SOURCE PRACTICE! LO: To consolidate source technique

Starter – mix and match! 1aCx2 Ox2 Px2 + judgement 1cSource backed by knowledge 1eCOP + judgement 1btwo details from source 1ddetails from source and context to support a view HOW MANY MARKS IS EACH QUESTION WORTH?

Answers 1a two details from source 1c details from source and context to support a view 1e Cx2 Ox2 Px2 + judgement 1b Source backed by knowledge 1d COP + judgement

Let’s have a go! “The Provisional Government possess no real power and its orders are executed only in so far as this is permitted by the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, which holds in its hands the most important elements of actual power, such as troops, railroads, postal and telegraph service....” A letter from Guchkov, Minister for War in the Provisional Government, 22 March 1917 Using the source and your own knowledge, explain why the Provisional Government was weak in 1917? (4) Think about: - What two details can you use to explain the answer? - For each one what do you know to back it up?

Let’s have a go! How far does the source support the view that the Nazis appealed to many people? (5) Think about: What does support this statement in the picture? What promises are made here and to who – be specific. What do you know that supports this or opposes it? Make a judgement answering the question The blocks say “Work, Freedom, Bread”

Let’s have a go! “Our opponents accuse us National Socialists, and me in particular, of being intolerant and quarrelsome. They say that we don’t want to work with other parties. They say the National Socialists are not German at all, because they refuse to work with other parties. So is it typically German to have thirty political parties? I have to admit one thing – these gentlemen are quite right. We are intolerant. I have given myself one goal – to sweep these thirty political parties out of Germany” Hitler speaking at an election rally, July 1932 How useful is this source for an historian studying why Hitler became Chancellor in 1933? (6) Think about: COP – and what does each one do to answer the question How is the source useful and how is it limited based on COP? Make an overall judgement

Let’s have a go!  Look a sources 38 and 39 on p.113 of the blue book. Why do these sources have different views on the role of people in the February Revolution? (8) Think: COP – do one at a time, comparing the sources and answering the question Think about issues of reliability and usefulness, hindsight, primary and secondary (careful here – primary does not mean more reliable) Come to a judgement at the end answering the question