Unit I Context B:

Changing Life in Scotland and Britain 1830s – 1930s

Population change

How did the population change?

Why were there changes?

Where did people go?

What effects did these changes have on life in Scotland and Britain?

Why did the Highland Clearances occur?

Changes in working and living conditions - farming

What technological changes were there during this period?

How did the Golden Age, Great Depression, food imports, the Great War affect
farming?

What were the working and living conditions for labourers like?

Technological change and its effects - coal mining

Why did the demand for coal rise?

What were the conditions in the mines like in the 1830s? – jobs, dangers etc

What advances were made in mining technology?

What did the government do to improve working conditions?

What were conditions in the mines like in the 1930s?

Technological change and its effects - railways

Why did the railways develop?

What effects did railway development have - social, economic, environmental,

political impact

What advances in technology were there throughout this period?

What did the government do to improve safety and regulation?

Living conditions and housing

What were the major problems with health?

What did the government do to improve health?

Why was there a decline in disease

What housing was like in countryside and towns/ problems?

What did the government do to improve housing?

Parliamentary reform in Scotland and England

Why was there a need for political change in 1830?

What reforms were made to extend the franchise?

What acts dealt with the problems of corruption, bribery?

What status did women have in the 19th century?

What did the following groups do to force change: Suffragists and Suffragettes?

How did World War One help to change women’s status?

Unit II Context B:
International Cooperation and Conflict 1890s-1930s

International Tension to 1914

What was The Triple Alliance and what steps led to its formations?

What was The Triple Entente and what steps led to its formations?

What were the long term results/effects of the Alliance System?

What was The arms race and why did it begin?

Who won?- Dreadnoughts.

Why was there a problem in the Balkans in the early 1900s? – nationalism, pan
Slavism, tensions, Great Power involvement

How did the The Sarajevo assassination lead to the outbreak of war?- the steps to
war: Austria, Serbia, allies

Why did Britain join the war?

The experience of war on the Western Front

What was the Schlieffen Plan?

Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?

Why did a stalemate occur?

What were the conditions in the trenches like?

What problems existed with Trench Warfare?

What happened at the Battle of the Somme?

In what ways did technology affect the war? - guns, tanks, aircraft, U boats, gas

The experience of war on the Home Front

In what ways were citizens encouraged to join the recruitment campaigns?

What was the general feeling at home and why?

What did the government do to ensure greater control and a “Total War" -
conscription, DORA, government controls, women, changes in attitudes to war

What happened to food supplies and what were the responses?

What impact did the war have on civilians in Germany?

The Peace

What happened to bring an Armistice in 1918?

What were the costs of war? - material and human

Who were the Big Three and what were their views about peace

What were the terms of The Treaty of Versailles ?

What impact did this have on Germany/ the German People?

What was the aim of the League of Nations?

Why was it not particularly effective?

Unit 3D - Germany 1918-1939

The Weimar Government

Why were many German's unhappy with the Versailles Settlement?

What was the stab in the back theory?

What was The new Weimar Republic and what challenges did it face?

Who was involved in The Spartacist Rising?

Why was their revolt not successful?

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Weimar Constitution?

What was the Kapp Putch?

What was the Ruhr Crisis?

What economic problems did Germany face in 1923?

What was the Munich Putsch?

Why was it ineffective?

How did the treatment of those responsible differ to that of the Spartacists uprising?

The Rise of the Nazis

Why was there discontent under Weimar?

What was successful about the Weimar Republic 1924-29?

How successful were the Nazis pre 1930? Reorganisation, new methods, SS

What did the Nazis’ want and how would they achieve this?

What consequences did The Wall Street Crash have on Germany? .

How did Hitler became Chancellor?

How did the Nazis crush the opposition?

What happened at the Reichstag fire?

What was the Enabling Act?

Why did the Night of the Long Knives occur?

How did Hitler reach out to people of all ages and beliefs?

How did the Nazis view women, children, Jews, non-Aryans etc?