How far do the sources show the suffragette militant campaign to be an effective one?

Practice Coursework How far do the sources show the suffragette militant campaign to be an effective one? To have a fully effective militant campaign, ultimately the suffragettes had to use it to successfully achieve what they had been campaigning for using legal and peaceful methods. The range of sources show how it definitely was taken seriously by the militants, through propaganda and even suicide to raise awareness of what they thought was necessary to achieve the vote and be on more equal terms with men. The sources give information on how effective the campaign was. Source A is a propaganda poster which would have been used to show how badly women were being treated in prison as a result of their militancy. The poster was probably made when women had just had their political prisoner status removed and as a result they resorted to hunger striking. Previously they had been treated with more respect as they were commonly middle class and now they did not want to be treated as common criminals. It shows people what the suffragettes were going through to achieve their main objective, as this is written on the poster as 'Votes for Women'. This shows that the suffragettes used this poster to highlight the brutality of the government, and to try and gain more support as they are voluntarily going through extremes which shows at least that they firmly believed in what they

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Source based questions on Nazi Germany.

Source based questions (a) Do you think that this cartoon was published in a nazi newspaper or by their opponents? Use the source and your own knowleadge to explain your answer. I think that this source is pro - Nazi firstly because the source shows poor quality meat being searved to the Germans my evidence for this is that in the source the jewish are puting a rat into the mincer. Secondly that the jews want to kill the Germans my evidence for this is that there are goose hanging from the ceeling which represent the German soliders because the German soliders take steeps like goose when they march. Thirdly and lastly it shows a typical jew with a big nose and being fat. I also think that it proves that Jews are evil, wealthy and greedy. (b) Is this an accurate account of the view of all Germans in Nazi Germany? Use the source and your own knowledge to explain your answer. I think that this source is not an accurate account of all germans firstly because its only interviewing one person so therefore it bias and its also a one person view its not like thisperson who was interviewing went and asked every single German in Germany wha they thought about hitler if he/she had done then maybe but because its only the view of only one person it is difficult almost impossible to say that thats what all Germans thought. Secondly the person they are interviewing Alfons

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There were many causes of the Bolshevik Revolution

Rosie Owen 11H There were many causes of the Bolshevik Revolution. Which do you consider to be the most important? The under lying causes of the Bolshevik Revolution are rooted deep in Russia's history. For a long-time, autocratic and repressive Tsarist regimes ruled the country and most of the population lived under severe economic and social conditions. During the 19th century and early 20th century various movements aimed at overthrowing the oppressive government were staged at different times by workers, peasants, and members of the nobility. Two of these unsuccessful movements were the 1825 revolt against Nicholas 1 and the revolution of 1905, both of which were to establish a constitutional monarchy. Russia's badly organised and unsuccessful involvement in World War 1 (1914-1918) added to popular discontent with the government's corruption and inefficiency. In 1917 these events resulted in the fall of the Tsarist government and established the Bolshevik Party, a radical overshoot of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, as the ruling power. There were many effects of the war on the people back home in Russia, food was getting short and many of the male peasants had been conscripted in to the army. This meant that there was a shortage of farm workers and less food was produced. The Russian railway system was being used to carry supplies to the war front and

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The treatment of the Jews in Germany in the year’s 1933- 1945

Rocky 10p The treatment of the Jews in Germany in the year's 1933- 1945 Introduction I have been asked to describe and explain the treatment of the Jews in Germany in the years 1933-1945. I will write an essay for this question, the main points I will be focussing on are: Background to anti Semitism up to 1933 Discrimination against Jews 1933-1937 Persecution against Jews 1937-1942 The final solution These are the four points that will help me to answer the original question, describe and explain the treatment of the Jews in Germany in the 1933-1945. Background to anti-Semitism up to 1933 Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews, for centuries it had been common in Europe. In the early 20th century it was harsh in Russia, so many of the Russian Jews went to Germany also other European countries, they were more tolerant to the Jews. In Germany Jews were poor but a small population of the Jews had a good life. At the time of 1933 in Germany Jews made up less than 1 percent of the population but there were successful in particular professions, 16% of lawyers and 17% of bankers were Jews and 10,000 doctors were Jewish in Germany. So no wonder why German people hated Jews they were jealous and angry at the Jews, the German people felt they were being taken over. The obvious reason why German people hated Jews they felt they were a threat, that they were likely to be

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Anti-Semitism in Germany

Anti-Semitism in Germany Anti-Semitism had always been present in European life and Hitler was an Example of an obsessive anti-Semite. He fed on the Anti-Semitism feelings Felt by German people and was able to translate his intense feelings of Hatred into a series of policies and laws. These laws progressively eroded the rights of German Jews from 1933-1939. Once firmly in power, Hitler's plans for ending the struggle between the Aryan race and the 'inferior races' was set to work. This meant the persecution of Jews. This Persecution took a number of forms. In order to conduct it successfully the Nazis needed to create the right conditions for the German people to accept the policy. At first the Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses for one day in April 1933. This was not as effective as hoped and was deeply unpopular. So Hitler adopted a more gradualist approach and a week later he introduced legislation excluding Jews from certain professions such as the civil service, law and university positions. The Nazi dictatorship grew in confidence and the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 increasing deprived Jews of their German citizenship, giving them the status of 'subjects' in Hitler's Reich. The laws defined Jews as a separate race and created very detailed Nazi definitions of who was Jewish. Many people who never considered themselves Jewish were suddenly

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Without the War British Women would not have gained the Right to Vote in 1918.

This statement can be seen from different points of view. I do not disagree or agree, because I think the war effort helped women secure the vote. But I'm not saying that without war women would have got the vote. I will write about the Victorian society, suffragists and suffragettes, women's contribution during the war and why they got the vote in 1918. Before the war the Victorian society's view of women was very sexist. i.e. they were the weaker sex and their place was in the kitchen. Upper class women and lower class women didn't worry about this. It was the middle class that were educated and had time to think. They wanted the vote because they saw an injustice in the way of voting. 1897 a group of women called the suffragists were formed. They were a group of women campaigning peacefully for the vote i.e. petitions, shops with products, and letters to the government. The suffragists had a leader called Millicent Fawcett and they had 500 local branches over England. But as time went past the government were ignoring the suffragists, and their peaceful methods weren't working. In 1903 many women were getting tired with these methods, they did not seem to be working. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst got together with her daughters and formed the WSPU. Source A shows how much Mrs. Pankhurst wanted the vote. Their aim was to be heard. They did many things like disturbing political

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What triggered the Tsars fall?

What triggered the Tsars fall? Many in Russia would argue that it was the catastrophic impact of war coupled with the failure or the Tsar/Tsarina to embark upon the problems created by involvement in World War One that triggered the Tsar's fall. Nevertheless it is fair to say that discontent among the Russian people had been growing for several years. This dissatisfaction destabilized the position of the Tsar and undermined his authority. Was it a series of mitigating circumstances and bad luck that brought on the Tsar's downfall? Or was the Tsar's own incompetence the key to his failure? There were many causes for the growing discontent in Russia before 1914. There were various politically related issues linked to power, control and government. Nicholas was a deeply religious man and believed he had been chosen to rule Russia by God and felt that he did not have to consult others about his decisions. In the period of late 19th and early 20th century there was an age of modernisation spreading through Western Europe. Everything had advanced, both technologically and socially. But the Tsar's refusal to adapt to his rapidly changing country created serious social and political grievances. A huge civil service was employed to carry out decisions about the country (the Tsar always having the final say) but getting decisions carried out in such a vast country with poor

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How was Hitler able to win Power by 1933?

How was Hitler able to win Power by 1933? Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Incidents ranging post WWI, from 1919 to 1932, influenced Hitler's rise to power such as hyperinflation and the 'Wall Street Crash'. But it was also his qualities as a public speaker and his natural charisma that allowed him to influence so many people. In 1923 Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to take over the Bavarian government by force. Telling the audience that the Munich Putsch was taking place and the National Revolution had began. Hitler was arrested and imprisoned he spent his free time writing 'Mein Kampf', a manifesto/autobiography. Once released from prison Hitler decided to seize power democratically rather than violence; "destroy democracy with the weapons of democracy" Hitler had said. Hitler spoke to scores of mass audiences, calling for the German people to resist the yoke of Jews and Communists, and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years. In the supposed 'Golden Age' of Weimar the Nazi party only won 12 seats to the Reichstag in the election in 1928, but there where gains in rural areas. It was also in that year, that the Nazi Party nearly went bankrupt (because of spending on street parades and public rallies) which would have automatically excluded them from politics. The Communists won 54 seats at this election. Moderate parties like the Centre Party

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Why did Nazi Policies towards the Jews and other minorities in Germany become increasingly harsh over the period 1933 - 39?

Kuljit Chhokar 02.04.05 Miss Cable Exam Question: Life in Hitler's Germany c) Why did Nazi Policies towards the Jews and other minorities in Germany become increasingly harsh over the period 1933 - 39? For Nazis, race not class was the key to history. A healthy, pure race would gain mastery in the struggle for survival in the world. From this came Hitler's ideology of a "master race" and a "volksgemeinschaft". Hitler's "people community" would be superior to all other communities because it would be made up of pure Germans. There would be no room for the disabled in Hitler's vision, no room for the social outcasts and no room for non- Aryans especially Jews and Gypsies. They were the minorities. When Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 he was much more concerned with consolidating power than achieving his people's community or his policy on anti - Semitism. He firstly had to gain absolute power by passing The Enabling Act and then he had to re - establish the German economy. These priorities had to come first. However Hitler was under increasing pressure from radical anti - Semitists in the lower ranks of the party. Despite Hitler's assertion of F(hrerprinzip he was unable to stop these members of the Party from carrying out attacks on Jews. In March 1933 there was post election SA anti - Jewish violence. On 1st April 1933 Hitler announced an official one

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The March Revolution 1917

The March Revolution 1917 a) The conditions are so bad in Petrograd because peasants who used to work on the farms were forced to move into the towns to work in the factories to help in the producing of guns and uniforms for the soldiers. This caused several problems; because all the people who worked on the farms were forced to move into the city there was a food shortage because there weren't enough people to tend the land and the food that was being made was being sent off to the army so there was a near on famine. The second problem was that there were not enough housing for all the people that had suddenly moved into the towns so they often slept in the streets. Another problem was that the workers tended not to be all to good at working in the factories so they made little difference to the Russian army. Also their wages had gone up by 100%, which at first sights is good. However, the prices of food had gone up by 500%. Basically real wages declined. Transportation of food was also another reason for food shortage. These again were used to carry the Russian army and supplies to their home front. These are all reasons why conditions were so bad in Petrograd. b) This could lead to a revolution because people were getting grumpy due to the lack of food and the way they had to work harder. The war effort was going badly and people were upset that they were

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