Eduqas GCSE History: Component 1 Option 1G — Germany in Transition, 1919-1939

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Impact of the First World War

  • 1.1 – Impact of Versailles and weaknesses of Weimar government
  • 1.2 – Political instability – Spartacist, Kapp, Munich Putsches
  • 1.3 – Hyperinflation and events in the Ruhr 1923

• Topic 2 — Recovery of Weimar

  • 2.1 – Recovery from hyperinflation
  • 2.2 – Dawes and Young Plans; Locarno Pact; League of Nations
  • 2.3 – US investment; social and political developments

• Topic 3 — End of the Weimar Republic

  • 3.1 – Social and political impact of the Depression on the Weimar Republic
  • 3.2 – Hitler’s electoral appeal and role of the SA
  • 3.3 – Propaganda; political extremism and scheming 1929-1932

• Topic 4 — Consolidation of power

  • 4.1 – Hitler as Chancellor and Reichstag Fire
  • 4.2 – 1933 election and Enabling Act; trade unions and political parties
  • 4.3 – Night of the Long Knives and Hitler becomes Fuhrer

• Topic 5 — Nazi economic, social and racial policy

  • 5.1 – Reducing unemployment and policy towards workers
  • 5.2 – Women and the Three Ks; controlling education; the Hitler Youth Movement
  • 5.3 – Treatment of the Jews

• Topic 6 — Terror and persuasion

  • 6.1 – Use of SS and Gestapo; control of legal system
  • 6.2 – Goebbels and propaganda: rallies, radio and cinema; censorship of newspapers and the arts

• Topic 7 — Hitler’s foreign policy

  • 7.1 – Hitler’s foreign policy aims; rearmament and conscription
  • 7.2 – The Rhineland 1936 and Anschluss 1938
  • 7.3 – Sudetenland 1938 and Nazi-Soviet pact 1939

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