Key Issues

Concepts

Content

The causes of the French Revolution

Absolute Monarchy

Revolution

Estates

Political ideas

Philosophical Ideas

Economics

The Ancien Regime � nature of royal control and absolute monarchy

Personal Rule of Louis and Marie Antoinette � unpopularity and weakness

Rumours and scandal

Impact of social, economic, military, philosophical ideas on France

What is a revolution?

The division of France into Estates and the treatment of various groups � social hierarchy, feudal duties and rights, political power, condition of peasantry

Events of the Revolution

Bastille

Third Estate

Constituent Assembly

Tennis Court Oath

Constitutional Monarchy

The Mob

The crisis and Louis� failure to solve it

The Estates General and the Third Estate

The Tennis Court Oath

The Storming of the Bastille

The fall of the monarchy

The role of the mob

Trial and Execution of the King

Committee of public Safety

Terror

Guillotine

Revolutionary justice

Republic

Fall of the king � how far he was responsible, eg Flight to Varenne, letters to Austrians

Trial and Execution

Establishment of the Republic

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity � were people better off?

The Committee of Public Safety and the Terror � role of Robespierre, effects on France

Was France better off?

Napoleon

Emperor

Coup d�Etat

Empire

Consul

Guerrila warfare

Abdication

Napoleon�s Rise to Power

Seizure of Power

Military successes

Internal policies

Campaigns � Italy, Egypt, Peninsular war, Russia

Fall and Exile

Africa before the slave trade

Slave

Benin

Trade routes

Culture

What was Africa like before the arrival of the Europeans ? The example of Benin

Slavery in Africa before the Europeans

Arab slave trade

Internal slavery

Captives

Did Slavery exist before the arrival of the Europeans?

Were there different forms of slavery?

Was there a Transatlantic triangular slave trade?

Plantations

Trade routes

Economic profit

1.        Why did African rulers sell their captured enemies to Europeans?

2.        Why did Europeans buy African slaves?

3.        How were the slaves treated?

4.        Where were slaves sent and why?

What were conditions like on the Middle Passage?

Middle Passage

Abolitionist

How were slave ships designed?

Why did some captains exercise their slaves?

What instruments did the sailors to control the slaves?

What were tight and loose packing?

Why did the rise in demand for cotton lead to the increase in Slavery in the USA?

'King Cotton' Indentured

Scramble

Branding Iron

Auction

What was an indentured servant and how were they treated?

Which inventions caused the growth of the cloth industry in Britain

How did these inventions affect the growth of Slavery?

How were slave auctions organised?

How were slaves treated on the Plantations?

Plantation

Overseer

1.        Why were slaves worked so hard on the plantations?

2.        Why did some owners treat their slaves better?

3.        What were the slave owners' expectations of their female slaves?

4.        What were slave hierarchies?

5.        How were slaves punished?

Black Resistance to slavery.

Resistance Prejudice

How did the Salves try to resist their owners?

What problems did they face once they reached freedom in the North?

What was the Underground Railway?

What role did individuals play?

Abolition of slavery

Racism in modern America.

Abolitionists

Civil War

Emancipation

Stereotype

Racism

Segregation

Discrimination

Bigotry

Black Codes

KKK

Sharecroppers

How did slavery end

How has Hollywood and the film industry perpetuated stereotypes of black people?

What was the KKK?

Who was Martin Luther King?

What was the civil rights movement?

How did they try to get equal rights?

What was the legacy of the First World War?

World War

Warfare

Losses

Versailles

What is a World War?

What were conditions like for soldiers fighting in the trenches?

What effect did the 1st World War have on attitudes to war?

What was the treaty of Versailles?

What affect did it have on Germany?

How did Germans feel towards it?

The outbreak of the Second World War.

Treaty

Blitzkrieg

Communism

Appeasement

What was appeasement?

Why did Hitler invade Poland?

Why did Britain & France declare war on Germany?

What was the Pact of Steel?

Who were the Axis powers?

What is Blitzkrieg?

What effect did it have on the Polish Army?

How did Britain react to the outbreak of the war?

Blackouts

Admiralty

Neutral

Propaganda

1.        What happened during the first few months of the war?

2.        What is a 'Blackout'?

3.        Why was Churchill made Prime Minister?

4.        How did Churchill use Propaganda to unite the country behind him?

Effect of the war on civilians in Britain.

Blighty

London Blitz

Evacuation

Rationing

Home Front

Refugees

Land Army

What was the Home Front?

What affect did the London Blitz have on peoples' lives and attitudes?

What was Rationing & what affect did it have on the health of the population?

What was the Women's Land Army?

Persecution of minorities.

Anti-Semitism 'Scapegoats'

Ghettos

Final Solution

Concentration

Camps

Holocaust

Human Rights

What is Anti-Semitism?

What did Hitler claim was the main differences between Aryan & Jewish races?

Why did Hitler hate the Jews?

How did he gradually persecute them?

What was the Final Solution?

What happened at the Death Camps?