BW Abitur History Bilingual FR Basic Subject cheat sheet
BW Abitur History Bilingual FR Basic Subject · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Historical evidence, chronology and justified interpretation
Identify provenance, audience, genre and transmission before judging evidentiary value.
A normative text does not by itself establish actual compliance.
Chronological sequence alone does not prove a causal mechanism.
Periodization is an interpretation with explicit criteria.
Different perspectives remain subject to evidence and contextual evaluation.
Vichy France, occupation, persecution and historical responsibility
Distinguish German occupation from Vichy institutions and their own agency.
Territorial zones changed during the war; date the map used.
Antisemitic statutes, administration and police action had concrete persecutory effects.
Sources on collaboration and resistance require multiple perspectives and corroboration.
Comparisons with Nazi Germany need explicit criteria and attention to unequal power.
Nazi dictatorship, war, persecution and the Holocaust
Key distinctions: Fire Decree 28 February 1933; Enabling Act adopted 23 March and promulgated 24 March 1933; Nuremberg Laws 1935; November pogrom 1938.
Wannsee, 20 Jan 1942, coordinates an ongoing genocide; it is not its starting point.
The invasion of the Soviet Union inJune 1941 was followed by a major expansion of systematic mass shootings; shooting was itself a method of murder.
Intentionalism vs. functionalism and Goldhagen vs. Browning must be named as positions.
Always link provenance, euphemistic language and context when analysing perpetrator documents.
Imperial rivalry, World War I and the interwar order
Compete the theories: Hobson/Lenin, Schumpeter, Cain and Hopkins; don't blend them.
Versailles detail: Article 231, 100,000-man army, 132 bn gold marks under the 1921 London Schedule.
Weimar stabilisation (1924–29) and collapse (after 1929) must be explained separately.
Fischer's war-guilt thesis and the centenary July-crisis debate are positions, not settled facts.
Separate the material from the symbolic effects of the peace treaty in any judgement.
Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory
Distinguish Weimar crises, stabilization and later collapse.
Versailles is part of a multicausal explanation, not an automatic outcome.
Legal proceedings, historical scholarship and commemoration serve different functions.
Public memory reflects later institutions and audiences as well as the past represented.
Interpretations remain accountable to evidence and explicit criteria.