did Hitler change to in 1924?
A political approach which aimed to take control of Germany through the democratic process and then change it into what the Nazis wanted.
What was the political impact of the Kaiser’s naval laws?
They won him lots of support as played upon people’s sense of patriotism.
How did English tactics help defeat the Spanish Armada?
Fireships broke the Spanish formation and left individual ships vulnerable. English ships were faster. English cannon bombardment confused the Spanish.
What started the Depression in 1929?
The Wall street Crash in America.
Who were the Spartacists and what did they try to achieve?
A group of Communists led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht who attempted to turn a worker’s protest in January 1919 into a revolution. They captured the government controlled newspaper and telegraph HQs but were eventually beaten and killed by the amry and Friekorp units.
What are two men with surnames Crick and Watson famous for?
Discovering DNA
Which countries made an agreement in the Stresa Front?
Britain, France and Italy.
Who were Schuschnigg and Seyss-Inquart?
The final two chancellors of Austria before Anschluss was acheived.
What does the word Lebensraum mean?
Living space for Germany.
Which of Hitler’s foreign policy aims is not included in RUT?
destroy communism
What has CAR got to do with understanding about the vaccines that Louis Pasteur developed?
C = chicken cholera A = anthrax in sheep R = rabies in humans
Which Catholic plot against Elizabeth was Westmoreland connected to?
The Northern Rebellion
In what year did Crick and Watson publish their work on DNA?
1953
Who was John Field?
Leader of an extreme branch of Puritanism based in London. He preached and published articles against the Church of England, he was eventually banned from preaching.
What was the main difference between the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts?
The first was voluntary, the second was compulsory.
What else about the Nazis impressed voters?
They were well organised and well funded.
What was the Dawes plan?
The Dawes plan was proposed by American banker Charles Dawed in 1924. It gave economic relief to Germany by giving them a huge loan from America.
How many Reichstag seats did the Nazis win in the July and November elections of 1932?
July: 230, November:196
Who was Roosevelt (FDR)?
President of America for most of the 1930s.
What was the Enabling Law and when was it passed?
March 1933. It gave Hitler the power to pass laws without the Reichstag, basically ruling Germany on his own.
What happened to Hindenburg in August 1934 and how did Hitler react?
He died. Hitler then merged the position of President with Chancellor and became all powerful leader of Germany.
Define natural explanations of disease.
Explanations based on physical evidence, observation and scientific deduction (even if the science is wrong).
What tried to invade England in August 1588?
The Spanish Armada
In what year did Hitler achieve Anschluss with Austria?
1938
What was unusual about the Anschluss plebiscite held in April 1938?
It was conducted AFTER the invasion of Austria by Nazi troops had already happened. Those voting were encouraged to vote ‘yes’ by Nazi stormtroopers and a bigger ‘yes’ circle on the voting slip.
In what year was the Babington plot?
1586
In what month and year did the Spanish Armada try to invade England?
August 1588
Which Catholic plots against Elizabeth was Mary Queen of Scots connected to?
The Northern rebellion, the Ridolfi plot, the Throckorton Plot and the Babington Plot (all of them).
Give details of the three problems that affected Germany in 1923.
The French occupation of the Ruhr, hyperinflation and the Munich Putsch.
In what year and period did Joseph Lister publish details of carbolic spray?
1867 - industrial
Who were the SA?
The Sturm-Abteilung or stormtroopers. Hitler’s brown-shirted private army, commanded by Ernst Rohm.
What did Harold Gillies do during and after WW1?
Set up a special unit to perform skin grafts on wounded soldiers.
Who were the Nazis main rival political party during the Depression?
The Communists.
In what year and period did the NHS come into operation?
1948 - twentieth century
Who was planned to marry Mary, Queen of Scots in the Ridolfi plot?
Norfolk
What was it about Hitler’s style and skills that made him so popular with voters?
A powerful and inspiring public speaker, could identify with his audiences, people believed in him.
Which countries signed the Anti-Comintern pact and what did they agree?
Germany and Japan. They agreed to work together against Communism.
Who led the case against Mary, Queen of Scots at her trial?
Francis Walsingham and William Cecil
What is Doctor Christiaan Barnard famous for?
Conducting the first human heart transplant in 1967.
What was the outcome for Hitler at the League of Nations Disarmament conference in 1933?
Germany left the League.
What happened two weeks after Essex’s rebellion?
He was put on trial for treason, found guilty and executed on 25th February 1601.
What did Hitler make the army do in August 1934?
Swear an oath of personal loyalty to him.
What is ‘Mein Kampf?’
Hitler’s auto-biography written during his imprisonment. It stands for ‘My Struggle’ and details many of Hitler’s plans for Germany and his ideas on race etc.
In what year was the Northern Rebellion?
1569
Regardless of anything she did or said, why was Mary, Queen of Scots such a threat to Elizabeth?
She was Catholic, heir to the throne of England and already a Queen.
What did Edward Jenner discover?
Smallpox vaccination using cowpox
Which countries were not invited to the Munich Agreement that should have been there?
Czechoslovakia and Russia.
What did Britain, France and Italy agree in the Stresa Front?
Guarantee the terms of the Locarno Treaty, protect Austrian independence, work together to ensure Hitler stopped breaking the rules of the Treaty of Versailles,
What did Stressemann do to solve the crisis?
Convinced striking workers in the Ruhr to return to their jobs, introduced a new currency called the Rentenmark (1 rentenmark replaced 1000 billion marks), and got Germany financial aid from overseas by co-organising…
What does the word Volksdeutsche mean?
People of the German race
What were recusancy fines?
Fines for people who refused to attend services by the Protestant Church of England.
What was a consequence of Elizabeth not wanting to marry Phillip II of Spain?
The Spanish Armada.
Which war is Harold Gillies linked to?
WW1
Who was Edmund Campion?
A Jesuit who undertook a mission to spread Catholicism to England in 1580. He was executed in 1581.
What are the factors we use in the History of Medicine?
Religion, Chance, War, Individuals, Science & Technology , Communications.
Which plot against Elizabeth involved an illegal Catholic mass being held in Durham Cathedral?
The Northern Rebellion
What threatened Hitler’s power and position as chancellor in 1933?
The Reichstag, Hindenburg and the SA.
In what year did Edmund Campion’s mission come to England?
1580
What name is given to the type of doctor who performs operations?
Surgeon
What did Holland (the Netherlands) have to do with the Spanish Armada?
Holland was a country that was part of the Spanish Empire and in 1566 Protestant rebels had started an uprising. In 1585, Elizabeth sent English troops (Robert Dudley leading 7000) to support the rebels; this was a clear act of war against Spain.
What does the Spanish civil war have to do with our topic?
One side in the Spanish Civil war were Fascists led by General Franco. Hitler and Mussolini sent troops and weapons to support him; this gave their forces a good opportunity to practice fighting.
When was Mary, Queen of Scots executed?
February 1586.
What was the year and details of the Kaiser’s first Naval law?
1898 - added an additional 7 battleships to the total built each year (to a total of 19).
Why was the Sudetenland an attractive target for Hitler?
It belonged to Czechoslovakia which was a new country resulting from the Treaty of Versailles which Hitler opposed.I t had vast resources that Hitler could use such as railways, forts, factories. There were 3 million Volksdeutche there. It surrounded Czechoslovakia on three sides.
What was a consequence of the Kaiser’s work to industrialise Germany?
Increased the gap between rich and poor and made the workers unhappy about their poor wages.
What was agreed in the Pact of Steel?
The armies of Italy, Japan and Germany would work together in any war that broke out.
In what year and period did Joseph Bazalgette begin building London’s underground sewer system?
1858 - industrial
Which Catholic plots against Elizabeth was the Duke of Norfolk connected to?
The Northern Rebellion and the Ridolfi Plot
-When did John Snow discover the link between cholera and dirty water?
1854.
How big was the League of Nations’ army?
0, it didn’t have one.
-What did Edwin Chadwick’s discovery lead to being passed?
The 1848 Public Health act?
When was Mary, Queen of Scots put on trial?
October 1586
What was Laissez-Faire?
A widely held belief at the start of the industrial period that it was not the job of government to try to improve public health.
Which country did the Rhineland belong to?
Germany.
Why was industrialisation a problem for the Kaiser in the early 1900s?
Germany’s Navy and steel production was half that of Britain’s. Wilhelm wanted Germany to be just as great as Britain.
What was Edwin Chadwick’s big discovery?
That high poor rate in some towns resulted from some people being too unwell to work due to poor living conditions.
Why did Hitler feel that he had to choose between the German army and the SA?
Because the army didn’t like Rohm and the SA whilst Rohm wanted command of the army. Hitler knew he needed the armies support to stay in charge.
What was the Austrian Nazi party planning in January 1938?
To overthrow Schuschnigg.
In what year was the ‘Great stink’ in London?
1858
What was forbidden between Germany and Austria in the Treaty of Versailles (spelt correctly)?
Anchluss
-What disease did Pasteur first use his vaccination ideas to treat a human for?
Rabies.
What was the ‘stab in the back’ myth?
A belief held by many Germans that at the end of WW1 they had not really lost but had been betrayed by their own leaders, namely the Weimar republic.
In what year was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
1939
How did the Kasier try to solve the problem of Democracy?
The Kaiser used nationalism to get the support of the upper and middle classes.
In 1558, due to marriage, Mary, Queen of Scots was actually queen of two countries, which were they?
Scotland and France.
In the Babington Plot, who framed Mary, Queen of Scots in plotting to replace Elizabeth?
Francis Walsingham
