Transcript How to revise for gcse history

HOW TO REVISE FOR GCSE
HISTORY
KEY SKILLS IN THE EXAM
 Knowledge of the topics
 Able to weigh up the importance of different factors
 Eg) Who made the more significant contribution to fighting disease; Pasteur
or Jenner?
 Able to identify different causes of an event
 Eg) Why was Hitler able to create a dictatorship in Germany between
January 1933 and August 1934?
 Able to engage with the sources to answer a question
 Eg) What do sources A and B suggest about attitudes towards young people
in Nazi Germany?
TIMELINES…
 Can be long-term timelines – eg Germany 1919-45 – or shorter, Germany
1919-23
 Use them to identify key trends in the topic areas
 Eg – 1919-23 is a bad period for the Weimar Republic as it faces a lot of
violence, lack of confidence and events like the Invasion of the Ruhr.
 1924-28 are often called the Golden Years – this timeline would help
students to remember the dates associated with this positive period.
 Annotate them to include short descriptions of the events as well.
 Colour-code them to show trends – economic, political, social etc
WAYS TO MAKE TESTING THEM ON THEIR
NOTES MORE FUN….
 Give them three minutes to read a side of notes and then ask them simple
questions based on the information.
 EXTENSION – then ask them to explain what impact the answers had.
 Eg – How many marks would Germans receive when they had children?
 IMPACT – this would help to increase the birthrate as more people would want to
benefit from the state loan. This would also have meant that more women were having
children and therefore fulfilling the homemaker role the Nazis wanted for women
(kinder, kuche, kirche).
EXAMPLE QUIZ
1
How many jazz bands were there in Berlin by 1927?
2
Before the First World War, there had been a period of strict what in Germany?
3
What school of modern architecture flourished during this time?
GLOSSARIES / FACTFILES
 Challenge your child to find TEN key events or people for a five year period. Can
they explain them? What were they? What was their impact?
 Eg – Germany 1933-38
Kristallnacht
1938 – Following the assassination of
a German by a Jew (in Paris), the SS
encouraged their member to launch
attacks on Jewish property across
Germany. Many windows were
broken, hence the name – Night of
the Broken Glass.
Himmler
Head of the SS which oversaw
the Terror State in Nazi
Germany. Was responsible for
the Final Solution.
Nuremberg Laws
1935 – Laws which removed German
citizenship from Jews, and forbade
marriages and sexual relations
between the two groups.
Strength through Joy
Formed in 1933 shortly after
Trade Unions were abolished.
They provided incentives for
workers and improved some
working conditions.
Goebbels
Minister for Propaganda.
Responsible for promoting Nazis
views through the media and
creating impressive scenes like the
Nuremberg Rallies, or Berlin
Olympics
EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AN EVENT
 Challenging students to weigh up the most important aspects of an event / person
is one of the most effective ways to get them to revise
 Prompting them to answer wider questions and use quality phrases to explain their
impact.
Key Questions:
• How important was Stresemann in
Germany’s recovery, 1923-28?
• Why was it difficult for Germans to oppose
and resist the Nazis after 1933?
• How important have science and
technology been in improving surgery
compared with other factors?
Connecting sentences:
• This was important because…
• This meant that…
• The impact of this meant that…
• This led to…