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Question: How far did the experience of the First World War enable women in the combatant states to extend their political rights?

Answer: The extension of women’s political rights is described as crucial to “further improvements in the role and status of women” . In...

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Question: Write a commentary on the extract, saying what the document is, setting it in its historical context, commenting on specific points in the text, and summing up the historical significance of the extract for the study of total war and social change.

Answer: The extract is from a letter by James Ellis, World War I veteran, to the producers of a BBC television series “The...

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Question: Assess the view that the Holocaust was the result of a predetermined plan by the Nazi regime.
Mark: 1:1 Grade A

Answer: The Holocaust refers to the mass murder of approximately six million Jews between the years of 1941 to 1945 in Nazi Germany....

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Question: What does the 1949 Basic Law tell us about the perceived flaws of the Weimar Constitution? Are constitutional weaknesses, by that token, an adequate explanation for the emergence of fascism in Germany?

Answer: The basis for the Basic Law of 1949 was very much a reaction to the events in Germany over the previous three...

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Question: How far were the revolutions in Germany (1918) and Russia (1917) the consequence of defeat in war?

Answer: Whilst there are many definitions of the term “revolution”, it is generally considered to be a process involving total governmental breakdown which...

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Question: “Whilst all major European powers bear a share of responsibility for the commencement of hostilities in 1914, the largest must be allotted to Austria-Hungary.” Discuss.

Answer: The outbreak of hostilities in 1914 resulted from both long and short term factors, the final trigger being the assassination of Austria-Hungarian...

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Question: What might have motivated Nazi Doctors in their experiments on concentration camp inmates?

Answer: During the Third Reich's 12-year reign, Germany's once highly respected scientific and medical community legitimised and abetted one of the world's greatest...

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Question: Account for the postwar “population transfer” in Europe.

Answer: War, any war, results in population movements; soldiers mobilizing and invading, civilians fleeing the immediate conflict zones and returning once the battle...

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Question: Critically evaluate the following pair of documents placing them in their historical context and discussing their status in the historiography:

1.22: Adolf Hitler extracts from Mein Kampf (1925)
1.24 Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag (7 March 1936)

Answer: Document 1.22 consists of extracts from Mein Kampf. Document 1.24 is a transcript of a speech to the Reichstag by Hitler. Eleven...

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Question: Discuss the Arguments for and against the policy of Appeasement as carried out by British and French governments in the inter-war years.

Answer: Evidence of a policy of appeasement can be traced back to the 1919 Paris peace settlement however, the clearest evidence of the...

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