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1
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What is migration?

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The movement of people from one place to another.

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Who is a refugee?

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A person who has been forced to leave their country due to persecution or war.

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Who is an asylum seeker?

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A person who seeks international protection and has applied for refugee status.

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4
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When did the Romans arrive in Britain?

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AD 43.

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Name one thing the Romans did.

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Built roads, brought calendars, coins, glass and brick.

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6
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When did the Normans arrive in Britain?

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1066.

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Name one thing the Normans did.

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Reformed the English language.

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8
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When did the Vikings arrive in Britain?

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Late 8th century.

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Name one thing the Vikings did.

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Raided monasteries, gave us King Cnut/Canute

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When did the Anglo-Saxons arrive in Britain?

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450 AD.

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Name one thing the Anglo-Saxons did.

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Name towns, (wich, burn, worth, ton)
Give us 4/7 days of the week, Tiwday, Wodenday, Thorsday, Freyaday (Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri)
Give “Angle-land” its name, England
Base of the English language

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12
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Who were the Huguenots?

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French Protestants fleeing religious persecution.

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13
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When did the Huguenots arrive in the UK?

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Late 1500s

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14
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How many Huguenots fled to the UK and overall?

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Approx. 50,000 fled to the UK; overall, 200,000 fled.

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15
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Who essentially deported Huguenots?

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King Louis XIV

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What did the Huguenots do in the UK?

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Were very highly skilled craftsmen, transformed industries like paper milling, science, business and arts.

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17
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Why did people become Anti-Huguenot?

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Full of diseases (deja vu) and took jobs away

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18
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What is provenance?

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The stuff beneath a source (name, date, organisation)

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What is content?

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The information or material contained within a document or source.

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20
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What are the 5 Ws?

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Who, What, Where, When, Why.

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21
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Why did South Asians settle here?

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The birth right to be here and the NHS, also violence after the partition of India and Pakistan

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22
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How did Indians contribute to WWI?

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Served in the British armed forces.

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23
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Where did South Asians settle?

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Midlands, such as Leicester

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24
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Who is Idi Amin?

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Former President of Uganda known for his dictatorship and deported all South Asians within 90 days in 1972

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25
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When were South Asians deported from Uganda?

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1972

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26
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Who is Altab Ali?

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A British South Asian who was killed in 1978 racially by the National Front.

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27
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Name good things South Asians did.

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By 1991, 26% were self-employed
Anti racism groups were formed to keep themselves safe.
By the early 90s, 70% of sweet shops were owned by them.

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28
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What is the National Front?

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A far-right political party in the UK known for its anti-immigration stance.

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29
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Give one inference for this quote: “kick us and scream abuse”

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Indicates hostility towards immigrants.

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30
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How do you decide if a source is useful?

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Think if the content is beneficial and isn’t biased, and if the person, date, location, organisation per say of the provenance is related.

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Example: if a picture describing WWI was produced in 1993 by an Australian, is its provenance useful?

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No.

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32
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What happened in September 1939?

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World War II began.

33
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Why did Eastern Europeans immigrate to Britain between the 16th and 19th century?

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Fleeing war and persecution.

34
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Were Polish pilots useful in WWII?

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Yes, they played a significant role, especially in the Battle of Britain, being the largest foreign military aid, with the Polish 303 killing 14 Nazis per 1 casualty.

35
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In the 1950s, where did most Poles live who immigrated to the United Kingdom?

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Small resettlement camps up until the 1970s that hosted proud Polish communites.

36
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When did the UK join the EEC?

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1973.

37
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When did the EEC become the EU?

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1992

38
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How many countries joined the EU in 1 May, 2004 on the same day, and how many were from Eastern Europe?

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10 countries joined; 8 were from Eastern Europe:
Cyprus
The Czech Republic (EE)
Estonia (EE)
Hungary (EE)
Latvia (EE)
Lithuania (EE)
Malta
Poland (EE)
Slovakia (EE)
Slovenia (EE)

39
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What is Brexit?

A

The UK’s exit from the European Union.
in football, a career ending tackle🦴

40
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In your opinion, was Brexit good or bad?

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Subjective; opinions vary.

41
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Who is John Blanke?

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A Black trumpeter in the Tudor court of King Henry VII and VIII

42
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Where was John Blanke from?

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Possibly from West Africa, maybe Spain, but definitely came with Catherine of Aragon

43
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Name at least 2 famous Caribbeans of the 4 we learnt of.

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Mary Prince, published slave stories
Mary Seacole, went to Crimea and aided soldiers medically
Walter Tull, played for the team with no trophies in 17 years, mainly served as an officer in the First World War
William Cuffay, political activist in the chartist movement for the working class

44
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What is the 1948 British Nationality Act?

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Legislation that granted British citizenship to Commonwealth citizens.

45
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Why did Caribbeans come here?

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Spoke English, educated about Britain, served in WWII

46
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When Caribbeans arrived, did they live in nice conditions?

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No, they often faced poor living conditions such as WWII bunkers

47
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In 1962, the Government passed an Act that ruled what?

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Restricted immigration from Commonwealth countries to just highly skilled people

48
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In 1968, the Government passed another Act that ruled what?

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Took away the right fully

49
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Of all these migrants, were any in your opinion welcome?

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Subjective; opinions vary.

50
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What is the name of the small areas Jews lived in?

A

Shtetl

51
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How many Jews lived in Poland in 1939?

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3 million

52
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Who killed Jesus?

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The Roman authorities.

53
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What were Jews falsely accused of in the 14th century?

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Spreading disease (deja vu) , crucifying Christian kids and using their blood for passover

54
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What jobs did Jews have in the 14th century?

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Moneylenders and merchants, very unpopular jobs

55
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How many human races are there?

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One. There is one human race.

56
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What did Anti-Semites claim the Jewish race were?

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A separate and inferior race.

57
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What originally in the 1700s was the most Anti-Semitic nation?

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Russia.

58
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Who did the Nazis blame for losing WWI?

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The Jews.

59
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When was Adolf Hitler elected?

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January 30, 1933.

60
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When Hitler was elected, what was his primary aim?

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Destroy Communism

61
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Why didn’t Hitler send Jews to concentration camps immediately?

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Because most people didn’t vote for that, most Germans didn’t mind Jews and if he had, people would’ve got rid of him immediately, if you do stuff gradually, no one notices

62
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Was the Jewish shop strike of April 1933 a success?

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No, it was an absolute disaster

63
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State 2 points of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.

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For Jews:
Makes it illegal to be married, have sex and such with the Aryan race
Makes it illegal to be there, you are not a citizen and can’t get jobs

64
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What and when was Kristallnacht?

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  • Night of Broken Glass
  • Unprovoked attack massacre of 91 Jews
  • 9-10 November 1938
  • 20,000 sent to camps
  • Synagogues burnt
65
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How many Reichsmarks were Jews forced to pay for “causing Kristallnacht”?

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1 billion.

66
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What are ghettos?

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Segregated areas where Jews were forced to live, mostly in Poland after the Nazi occupation

67
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Were ghettos nice places to live?

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No, they were overcrowded and unsanitary, so bad I’d assume many suicides were commited there

68
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Were Eastern European and German Jews treated similarly to Western European Jews?

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No, they faced harsher conditions.

69
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Where were most ghettos, concentration camps and killing centres based?

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In occupied Poland, as there were 3 million of Jews there

70
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What is the Wannsee Conference of 1942?

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A meeting where the Final Solution was planned, hard labour for men and women who were able, gas for “the rest”

71
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Define Holocaust, genocide, antisemitism and alienation

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Holocaust- the genocide of 6,000,000 Jews in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Genocide- the intentional massacre of a race, faith or group of people in order to exterminate it.
Antisemitism- hate or prejudice against Jews.
Alienation- separating someone or a group from common society.

72
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Who were victims of the Holocaust?

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  • Communists
  • Socialists
  • Political opponents of Hitler
  • Gypsies
  • The disabled
  • Criminals
  • Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians)
  • Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • Gay/lesbian
  • Jews
  • Soviet prisoners
  • Black people
  • Roma people
  • Sinti people
73
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What does two features mean?

A

One point, explain it, second point, explain it.

74
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What and when was the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

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  • April-May 1943
  • Nazis aimed to send them to concentration camps
  • Held them back for a month nearly
  • Uprising was ended by Nazis burning the ghetto, 7,000 Jews killed
75
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Describe two features of South Asian migration to Britain. (4)

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  • Aggressive reaction by British people.
  • Stabbing of Altab Ali
  • Business ownership
  • By the 1990s, 26% of South Asians were self-employed
  • By the 1990s, 70% of sweet shops were owned by South Asians.
76
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Describe two features of the rise of the Holocaust.

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  • Legal persecution
  • Mass firing of all Jewish officals in the German Government.
  • 1936 Berlin Olympics
  • Physical harm
  • Kristallnacht, 91 Jews massacred by Nazi soldiers.
  • 1935 Nuremberg Laws
77
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How to answer this question?:

How useful are Sources A and B for an enquiry into _________? (8)

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  • Explain Source A’s content
  • Explain Source A’s provenence (2Ws)
  • Explain Source B’s content
  • Explain Source B’s provenence (2Ws)
  • Conclusion (judgement)
78
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Who, when and where were the Celts?

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  • Central Europe
  • Settled around 500 BC here
  • Brutally fought each other
  • Celtic priests or druids in charge of religious ritualfs
79
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Who is Paul Stephenson?

A

A British-Caribbean man who started a boycott of Bristol buses in 1961. It garnered widespread attention, and in August 1963, the bus company ended “the colour bar”

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