Edexcel A-Level History 9HI0
The Crusades, c1095–1204Paper 1
England, 1509–1603: Authority, Nation and ReligionPaper 1
Britain, 1625–1701: Conflict, Revolution and SettlementPaper 1
Britain, c1785–c1870: Democracy, Protest and ReformPaper 1
Russia, 1917–91: From Lenin to YeltsinPaper 1
In Search of the American Dream: The USA, c1917–96Paper 1
Germany and West Germany, 1918–89Paper 1
Britain Transformed, 1918–97Paper 1
Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053–1106Paper 2
England and the Angevin Empire in the Reign of Henry II, 1154–89Paper 2
Luther and the German Reformation, c1515–55Paper 2
The Dutch Revolt, c1563–1609Paper 2
France in Revolution, 1774–99Paper 2
Russia in Revolution, 1894–1924Paper 2
The Unification of Italy, c1830–70Paper 2
The Unification of Germany, c1840–71Paper 2
Mao’s China, 1949–76Paper 2
The German Democratic Republic, 1949–90Paper 2
India, c1914–48: The Road to IndependencePaper 2
South Africa, 1948–94: From Apartheid State to ‘Rainbow Nation’Paper 2
The Rise and Fall of Fascism in Italy, c1911–46Paper 2
Spain, 1930–78: Republicanism, Francoism and the Re-Establishment of DemocracyPaper 2
The USA, c1920–55: Boom, Bust and RecoveryPaper 2
The USA, 1955–92: Conformity and ChallengePaper 2
Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509Paper 3
Rebellion and Disorder Under the Tudors, 1485–1603Paper 3
The Golden Age of Spain, 1474–1598Paper 3
The Witch Craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750Paper 3
Industrialisation and Social Change in Britain, 1759–1928: Forging a New SocietyPaper 3
Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939Paper 3
Britain: Losing and Gaining an Empire, 1763–1914Paper 3
The British Experience of Warfare, c1790–1918Paper 3
Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain, c1780–1928Paper 3
Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923Paper 3
The Changing Nature of Warfare, 1859–1991: Perception and RealityPaper 3
Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and ReunitedPaper 3
The Making of Modern Russia, 1855–1991Paper 3
The Making of Modern China, 1860–1997Paper 3
Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1850–2009Paper 3
Mass Media and Social Change in Britain, 1882–2004Paper 3
Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and Reunited
- 19 subtopics
- 57 things to know
- Paper 3
- Paper 3 themes option, chosen from sixteen
What Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and Reunited covers
A Paper 3 option combining aspects in breadth on German society, women, industry and government economic policy across 120 years with aspects in depth on the founding of the Empire, its collapse in 1918, the Nazi state, the making of the Federal Republic, and reunification.
Where it is assessed
Paper 3
Themes in breadth with aspects in depth, one option of sixteen.
Check the Pearson Edexcel specification ↗The 19 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Changes in class structure and prosperity, 1871–1990Recall questions on the growth of the urban working class, the Junkers, the Mittelstand, the effect of inflation and slump, and the post-war middle class.Open →
- The changing role of women, 1871–1990Recall questions on the civil code of 1900, wartime work, Weimar rights and their limits, Kinder Kuche Kirche, the Trummerfrauen, and the contrast between the FRG and the GDR.Open →
- Strength in manufacturing and agriculture's slow decline, 1871–1990Recall questions on Germany's natural advantages, the role of the great banks, cartels, the decline of agriculture, the 1920s farm slump, and export strength by 1990.Open →
- Government policy and economic change, 1871-1990Recall questions on the tariffs of 1879 and rye and iron, naval building, Nazi rearmament and the Labour Front, and the effect of the CAP.Open →
- Impact of the new Germany's constitutionRecall questions on the structure of 1871, the Kaiser's powers, what the states kept, the Chancellor's anomalous position, the Prussian franchise, and how far it succeeded.Open →
- The Reichstag and the political partiesRecall questions on what the Reichstag could and could not do, why Bismarck granted universal male suffrage, the main parties, the Anti-Socialist Laws, and social insurance.Open →
- Attempts to consolidate the new GermanyRecall questions on the Kulturkampf and why it failed, the treatment of Poles and Danes, Alsace-Lorraine, and the use of foreign policy scares.Open →
- Strains of war, tensions and military dictatorship 1917Recall questions on the blockade and the turnip winter, the silent dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, the Hindenburg Programme, and the Peace Resolution.Open →
- Constitutional reforms from above 1918Recall questions on the October reforms and why they were made, Prince Max of Baden, the Kiel mutiny and the November revolution, and Ebert and Scheidemann.Open →
- The attempt to achieve unity through democracyRecall questions on the Weimar constitution, proportional representation, Article 48, the number of governments, and how far the constitution caused the collapse.Open →
- Gleichschaltung, 1933–34Recall questions on the Enabling Act, the coordination of the states and professions, the Night of the Long Knives, and how complete Gleichschaltung was.Open →
- Hitler's role as FührerRecall questions on the merging of the offices in 1934, his working method, the end of cabinet government, working towards the Fuhrer, and the strong dictator debate.Open →
- The nature of the new Nazi stateRecall questions on party and state, the Volksgemeinschaft and how far it was achieved, the Nuremberg Laws, racial policy after 1935, and the churches' response.Open →
- The creation of the FRG and its ConstitutionRecall questions on how the Federal Republic was created, why it was a Basic Law, the constructive vote of no confidence, the five per cent hurdle, and militant democracy.Open →
- Adenauer, the CDU and the SPDRecall questions on Adenauer's Westbindung, why he preferred integration to reunification, the Elysee Treaty, the Bad Godesberg programme, and what made the CDU new.Open →
- De-Nazification and coming to terms with the pastRecall questions on how de-Nazification worked and why it failed, the 131 Law, the silence of the 1950s, the trials of the 1960s, and Brandt at Warsaw.Open →
- The flood of refugees from the GDR in 1989Recall questions on why people left, Hungary's border, the embassy occupations, the numbers involved, and why the GDR could not seal itself in.Open →
- The revolution in the GDR, 1989Recall questions on the Monday demonstrations, why 9 October was decisive, how the Wall came to open, the effect on the Federal Republic, and Kohl's Ten Point Plan.Open →
- Reasons for and problems of reunificationRecall questions on the Two Plus Four Treaty, why the Soviet Union agreed, British and French reservations, currency union, the Treuhand, and the costs.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What were the constitutional reforms 'from above' in October 1918?
What was the artisan (Mittelstand) tradition?
What were the potential weaknesses of the Weimar Constitution?
What was the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft?
How thorough was de-Nazification in the 1950s?
What were the main reasons for reunification?
How did Germany's class structure change between 1871 and 1990?
What was women's legal position in Imperial Germany?
How did the First World War change women's work?
What was economic and monetary union in 1990?
Why did German industry grow so fast in the nineteenth century?
What was the economic effect of naval building from 1898 to 1914?
What was the impact of Nazi economic policy?
How did the 1871 constitution try to reconcile unity and division?
What powers did the individual states keep?
What social insurance did Bismarck introduce in the 1880s?
What was the Kulturkampf?
What was the 'War in Sight' crisis of 1875?
What was Erzberger's Peace Resolution of 1917?
How did the Independent Socialist Party (USPD) emerge?
What happened in the revolution of 1918–19?
What was the scale of unemployment from 1930 to 1932?
What was Gleichschaltung?
Why did the purge of June 1934 matter?
What was Hitler's style of government?
What was Hitler's working method?
What was the relationship between party and state?
How was the Federal Republic created?
Why was the FRG's founding document of 1949 called a Basic Law rather than a constitution?
Why did Adenauer bind West Germany to the West (Westbindung)?
How did the SPD change in this period?
What did coming to terms with the past mean in West Germany in the 1950s?
Why did East Germans want to leave in 1989?
What was the pan-European picnic?
What were the Monday demonstrations?
Why was 9 October in Leipzig decisive?
Why did the Four Powers accept reunification?
How did social mobility change after the Second World War?
What rights did women gain in the Weimar Republic?
What natural advantages did German industry have?
What was the post-war 'economic miracle' (Wirtschaftswunder)?
What was the significance of the Prussian three-class franchise?
What were the main parties of the Empire?
What did the May Laws of 1873 require of the Catholic Church in Prussia?
How did Germany's war effort strain society?
What was Rosa Luxemburg's role?
What were the salient features of the Weimar Constitution?
How was regional and local government 'coordinated'?
How often did the cabinet meet?
How far was the Volksgemeinschaft achieved?
What was the constructive vote of no confidence?
What was the significance of the 1963 Elysee Treaty?
What was de-Nazification?
What happened at the West German embassies?
How did the Berlin Wall come to open?
What was the Two Plus Four Treaty of 1990?
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Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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How did Germany's class structure change between 1871 and 1990?
Model answer
The urban industrial working class and white-collar ('new Mittelstand') workers grew, while the landowning Junker elite and the peasantry slowly declined.
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What was the artisan (Mittelstand) tradition?
Model answer
A layer of skilled craftsmen and small producers whose status and security were squeezed by large-scale industrialisation.
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How did social mobility change after the Second World War?
Model answer
Post-war reconstruction and the economic miracle increased social mobility and expanded the middle class in West Germany.
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How fast did the urban working class grow after 1871?
Model answer
Germany's population rose from 41 to 68 million by 1914 while the share in agriculture fell to about a third, so industrial towns absorbed the increase.
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Who were the Junkers?
Model answer
The Prussian landowning nobility east of the Elbe, who supplied the officer corps and senior civil service and dominated Prussian politics until 1945.
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What was the position of the Mittelstand?
Model answer
Artisans, shopkeepers and small farmers squeezed between big business and organised labour, whose insecurity made them receptive to nationalism and later to Nazism.
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Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and Reunited revision questions
- What does Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and Reunited cover in Edexcel A-Level History?
- 19 subtopics: changes in class structure and prosperity, 1871–1990, the changing role of women, 1871–1990, strength in manufacturing and agriculture's slow decline, 1871–1990, government policy and economic change, 1871-1990, impact of the new germany's constitution, the reichstag and the political parties, attempts to consolidate the new germany, strains of war, tensions and military dictatorship 1917, constitutional reforms from above 1918, the attempt to achieve unity through democracy, gleichschaltung, 1933–34, hitler's role as führer, the nature of the new nazi state, the creation of the frg and its constitution, adenauer, the cdu and the spd, de-nazification and coming to terms with the past, the flood of refugees from the gdr in 1989, the revolution in the gdr, 1989 and reasons for and problems of reunification. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Germany, 1871–1990: United, Divided and Reunited organised?
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