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Second
half of Lent term and Summer term
Syllabus Content.
Part 1: Weimar Republic,
1918-33.
Key Issue 1: How far do the early problems
of the Weimar Republic suggest that it was doomed from the start?
Content Focus :
* origins of the Weimar Republic;
* effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany;
* problems of the Weimar Republic, 1918-24;
* political challenges from the Left and Right;
* Spartacists;
* Kapp Putsch;
* Munich Putsch;
* invasion of the Ruhr;
* hyperinflation.
Key Issue 2: How far did the Weimar Republic
recover under Stresemann?
Content Focus:
* recovery of the economy;
* the Dawes and Young Plans;
* the role of Stresemann;
* inability of the Weimar Republic to cope with Depression.
Part 2: Hitler and the growth of the Nazi party
to 1933.
Key Issue 1: How did the Nazi Party develop
its ideas and organisation up to 1929?
Content Focus:
* early career of Hitler;
* founding of the Nazi Party;
* Munich Putsch;
* Mein Kampf;
* decline in support of the Stresemann years.
Key Issue 2: How was Hitler able to become
Chancellor in January 1933?
Content Focus:
* growth in support for the Nazis, 1929-33;
* and its reasons;
* elections of 1932;
* invitation to lead coalition government, 1933.
Part 3: Establishment
of Nazi dictatorship, 1933-4
Key Issue 1: How did Hitler change Germany
from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship, 1933-34?
Content Focus:
* Reichstag Fire;
* Election of March 1933;
* Enabling Act;
* elimination of political opposition -
* political parties,
* Trade Unions.
* Night of the Long Knives;
* death of Hindenburg;
* Hitler becomes Fuhrer.
Part 4: Nazi rule in Germany, 1934-39.
Key Issue 1: What were the main features
of totalitarian dictatorship in Nazi Germany?
Content Focus:
* one party law and order -
* the SS and Gestapo.
* cultural, racial and religious persecution;
* control of education,
* youth movements and the media;
* censorship and propaganda.
Key Issue 2: To what extent did the German
people benefit from Nazi rule in the 1930?
Content Focus:
* economic policy;
* increased employment through public works programmes,
* rearmament and conscription;
* self sufficiency.
* effects of Nazi policies on people living in Germany.
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