Eduqas GCSE History: Component 2 Option 2B — The Development of Germany, 1919-1991

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Weimar Germany

  • 1.1 – The impact of war and impact of the Treaty of Versailles
  • 1.2 – Opposition to the government
  • 1.3 – Economic and political reform under Stresemann; improved foreign relations

• Topic 2 — The Rise of the Nazi Party and its consolidation of power between 1933 and 1934

  • 2.1 – Reasons for Nazi support
  • 2.2 – Hitler as Chancellor and steps to dictatorship
  • 2.3 – The creation of the police state

• Topic 3 — Life under the Nazis

  • 3.1 – Economic control and control of workers
  • 3.2 – The treatment of women
  • 3.3 – Children and education
  • 3.4 – The treatment of Jews up to 1939

• Topic 4 — Life during the Second World War

  • 4.1 – Changing conditions on the Home Front
  • 4.2 – Opposition to the Nazis
  • 4.3 – The treatment of Jews and the impact of defeat

• Topic 5 — West and East Germany between 1949 and 1991

  • 5.1 – The division of Germany
  • 5.2 – Economic recovery in the West
  • 5.3 – Control and repression in the East; the separation of Germany by 1961

• Topic 6 — Cold War relations

  • 6.1 – The emergence of the two Germanies; the Berlin Blockade and Airlift
  • 6.2 – The significance of the Berlin Wall and military alliances
  • 6.3 – Brandt and Ostpolitik

• Topic 7 — Co-operation and reconciliation

  • 7.1 – The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe
  • 7.2 – The role of Helmut Kohl
  • 7.3 – The end of the Cold War; the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification

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