AQA A-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
- 31 subtopics
- 87 things to know
- Component 2
What 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 covers
Option 2O is a depth study of Germany between the wars, taken as one of the Component 2 choices. It covers the founding and crises of Weimar, its brief stability and collapse, and the Nazi dictatorship, racial state and war.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
A depth study, of which a student sits one.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 31 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyRecall questions on the generals' admission of defeat, the chancellor appointed to seek peace and the naval mutiny that spread across Germany.Open →
- The Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesRecall questions on the Reichstag, Reichsrat and President under the Weimar Constitution, Article 48 and proportional representation as strengths and weaknesses, and the territorial terms of the Treaty of Versailles.Open →
- The Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsRecall questions on the military limits, war guilt clause and reparations of Versailles, the Diktat, the stab-in-the-back myth and the November Criminals, the aims of the Allies and the economic and social burdens of defeat.Open →
- The Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923Recall questions on the causes of inflation, the reparations default and the Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, passive resistance, the collapse of the mark in 1923 and who lost and who gained from hyperinflation.Open →
- The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsRecall questions on the welfare measures of the new republic, the rising of January 1919, its leaders and the forces used to crush it.Open →
- The Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschRecall questions on the courts' treatment of left and right violence, the political effects of the Ruhr occupation, Stresemann's ending of passive resistance, and the course and aftermath of Hitler's Munich Putsch.Open →
- The Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsRecall questions on Hitler's sentence and his use of the trial, and on why coalition government was both necessary and unstable.Open →
- Stresemann and the Dawes PlanRecall questions on the offices Stresemann held and on the loan, the payment schedule and the foreign supervision agreed in 1924.Open →
- Weimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreRecall questions on the Bauhaus, the New Objectivity of Dix and Grosz, the theatre of Piscator and Brecht, Weimar cinema, literature and music, urban freedoms and living standards, and the conservative backlash against Weimar culture.Open →
- Hindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsRecall questions on conservative hostility to modern culture, the presidential election of 1925 and the parties that formed governments.Open →
- Stresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoRecall questions on Stresemann's aims in revising Versailles, the Locarno Treaties of 1925 and the Spirit of Locarno, entry to the League of Nations, the Treaty of Berlin, the nationalist criticism of his policy and his Nobel Prize.Open →
- The Wall Street Crash and the German BanksRecall questions on the date of the crash, the recall of American loans and the effect on German banks and businesses.Open →
- Bruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughRecall questions on the collapse of the Grand Coalition in 1930, Brüning's rule by decree and deflation, and the Nazi and Communist results in the Reichstag elections of 1930 and of July and November 1932.Open →
- Nazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealRecall questions on what Nazi propaganda promised farmers, workers, the middle class and nationalists, Goebbels's rallies, radio and film, the SA's violence, Hitler's image as leader and the core ideas of Nazism.Open →
- The Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenRecall questions on the KPD's appeal and its hostility to the SPD, the fear of communism among conservative voters, Hindenburg's political sympathies, and Papen's cabinet and its lifting of the SA ban in 1932.Open →
- The Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeRecall questions on the removal of the Prussian government in July 1932, why it mattered, and Hitler's answer to the offer of the vice-chancellorship.Open →
- The Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyRecall questions on the Reichstag Fire and van der Lubbe, the Reichstag Fire Decree, the March 1933 election, the passing, terms and opponents of the Enabling Act, and the legal, violent and structural causes of democracy's end.Open →
- Gleichschaltung and the One-Party StateRecall questions on the Enabling Act's majority and renewal, the civil service law of 1933, the abolition of trade unions and the DAF, the banning of parties and the one-party law, and the Reich Governors and end of the state parliaments.Open →
- The Night of the Long KnivesRecall questions on Röhm and the others killed in 1934, why the army and conservatives feared the SA, how the purge was justified, Hindenburg's death, Hitler's becoming Führer and the new army oath.Open →
- The SS, the Gestapo and the Terror StateRecall questions on Himmler and the growth of the SS, the founding and methods of the Gestapo, the SD, the concentration camps and their prisoners, the special courts and People's Court, protective custody and the limits of totalitarian control.Open →
- Opposition and Non-Conformity in Nazi GermanyRecall questions on the banning of the KPD and SPD, the weakness of communist resistance, SOPADE in exile, conservative attitudes before 1938, the difference between non-conformity and resistance and the limits on opposition.Open →
- Goebbels and Nazi PropagandaRecall questions on Goebbels's propaganda ministry and the Reich Chamber of Culture, the Volksempfänger, the Editors' Law, the Nuremberg rallies and Triumph of the Will, the 1936 Olympics and where propaganda worked best.Open →
- Schacht and the New PlanRecall questions on Schacht's offices and on the bilateral trade agreements and import controls of the New Plan.Open →
- The Hitler Youth and the Nazification of SchoolsRecall questions on the age ranges of the youth organisations, when membership became compulsory and the body teachers had to join.Open →
- Nazi Policy towards Women and LeisureRecall questions on Kinder, Küche, Kirche, marriage loans and the Mother's Cross, the contradictions of policy towards women, the Duty Year, Strength Through Joy, Beauty of Labour, workers under the DAF and the Reich Labour Service.Open →
- The Churches and the VolksgemeinschaftRecall questions on the Concordat and Mit brennender Sorge, the German Christians, the Confessing Church, the Barmen Declaration and Niemöller, and the meaning, benefits and drawbacks of the Volksgemeinschaft.Open →
- Racial Ideology, Euthanasia and the Persecution of MinoritiesRecall questions on the core beliefs of Nazi racial ideology, the sterilisation law of 1933, the T4 euthanasia programme, and the persecution of asocials, homosexual men, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Roma and Sinti.Open →
- The Boycott, the Civil Service Law and NurembergRecall questions on the boycott of April 1933, the civil service law, the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, the Anschluss and Eichmann's office in Vienna, Kristallnacht and its fine, Aryanisation, emigration and the Évian Conference.Open →
- The Conquest of Poland and the EinsatzgruppenRecall questions on the Jewish population brought under Nazi rule in 1939, why emigration ceased to be practicable and the work of the killing squads.Open →
- Wartime Rationing, Propaganda and MoraleRecall questions on why rationing was introduced, what wartime propaganda was meant to achieve and how civilian morale changed.Open →
- Total War, Speer and Wartime ResistanceRecall questions on Speer's reorganisation of armaments production, Allied bombing and forced labour, the Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution, the White Rose, church and army opposition, the Kreisau Circle, the July Plot and the Volkssturm.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Why was the Weimar Constitution drafted at Weimar rather than Berlin?
What significant powers did the Weimar President hold?
What kind of peace settlement did many Germans expect after World War One?
Approximately what percentage of its territory and population did Germany lose under the Treaty of Versailles?
Which territories did Germany lose to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles?
What military equipment was Germany forbidden from possessing under the Treaty of Versailles?
Who were the 'November Criminals'?
How did territorial losses affect Germany's industrial capacity after 1918?
What social welfare provisions did the Weimar Republic introduce?
What were the Freikorps?
What was the Kapp Putsch?
What threat to national unity emerged during the Ruhr crisis?
Who became Chancellor in August 1923, and what key decision did he make regarding the Ruhr?
What was the Munich Putsch, and when did it occur?
How did Hitler use his trial following the Munich Putsch?
Why were Weimar coalition governments often unstable?
Which parties formed the Weimar Coalition that supported the Republic?
What was the size of the initial loan provided to Germany under the Dawes Plan, and where did it come from?
Why did German agriculture not share in the industrial recovery of 1924-1928?
What happened to foreign supervision of German finances under the Young Plan?
What were the defining characteristics of Weimar culture?
What artistic movements characterised Weimar visual art, and what themes did artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz explore?
Name three significant Weimar authors and identify the themes their literature explored.
Who was elected President of Germany in 1925, and what were his political sympathies?
What was the attitude of traditional elites—the army, judiciary, civil service, and industrialists—toward the Weimar Republic?
Which countries acted as guarantors of the Locarno settlement?
What happened to American loans in Germany following the Wall Street Crash?
What was the approximate level of German unemployment in 1929?
What psychological effects did the Depression have on the German population?
What was the Nazi Party's position in the Reichstag after the September 1930 election?
What happened to Nazi electoral support between July 1932 and November 1932?
What message did Nazi propaganda tailor for the middle class?
What nationalist element was central to Nazi ideology?
Among which social groups did the KPD's appeal particularly grow during the Depression?
What kind of change and socialism did the KPD promise?
What form of government did Hindenburg prefer over parliamentary democracy?
Who replaced Brüning as Chancellor in June 1932?
What was Papen's government nicknamed due to its aristocratic composition?
What was the Preußenschlag of July 1932?
What was Schleicher's strategy for creating a government?
What arrangement did Papen propose to Hitler in January 1933?
On what date did the Reichstag Fire occur?
Where did the Reichstag meet to vote on the Enabling Act, and what was the atmosphere?
What organisation replaced the trade unions?
What parliamentary majority was required to pass the Enabling Act?
What was Gleichschaltung?
Which organisations carried out the Night of the Long Knives?
What military position did Hitler gain when he became Führer und Reichskanzler?
What right was denied to defendants in the special courts?
What did the Reich Chamber of Culture regulate?
What positions did Hjalmar Schacht hold in the Nazi government?
What were Mefo bills and why were they used?
What was Buna?
What were the organisations for younger children aged 10-14 called?
What were Ordensburgen?
What does 'Kinder, Küche, Kirche' mean and what did it represent?
How many children were required for each grade of the Mother's Cross?
What was the Duty Year introduced in 1938?
What did the Beauty of Labour (Schönheit der Arbeit) programme do?
What did the Catholic Church agree to in exchange for guaranteed rights under the Concordat?
What was the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche)?
What was Volksgemeinschaft?
Which intellectual framework did Nazi racial ideology draw upon to justify the idea that races compete for survival?
How did the Nazis conceal the murders carried out under the T4 programme from victims' families?
How many homosexual men were convicted under Paragraph 175 during the Nazi period, and how were they identified in concentration camps?
What were the two laws that comprised the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935?
How did the treatment of Austrian Jews after the Anschluss differ from the earlier treatment of German Jews?
What financial penalty was imposed on the Jewish community following Reichskristallnacht?
How many additional Jews came under Nazi control following the invasion of Poland in September 1939?
How were conditions in the ghettos deliberately designed to cause high mortality?
What characterised the fourth phase (1939-1941) of the radicalisation of anti-Jewish policy?
Why was rationing introduced in Nazi Germany during the war?
Through which channels did Nazi indoctrination intensify during the war?
What conditions did German workers experience as the war economy prioritised military production?
What position was Albert Speer appointed to in 1942?
What conditions did Soviet prisoners of war face when used as forced labour in Germany?
Name two church figures who opposed the Nazi regime and describe their actions.
What happened at the Reichstag Fire, and who was blamed?
What military position did Hitler gain as Führer, when was it confirmed by plebiscite, and what did the new army oath require?
What limits did the Treaty of Versailles set on Germany's army and weapons, and on union with Austria?
How did the German government's monetary policy contribute to inflation?
How did the government's response to the Ruhr occupation accelerate hyperinflation?
What was the exchange rate between the US dollar and the German mark by November 1923?
Why was Communist underground resistance severely weakened?
How did non-conformity differ from resistance in Nazi Germany?
What did Albert Speer achieve as Minister of Armaments?
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Reichstag vs Reichsrat
Reichstag: national legislature whose authority was progressively destroyed after 1933. Reichsrat: body representing regional governments in the republican constitution.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What did the German military leadership inform Kaiser Wilhelm II in late September 1918?
Model answer
That the war was lost and they advised seeking an armistice.
- 2
Who was appointed Chancellor in October 1918 to negotiate peace and introduce constitutional reforms?
Model answer
Prince Max of Baden.
- 3
Why did sailors of the High Seas Fleet refuse orders on 29 October 1918?
Model answer
They refused suicidal orders to engage the British fleet.
- 4
What happened after the initial mutiny at Kiel in late October 1918?
Model answer
The mutiny spread to other ports across Germany.
- 5
What political bodies formed in major German cities during the revolutionary unrest of 1918?
Model answer
Workers' and soldiers' councils.
- 6
On what date did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate, and where did he flee?
Model answer
He abdicated on 9 November 1918 and fled to the Netherlands.
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2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 revision questions
- What does 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 cover in AQA A-Level History?
- 31 subtopics: the collapse of 1918 and the kiel mutiny, the weimar constitution and the terms of versailles, the military terms of versailles and german reactions, the ruhr occupation and the hyperinflation of 1923, the spartacist uprising and the freikorps, the ruhr crisis, the courts and the munich putsch, the munich putsch and weimar's coalitions, stresemann and the dawes plan, weimar culture: bauhaus, art and theatre, hindenburg's election and the golden years, stresemann's foreign policy and locarno, the wall street crash and the german banks, bruning's deflation and the nazi electoral breakthrough, nazi propaganda, the sa and nazi appeal, the divided left, hindenburg and papen, the prussian coup and hitler's refusal of office, the reichstag fire, the enabling act and the end of democracy, gleichschaltung and the one-party state, the night of the long knives, the ss, the gestapo and the terror state, opposition and non-conformity in nazi germany, goebbels and nazi propaganda, schacht and the new plan, the hitler youth and the nazification of schools, nazi policy towards women and leisure, the churches and the volksgemeinschaft, racial ideology, euthanasia and the persecution of minorities, the boycott, the civil service law and nuremberg, the conquest of poland and the einsatzgruppen, wartime rationing, propaganda and morale and total war, speer and wartime resistance. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 organised?
- By the AQA 7042 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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