People In History Flashcards

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Account of the life of a teenager living in a Fascist regime

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Führer - Hitler - 1933 - Third Reich - Rally

Organisations - Hitler Youth Organisation - League of German Girls - Songs, ideas, war games, ammunition training - domestic skills

Gestapo - Secret police - don’t say anything bad about Hitler - Prison called Dachau

Jews - Nuremberg Laws - Kristallnacht

Improving & Invading - Volkswagen - Autobahn - Austria - Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia - Poland - War

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Worker during the Industrial Revolution (coal miner)

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Death - Coal miner, Manchester - friends die from overwork/disease - average age is half in the city than countryside

Risks - Trapper - Gas lamp/explosion - floods - steam powered pump

Conditions - pregnant mother working - bad breathing problems - dust inhalation - 1842, Mine’s Act

Hours & House - 5am - 8pm - long walk to work - drag large carts - live in one room with wife and 3 kids - rent a corner of the room to lodger - damp - bad ventilation - 1843, New Poor Law

Hygiene - 1847 cholera - Board of Health - Open drains in streets

Population - More in town than countryside - European population is up due to food and knowledge

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Account of a member of a Flying Column

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INTRO - West Cork FC - On the run, 1919 - Black and Tans - communication cut - Local units - Tom Barry

TRAINING - tough - pillage stores - RIC Skibbereen - kept watch - easy job only one guard

SLEEP - sleep rough - safe houses - stand to - 3 minutes - Black and Tans raiding - good practice

ROUTINE - awake at 6 - wash - eat - locals risk bringing food - drills - training

TACTICS - we know the terrain - British don’t - hit and run tactics - guerilla - surprise element

AMBUSH - Kilmichael Black and Tans - Lookout - first lorry- 10 mins to prep - dressed as Tans doing inspection - killed 3, some of our men injured - safe house

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Namd revolutionary leader - George Washington

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BACKGROUND - Virginia 1732 - wealthy landowner father - wealthy widow - should have a say in how we are governed

ARMY - Philadelphia FCC - Commander in Chief - bad training - Boston Win 1775 - NY loss 1776 - Princeton & Trenton wins

EUROPEANS - Hessians - took Philadelphia - Saratoga Win 8,000 captives - French - Naval support

VALLEY FORGE - winter 77-78 - Valley Forge Pennsylvania - smallpox - Fred Von Steuben - lifted spirits - organised & discipline

VICTORY - Yorktown 1780 - Naval blockade - Mount Vernon - 1789 & 1793 POTUS - retired 1797

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Worker during the Industrial Revolution (Factory Worker)

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DEATH - textile factory weaver - overwork & disease - average age is twice in the countryside than city

HOUSE/HYGIENE - one room in Manchester - rent a corner to a lodger - poor ventilation/damp- New Poor Law 1834 workhouses and rent - 1847 cholera - health board - streets

WORKING HOURS - mother 15-18 - 1819 children under 7 can’t work, u18 no more than 12 hours but wasn’t enforced - 1833 Factory Act limited working hours for women and children - 1847 max 10 hours for women and children

FACTORY - 5am to 8pm - wife and child work too - cruel owner - late, talk, break equipment is a fine - young children operate dangerous machinery

POPULATION - post Industrial Revolution was more in towns than countryside - European population increased due to food and knowledge

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Monk in an Early Christian Momastery

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Founders
Construction
Food
Jobs
Art
Writing
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A person from a NAMED ancient civilisation

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Politics
Housing
Food
Entertainment
Education
Burial customs
Conclusion
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