How and why did the Holocaust happen? Flashcards
Life did improve:
LGBTQIA+
1533: Henry VIII published a law making homosexualityin England and Wales illegal and punishable by death.
1992: WHO declassifies homosexuality as a mental illness
2014: THe Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act comes into effect in England and Wales, making same-sex marriage legal.
2019: WHO organisation declassifies transgender health issues as a mental illness.
Life did not improve:
LGBTQIA+
2021: Although against the law in the UK prejudice and discrimination is still present against members of the LGBTQ+ community and still formalised in some countries. Death penalty still exists for same sex intercourse in Iran and Saudi Arabia
Progress is made incredibly slowly so people today have been and continue to be severely affected by their sexuality and gender identity
Life did improve:
Gender
1866: a married woman and all she owns belong to her husband, education seen as a way of making girls better wives and mothers, no higher education available
1895: a city of London byelaw makes it illegal to hit your wife between 10pm and 7am because the noise kept people awake
1920: the sex discrimination removal act allows women access to the legal profession and accountancy
2004: domestic violence, crime and victims act makes common assault an arrestable offence
Life did not improve:
Gender
2016: women in England, Scotland and Wales still need the approval of 2 doctors before an abortion while in Northern Ireland you can only have an abortion if at risk of dying.
Life did (not) improve: Disability
eugenics: a social theory that aims to cut out traits that lead to suffering by limiting people with the traits from reproducing.
involuntary euthanasia: intentionally ending someone’s life in order to relieve pain and suffering without their consent
There were charitable ambulances used to transport disabled people to gas chambers
Life did (not) improve: race
Black soldiers from throughout the British Empire fought in WW1. In 1919, there were ‘race riots’ where people wrongly claimed black soldiers were taking white people’s jobs
Notting Hill Riots: poor white families competed with poor carribeans for housing after 1948 British Nationality act that had permitted large numbers of people from the commonwealth to migrate easily.
The ‘white defence league’ urged people to ‘keep britain white’
Riots started on the 29th of August when a gang of white youths attacked a swedish woman who had a black husband.
mon of 300-400 white people attacked the houses of West-Indian residents. The disturbances continued every night until they faded out by the 5th of september.
The Notting Hill carnival was started by Claudia Jones as a means of healing the area in 1959
