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2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945

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  • 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.

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The 31 subtopics

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What you need to know

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Who was appointed Chancellor in October 1918 to negotiate peace and introduce constitutional reforms?

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Why was the Weimar Constitution drafted at Weimar rather than Berlin?

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What significant powers did the Weimar President hold?

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What kind of peace settlement did many Germans expect after World War One?

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Approximately what percentage of its territory and population did Germany lose under the Treaty of Versailles?

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Which territories did Germany lose to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles?

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What military equipment was Germany forbidden from possessing under the Treaty of Versailles?

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Who were the 'November Criminals'?

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How did territorial losses affect Germany's industrial capacity after 1918?

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What social welfare provisions did the Weimar Republic introduce?

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What were the Freikorps?

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What was the Kapp Putsch?

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What threat to national unity emerged during the Ruhr crisis?

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Who became Chancellor in August 1923, and what key decision did he make regarding the Ruhr?

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What was the Munich Putsch, and when did it occur?

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How did Hitler use his trial following the Munich Putsch?

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Why were Weimar coalition governments often unstable?

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Which parties formed the Weimar Coalition that supported the Republic?

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What was the size of the initial loan provided to Germany under the Dawes Plan, and where did it come from?

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Why did German agriculture not share in the industrial recovery of 1924-1928?

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What happened to foreign supervision of German finances under the Young Plan?

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What were the defining characteristics of Weimar culture?

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What artistic movements characterised Weimar visual art, and what themes did artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz explore?

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Name three significant Weimar authors and identify the themes their literature explored.

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Who was elected President of Germany in 1925, and what were his political sympathies?

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What was the attitude of traditional elites—the army, judiciary, civil service, and industrialists—toward the Weimar Republic?

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Which countries acted as guarantors of the Locarno settlement?

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What happened to American loans in Germany following the Wall Street Crash?

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What was the approximate level of German unemployment in 1929?

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What psychological effects did the Depression have on the German population?

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What was the Nazi Party's position in the Reichstag after the September 1930 election?

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What happened to Nazi electoral support between July 1932 and November 1932?

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What message did Nazi propaganda tailor for the middle class?

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What nationalist element was central to Nazi ideology?

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Among which social groups did the KPD's appeal particularly grow during the Depression?

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What kind of change and socialism did the KPD promise?

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What form of government did Hindenburg prefer over parliamentary democracy?

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Who replaced Brüning as Chancellor in June 1932?

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What was Papen's government nicknamed due to its aristocratic composition?

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What was the Preußenschlag of July 1932?

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What was Schleicher's strategy for creating a government?

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What arrangement did Papen propose to Hitler in January 1933?

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On what date did the Reichstag Fire occur?

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Where did the Reichstag meet to vote on the Enabling Act, and what was the atmosphere?

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What organisation replaced the trade unions?

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What parliamentary majority was required to pass the Enabling Act?

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What was Gleichschaltung?

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Which organisations carried out the Night of the Long Knives?

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What military position did Hitler gain when he became Führer und Reichskanzler?

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What right was denied to defendants in the special courts?

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What did the Reich Chamber of Culture regulate?

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What positions did Hjalmar Schacht hold in the Nazi government?

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What were Mefo bills and why were they used?

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What was Buna?

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What were the organisations for younger children aged 10-14 called?

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What were Ordensburgen?

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What does 'Kinder, Küche, Kirche' mean and what did it represent?

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How many children were required for each grade of the Mother's Cross?

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What was the Duty Year introduced in 1938?

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What did the Beauty of Labour (Schönheit der Arbeit) programme do?

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What did the Catholic Church agree to in exchange for guaranteed rights under the Concordat?

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What was the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche)?

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What was Volksgemeinschaft?

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Which intellectual framework did Nazi racial ideology draw upon to justify the idea that races compete for survival?

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How did the Nazis conceal the murders carried out under the T4 programme from victims' families?

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How many homosexual men were convicted under Paragraph 175 during the Nazi period, and how were they identified in concentration camps?

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What were the two laws that comprised the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935?

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How did the treatment of Austrian Jews after the Anschluss differ from the earlier treatment of German Jews?

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What financial penalty was imposed on the Jewish community following Reichskristallnacht?

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How many additional Jews came under Nazi control following the invasion of Poland in September 1939?

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How were conditions in the ghettos deliberately designed to cause high mortality?

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What characterised the fourth phase (1939-1941) of the radicalisation of anti-Jewish policy?

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Why was rationing introduced in Nazi Germany during the war?

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Through which channels did Nazi indoctrination intensify during the war?

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What conditions did German workers experience as the war economy prioritised military production?

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What position was Albert Speer appointed to in 1942?

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What conditions did Soviet prisoners of war face when used as forced labour in Germany?

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Name two church figures who opposed the Nazi regime and describe their actions.

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What happened at the Reichstag Fire, and who was blamed?

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What military position did Hitler gain as Führer, when was it confirmed by plebiscite, and what did the new army oath require?

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What limits did the Treaty of Versailles set on Germany's army and weapons, and on union with Austria?

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How did the German government's monetary policy contribute to inflation?

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How did the government's response to the Ruhr occupation accelerate hyperinflation?

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What was the exchange rate between the US dollar and the German mark by November 1923?

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Why was Communist underground resistance severely weakened?

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How did non-conformity differ from resistance in Nazi Germany?

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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

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  1. 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. 2

    Who was appointed Chancellor in October 1918 to negotiate peace and introduce constitutional reforms?

    Model answer

    Prince Max of Baden.

  3. 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. 4

    What happened after the initial mutiny at Kiel in late October 1918?

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    The mutiny spread to other ports across Germany.

  5. 5

    What political bodies formed in major German cities during the revolutionary unrest of 1918?

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    Workers' and soldiers' councils.

  6. 6

    On what date did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate, and where did he flee?

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    He abdicated on 9 November 1918 and fled to the Netherlands.

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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.
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