1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 1933 Germany left the League of Nations. 3. Why was it created? 1934 Attempted Nazi coup in Austria crushed. Poland and Germany sign alliance. 1935 Is this useful? What can it tell you? Germany broke the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles 1936 German troops reoccupied the Rhineland. Rome-Berlin Axis signed Does this make it useful? 1938 Anschluss with Austria. Sudetenland handed to Germany as a result of the Munich conference. 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 1939 Rest of the Czech lands occupied by the Germans. Germany invaded Poland. WWII began Source Attribution: Evidence # 1—timeline of Hitler’s foreign policy—from GCSE Modern History (textbook) 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 2a—Active History (Hitler Stimulation) Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 2b 2b http://www.bbc.co.uk/ learningzone/clips/2455.flv BBC Learning Zone Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 3. Why was it created? ‘It was necessary for us [the Nazi party] to dig ourselves into the minds of the people as the enemies of the peace treaties so that the people will give us their confidence’. Source Attribution: Evidence # 3— Hitler’s use of the Treaty of Versailles. Quote from Mein Kamp, 1924 Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 4a—British Movietone News, 1935 Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 3. Why was it created? ‘It is understood that there are at least 125 fighting aircraft in existence or being made…. secret sources show that an order has been given by the German Government to the Dornier works for 36 twin-engine night bombers. The cost of these orders is to be disguised under funds for employment of the unemployed. There are numerous indications in the last two months of increased activity in the German armaments industry’ Source Attribution: Evidence # 4b—‘British cabinet paper, 16th May 1933. Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Does this affect its usefulness? Source Attribution: Evidence # 4c—Anglo German Navel agreement— signed by Neville Chamberlain (reference made in the Munich agreement of 1938). 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 4d—Hitler surveys a massive Nazi rally, 1935. Taken from the Nazi Party Newspaper. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 4d—Active History Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 3. Why was it created? ‘The Germans are, after all, only going into their own back garden’. Source Attribution: Evidence # 5a—A comment made by Lord Lo- thian in 1936 about the remilitarisation of the Rhineland. He was a senior advisor to the British government. Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 5b— The Goose Step. British cartoon on the Rhineland, 18th March 1936. The Goose Step is a method of marching used by the Nazi army. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? ‘Hitler had chosen his moment carefully. Britain and France were more concerned about Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia. The French government was divided and not prepared to act without the support of Britain. Britain felt that Hitler was doing nothing wrong. The Treaty of Versailles was unjust and therefore Hitler was right to change it. Germany was only moving troops into its own territory. It was not like Mussolini, who had invaded another country. No one wanted war and people took far more notice of Hitler’s promises. At the end of March, Hitler held a vote in Germany on his policies: 99 per cent of those who voted were in favour of them’. Source Attribution: Evidence # 5c—from the AQA ‘International Relations’ textbook, 2009 3. Why was it created? Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence 5e—Head2Head ‘Why did you remilitarise the Rhineland in 1936’? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence #6a. YouTube clip ‘Hitler takes Austria’. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence #6b. Austria 12 March 1938, cheering crowds great the arrival of the German army. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 3. Why was it created? ‘I left this town years ago with precisely the same beliefs as I have today. Imagine how deeply I feel now that I have brought my beliefs to fulfilment. Providence gave me a mission to restore my dear homeland to the German Reich. I believed in that mission, I have lived and fought for it, and I for it, and I believed I have now fulfilled it’. Source Attribution: Evidence # 6c. Hitler speech in 1938. Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence # 6d. Spineless leaders of democracy. David Low, published in the Evening Standard, July 1936. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect the evidence? Source Attribution: Evidence #7a. YouTube clip ‘Chamberlain - peace in our time’ Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence # 7c. The Munich Conference, 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is on the left of the picture, Hitler in the centre; Mussolini second from the right. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence #7d. Results of the Public opinion polls in Britain, 1938 Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence #7e. ‘Our New defence’. A British Cartoon, October 1938. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence #7f. Price of Appeasement, Prague March 1939 Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence #8a. The Pianist Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) 3. Why was it created? Is this useful? What can it tell you? Does this make it useful? 2.Where does the source come from? 4. Is it accurate? Source Attribution: Does this affect the evidence? Evidence #8b. ‘Rendezvous’ Below is a David Low cartoon from September 1939 satirising the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Does this affect its usefulness? 1. What can you infer? (What can you see) Is this useful? What can it tell you? 2.Where does the source come from? Does this affect the evidence? 3. Why was it created? ‘The 48 hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve—racking of my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for our military resources would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance’. Source Attribution: Evidence # 5c—from the AQA ‘International Relations’ textbook, 2009 Does this make it useful? 4. Is it accurate? Does this affect its usefulness?