[gasepy]

I am finding it difficult to analyse the sources below:
I understand that there are quite a few cartoons here, so analysis of any number of them would be a great help.
http://hti.osu.edu/o...rsailles_63.jpg
http://hti.osu.edu/o...rsailles_65.jpg
http://rutlandhs.k12...EWW1/TIEDUP.JPG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/20.../22/40668_2.jpg
http://www.johndclar...ivilisation.gif

I would be really grateful if someone could help me out please.
Thanks!

Also, Martin Pugh- the historian. Does anyone know what his view was on the Votes for Women Campaign. I've heard that he was a supporter of the suffragists, is this correct?

And one more thing, the article on Hitler as a 'weak dictator'---> is this information needed for gcse level?
(http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany2_WeakDictator.htm)

[MrJohnDClare]

gasepy, on May 29 2009, 11:58 AM, said:

I am finding it difficult to analyse the sources below:
I understand that there are quite a few cartoons here, so analysis of any number of them would be a great help.

I will try.

http://hti.osu.edu/o...rsailles_63.jpg
This American cartoon shows Hitler crawling out of the rolled up Treaty of Versailles. He is wearing an old-style WWI German helmet. The cartoon is suggesting that Nazism and the rise of Hitler was caused by German anger at the terms of Versailles.

http://hti.osu.edu/o...rsailles_65.jpg
This anti-League American cartoon shows Woodrow Wilson offering the American public the peace treaty. It seems a nice little package, but along with it comes all the burdensome and expensive paraphenalia of the League of Nations - and some of that is not so nice (notice the smelly cheese). Understandably, the American public is thinking twice.

http://rutlandhs.k12...EWW1/TIEDUP.JPG
This anti-League American cartoon suggests that if America joined the League it wouldn;t be free to follow the foreign policy it wanted - it would be pulled this way and that by its obligations to other nations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/20.../22/40668_2.jpgThis is a cartoon about Hitler pushing things too far. Low hated Hitler, and he thought appeasement was wrong. In this cartoon, he is suggesting that - having got away with things in the Sudetenland etc. - Hitler is trying one conquest too many, and that peace will give way under the weight of it.

http://www.johndclar...ivilisation.gif
This simple cartoon is a British attack on the Italian conquest of Abyssinia. Italy claimed that it was a civilized nation bringing civilisation to the barbaric Abyssinians. Instead, the cartoon sarcastically comments that all it has brought is death and modern warfare.

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Also, Martin Pugh- the historian. Does anyone know what his view was on the Votes for Women Campaign. I've heard that he was a supporter of the suffragists, is this correct?

Yes - Pugh is a revisionist - he believes that the Suffragists did more for getting the vite than the suffragettes. See here.

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And one more thing, the article on Hitler as a 'weak dictator'---> is this information needed for gcse level?
(http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany2_WeakDictator.htm)

I think you need to know about it, but you don't need to learn it.