1. Significance and relevance!
To understand what is meant by significance
2)To decide which points are relevant for the question your are answering
SIGNIFICANCE WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

2. Which of these is the most significant and why?
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
• The First World War
• The Treaty of Versailles
• The Munich Putsch
• The World Depression
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

3. THE IMPACT OF AN EVENT OVER AND ACROSS TIME
WHAT IS SIGNIFICANCE?
I. Explanation of other events in history. II. Understanding historical vocabulary. III. Helping us to decide what we think is right and wrong. IV. Understanding how and why people did what they did. V. Understanding the meaning of evidence.
HOW DO THESE RELATE TO THE WSC?
Put in order of importance!
THE IMPACT OF AN EVENT
OVER AND ACROSS TIME

4. Structure YOUR ESSAY YOUR STRUCTURE! Suggestions:
How can the WSC be seen as significant (first part of essay) and how can it not be (second part of essay) – e.g. the events that followed would have happened anyway regardless of the depression or it changed the course of history
The events that happened as a result can be addressed individually (one per paragraph) and then it can be argued if they would have happened anyway or not.
The decision can be made in the introduction and each paragraph proves that this result only happened because of the WSC. You will need to consider other arguments but can disprove them.
Consider LONG term and SHORT term impact. E.g. Do you think that the WSC was to blame for the events that immediately followed and do you think that the later events (e.g. the persecution of the Jews) were inevitable?

5. Key terms for writing essays
Short term: Events which immediately followed the Wall Street Crash (within a year) e.g. Long term: Events which happened later as a result of the Wall Street Crash Significance: The impact of an event over and across time Inevitable: Something that would have happened anyway without other events helping it Impact: The effect something has Justified: Something or a statement which is fair and carries some weight# e.g. an argument can be justified

6. Prelude to the Wall Street Crash
Germany before 1929
Financially crippled by WW1 (statistics)
Land, people and Saar taken from Germany
Reparations from WW1 set at £6.6 million
Invasion of the Ruhr by the French – passive resistance – gave in
Hyperinflation – poverty – starvation
Stresemann – new currency – foreign loans (Dawes Plan) – by 1928 same production as pre war era
No more attempted revolutions
Extreme Right (Nazis) only won 12 seats in 1928
Freedom of culture – writers, poets, artists, cinema, music
Locarno Treaties, League of Nations and Young Plan
BUT:
Economy based on loans
Big businesses gained – smaller businesses did not
Unemployment was rising by 1928
Communists and Nazis were building up their parties
Republic still unpopular
Hindenburg become president and is opposed to democracy
Culture only developed in cities – nothing changed in COUNTRYSIDE
Opposition to moral decline
League of Nations membership unpopular with Right wing
Locarno and League meant that Treaty had been accepted
Economy
Political
Social
Foreign affairs
Video on Germany 1920s

7. What was the Wall Street Crash?
5 mins!
What was the Wall Street Crash?
Write a paragraph to explain what it was using the following words: Stock market Credit Post WW1 Loans Economy 1929 Depression USA debt

8. Before the Wall Street Crash After the Wall Street Crash - 1939
What impact did the WSC have on Germany? Task: 1) What happened to the ECONOMY / POLITICS / LIFE OF PEOPLE (SOCIAL) / FOREIGN AFFAIRS after the WSC? 2) Which of your points before the WSC are relevant to include in your essay? Cross out the ones you will not include.
Economic
Political
Social
Foreign affairs
Before the Wall Street Crash
After the Wall Street Crash
Financially crippled by WW1 (statistics)
Land, people and Saar taken from Germany
Reparations from WW1 set at £6.6 million
Invasion of the Ruhr by the French – passive resistance – gave in
Hyperinflation
Stresemann – new currency – foreign loans (Dawes Plan) – by 1928 same production as pre war era
BUT
Economy based on loans
Big businesses gained – smaller businesses did not
Unemployment was rising by 1928
Hyperinflation – poverty – starvation
Freedom of culture – writers, poets, artists, cinema, music
Culture only developed in cities – nothing changed in towns
Opposition to moral decline
No more attempted revolutions
Extreme Right (Nazis) only won 12 seats in 1928
Communists and Nazis were building up their parties
Republic still unpopular
Hindenburg become president and is opposed to democracy
Locarno Treaties, League of Nations and Young Plan
League of Nations membership unpopular with Right wing
Locarno and League meant that Treaty had been accepted

9. Each points links to the next to improve flow
INTRO!
What is the question / problem?
What is the context?
What is the main argument you are going to make
e.g.
WSC was really significant
WSC was mostly significant
WSC was slightly significant
WSC was not significant
Point 1 to be discussed
Here you could add
a) Your strongest argument (and arguments against)
b) Your short term impacts (and arguments against)
c) Your decision!
Point 2:
Point 5:
Point 4:
Point 3:
Each points links to the next to improve flow
Each paragraph / point backs up your argument in the introduction