Mid Years Flashcards
Who were the first 7 Earliest migrants to Britain
Celts
Romans
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
Vikings
Normans
When did the Romans arrive in Britain and how long did they stay for
43AD - They stayed for 400 years
When did the Anglo-Saxons arrive in Britain
450AD - After Roman occupation
When did the Normans arrive in Britain
1066
Who were the Huegenots and when did they migrate to Britain?
They were French Protestants that came to Britain - They came in-between the 1560s and 1590s
Why did the Hugenots Migrate to Britain
They were being persecuted for their relgion by Catholic leaders and followers. Many were killed
What did the Huegenots Bring to Britain
They were highly skilled craftsmen and took up jobs like weavers, merchants and joiners. And they joined indrustries that were responible for watch-making, gun-making and bookbinding
Why did many South Asian Migrants turn to Britain after WW2
Job opportunities - such as working for the NHS, for better lifestyles, to escape floods and famines, to avoid violence in their countries and because many countries in south asia were entitled to a british passport as they were part of the british empire
Where did South Asian migrants mainly live after migrating to Britain
North of England, and The Midlands
When Did the leader of Uganda - Idi Amin expell South Asians
1972
What were some negative things that South Asians faced in Britain
-They faced Discrimination
-A lot of South Asians lost thier jobs between 1970’s to 1980’s
-Laws were also passed to limit the amount of South Asian migration
-A young man named Altab Ali was murdered by British youths in a racially motivated killing
What percentage of South Asians were self-employed by 1991?
26% of South Asians were self-employed by 1991.
What types of groups developed to fight South Asian discrimination?
Anti-racist groups, such as the Asian Youth Movements, started to develop to fight discrimination.
What was the orginization that Pushed Racial hatred towards South Asians
The National Front
What is content when we desribe a source
Content is the information in a source.
What does the Provenance of a source include?
Who - who created it and does this make it more or less useful?
What – what type of source is it and does it make it more or less useful?
When – when was it produced? Does it make it more or less useful?
Where – where was it produced and does this make it more or less useful?
What should you look for to see if a source is useful
Is its content (message of the source) useful? Does it describe a positive or negative
experience for South Asian migrants?
Is its provenance (who wrote it and when it was written) useful? It was written by
Muhammed Huque who is a South Asian, why does this make it useful? It was also
written in 1978, why does this make it useful?
When did Hitler come to power
30 Jan 1933
What and when was the Nazis’ first discriminative action against the jews in power
The boycott of Jewish shops
1 April 1933
When was the first legal persecution against jews
April 1933
What did the legal persecution of Jews involve
Jews working for the government were dismissed
Jewish lawyers cannot have non-jewish clients
There was a MASSIVE decrease of places for Jews in schools
Jewish newspapers were shut down
When were the nuremberg laws
1935
When did Migration from Eastern Europe start
1500’s. This also happened a lot in the 1600’s and 1700’s.
But we want to focus on when it happened in the 1900’s.
What were some of the types of Jewish resistance
Ringelblum archive
Jewish children studying
Celebrating Hanukkah
Smuggling in food
When was Kristallnacht
9-10 Nov. 1938
Why was the Persectution of Jews quieter in 1936
Because Germany hid it away during the 1936 Berlin Olimpic Games
Who was Altab Ali
A South Asian migrant who was murdered by white youths
What was Kristallnacht?
“Night of Broken Glass”
Series of Anti-Jew attacks, discreetly encouraged by police whereby 91 Jews were murdered, 20,000 sent to camps, Synagogues were burnt, Jews forced to pay 1 billion Reichsmarks (Nazi currency) in damages
When is a source useful
If it has sufficient and accurate information to make an inference
What was the EVW scheme
When 90000 Eastern European people were invited to take up jobs in Britain
What were some places that Jewish citizens were kept by the Nazis
- Makeshift Ghettos
-Labour Camps
-Death Camps
Why was the EVW scheme introduced
Because Britain was short of workers after the war
What was the British nationality act and when was it
It clarified the right of people living throughout contries in the British Empire to live and work permenantly in Britain - 1948
What and when was the Wannsee conference
Janurary 1942
The nazis discussed how they could come up with a final ‘solution’ to the Jewish ‘problem’ and decided that mass murder would be their policy
What are the Nazi’s makeshift ghettos?
Areas of towns and cities were sectioned off and became known as ghettos. Jews were forced to live there and could not access the outside world
What was the holocaust by bullets
It was where Nazi’s would go house to house and shoot all of the jews inside. It was estimated that 2,200,000 jews were killed this way
What did the nazi do to people who had disablities
Killed or injected them so they could not have children
What were the labour camps
Camps were made for people who were fit enough to do hard labour for the Nazi’s war effort
When did the holocaust end
7 may 1945. Germans surrenendered and two days later 9 may 1945 germans surrendered to the soviets and jews were freed
How were jews immigrated to death camps
They were taken across Europe by train with:
-Barely and light
-No Toilets
-Waited hours for the journey to even begin
What was the first death camp
Chelmno
How were jews were killed in death camps
Jews were gassed in a small room where they thought they were getting a shower
How many death camps were there in total and what were they all named
6 - Chelmno, Belzec, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanel
How many jews were estimated to have been killed in death camps
3 million
How many people were moved to the Warsaw ghetto
460,000 people
Who controlled the Ghetto’s
Jewish councils - they were responsible for food distribution, medicines and organised housing for the jews
