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OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
Topic overviewThe location of Kenilworth CastleThe appearance and layout of Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyThe day-to-day functions of Kenilworth CastleThe evidence historians use for a castle’s changing functionLife in Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyKey events associated with Kenilworth Castle at different times in its history
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewEarly purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950sLand reform, collectivisation, the First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap ForwardCauses and impact of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards and TibetThe nature of Communist propaganda and its impactCommunism in China after the death of Mao 1976–1981The Communist state and the Chinese people
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the DepressionRising support for Nazis 1929–1933The Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934The Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's communityNazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective oppositionReaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945Racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the warDefeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955The state and the German people, 1925–1955
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Topic overviewThe Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920sThe Depression, the failure of the League and the road to warSoviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile CrisisOrigins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the warUS withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the warChanging interpretations of AppeasementChanging interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold WarThe big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewDiversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman ConquestJews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsionResident aliens in later medieval EnglandAfricans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communitiesThe readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugeesIndustrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and ChartismNaturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world warsThe impact of post-war migration on BritainImmigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010The big questions about migration to Britain
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Topic overviewRelationship between Parliament and Charles I 1629–1642Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649The execution of Charles I 1649The Rump, Cromwell and the Protectorate 1649–1658Attempts to reach a settlement September 1658 – April 1660The tensions that led to war, and the changes that followed
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
Topic overviewAnglo-Saxon kingship, 1066 and the Norman monarchyMagna Carta and the emergence of ParliamentRichard II’s deposition and the Wars of the RosesTudor government, personal rule and the Civil WarsThe Restoration, 1688 and the Bill of RightsThe rise of political parties and a parliamentary monarchyParliament and the people, c.1800–c.1918: reform and the unionsVotes for women, and the state in war and peaceChallenges to Parliament since 1980Claiming, keeping and losing power
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewConsolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and SharpevilleReasons for, methods of and impact of different types of resistanceThe further development of resistanceThe Anti-Apartheid Movement and the regime's response in the 1970sGrowing pressure on the regimeThe State of Emergency and the failure of total strategy 1985–1990Negotiations between the government and the ANCThe state and the South African people, 1960–1994
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
Topic overviewThe church in England c.1520 and its criticsPopular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation ParliamentCromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteriesImmediate reactions to Dissolution including supportResistance and protestDevelopment and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VIEnforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549The English Church before and after the Reformation
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
Topic overviewThe Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British IslesDarien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the AmericasEconomic impact of war and imperial expansionThe Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economyConsumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee housesIdeas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slaveryWhat empire did to Britain and the British Isles
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictionsJim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudiceEconomic and social effects of the Great Depression and government responseThe Second New DealThe mobilisation of the US people for the war effortSocial impact of the warThe Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forcesThe state and the American people, 1919–1948
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewFears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyismJim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movementOpposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and EisenhowerThe roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaignsBlack Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaignsThe impact of feminismStonewall, anti-war protest and the Great SocietyThe state and the American people, 1945–1974
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
Topic overviewWhen immigrant groups arrived, why and from whereSpitalfields: who came, when and whyWhere immigrants settled and how they were receivedSettling in Spitalfields, and how newcomers were receivedThe experiences of immigrantsWork, housing and faith in SpitalfieldsKey events in local migration historyAltab Ali, Brick Lane 1978 and other key events in SpitalfieldsThe impact of migration on the areaSpitalfields today: impact and the multicultural communityReading an urban site for its migration historyReading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewViking raids and the Norman ConquestThe feudal system and feudal military serviceWar in medieval society, c.1290–c.1450Elizabeth I’s wars with Spain, and English privateersBorder warfare, the Civil Wars and the Jacobite risingsImperial wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesThe Crimean War and the Boer WarsThe two world wars and the Cold WarThe IRA campaigns and conflict since 1945What war did to British people and their rulers
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State
- 9 subtopics
- 27 things to know
- Paper 1
- Paper 1, one non-British depth study of five
What Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State covers
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State is examined in Paper 1, Period study with non-British depth study. It covers the Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the Depression, rising support for the Nazis 1929–1933, the Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934, the Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people’s community, Nazi economic and social policy and the lack of effective opposition, reaction to war and the home front 1939–1945, racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the war, defeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955, and the state and the German people, 1925–1955.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Non-British depth study, one of five, sat with the period study.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 9 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the DepressionThe Locarno Pact and League membership, proportional representation and unstable coalitions, the Nazi programme and the party's twelve seats in 1928, and the Depression's impact through recalled American loans, struggling farmers and six million unemployed.Open →
- Rising support for Nazis 1929–1933The fall of Müller's coalition, Article 48 and Brüning the Hunger Chancellor, the Depression as the Nazis' opportunity, the elections of 1930 and 1932, Goebbels's campaigning, funding from industrialists and landowners, and Hitler's appointment as Chancellor.Open →
- The Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934The Reichstag Fire and the emergency decree, the March 1933 election, the Enabling Act and how it was passed, the destruction of the trade unions and the other parties, Röhm and the Night of the Long Knives, and the army's oath to Hitler.Open →
- The Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's communityThe SA, Himmler's SS, the Gestapo and the SD, the courts and the People's Court, Goebbels's propaganda ministry and cheap radios, Hitler's personal popularity, the Volksgemeinschaft and Strength Through Joy.Open →
- Nazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective oppositionHow unemployment fell, the Four Year Plan, economic winners and losers, the regime's view of women and the Mother's Cross, the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens, why resistance was hard to build, and Niemöller's Confessing Church.Open →
- Reaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945The mood of September 1939, the early conquests, the invasion of the Soviet Union and plans for the east, Stalingrad, Allied bombing, rationing, Goebbels's call for total war, why Germans fought on, and the Volkssturm.Open →
- Racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the warThe Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, the persecution of other outsiders and the sterilisation law, the White Rose, the Edelweiss Pirates and the July Bomb Plot, the Einsatzgruppen, the Wannsee Conference and the death camps.Open →
- Defeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955Germany's defeat in 1945, the four occupation zones, the Nuremberg Trials and faltering de-Nazification, the Berlin Blockade, the two states of 1949, Adenauer and the economic miracle, the eastern economy and the Stasi, the rising of 1953 and living standards by 1955.Open →
- The state and the German people, 1925–1955The aims of Nazi domestic policy, Gleichschaltung, competing party and state bodies, Stresemann, the occupiers' aims, the Mittelstand, women, youth, the churches, the Jews, who voted Nazi, inner emigration, wartime mood, opposition and the sources.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Which institutions kept Germans under Nazi control after 1933?
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How did the German public mood follow the course of the war from 1939 to early 1943?
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How did the two German states founded in 1949 differ in leadership and economic organisation?
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Which agreement of 1925 committed Germany to accept its western frontiers with France and Belgium?
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What did Germany join in 1926 that marked its return to the front rank of nations?
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Which crisis turned the Nazis from a fringe party into a mass movement?
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Who led the SS from 1929, and what had it originally been?
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Which groups gained most from Nazi economic policy?
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What were girls trained for in the League of German Maidens?
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How did most Germans greet the news of war in September 1939?
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Who were the White Rose, and what did they do?
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What was the July Bomb Plot of 1944?
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What was the Berlin Blockade of 1948–49?
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What did Gleichschaltung, the bringing into line, mean in practice?
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Why did party bodies and government ministries so often compete to carry out the same policy?
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Why did the voting system make stable government so difficult in the later 1920s?
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What did the election of July 1932 make the Nazi Party?
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What did the Nazis achieve at the polls on 5 March 1933?
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How were enough votes found to pass the Enabling Act?
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How did the Nazis control the civil service and the states?
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What made the Gestapo so feared?
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Why was organised resistance so hard to build inside Germany?
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What lifted the public mood during the first year of fighting?
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What was settled at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942?
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Which two separate German states came into being in 1949?
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What did the occupying powers set out to do in Germany after 1945?
Take Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Gestapo vs SD
Gestapo: secret state police able to arrest on suspicion and send people to camps untried. SD: intelligence and security branch of the SS run by Reinhard Heydrich.
SA vs SS
SA: brownshirted street fighters who broke up meetings and beat political enemies. SS: Himmler's force that began as a small bodyguard unit devoted to Hitler.
Enabling Act vs Article 48
Enabling Act: law of March 1933 letting Hitler legislate for four years without the Reichstag. Article 48: emergency powers clause letting the President issue laws without the Reichstag.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Which agreement of 1925 committed Germany to accept its western frontiers with France and Belgium?
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The Locarno Pact, which greatly improved relations with the western powers.
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What did Germany join in 1926 that marked its return to the front rank of nations?
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The League of Nations, where it was given a permanent seat on the Council.
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Why did the voting system make stable government so difficult in the later 1920s?
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Proportional representation gave seats to many small parties, so no party held a majority and every cabinet was a fragile coalition.
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What did the Nazi Party's twenty-five point programme of 1920 demand about the peace settlement?
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That the Treaty of Versailles be torn up, and that all German-speaking peoples be united in one country.
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How many seats did the Nazis hold in the Reichstag after the election of May 1928?
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Only twelve, from about 2.6% of the vote, leaving them a fringe party.
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What happened to the American loans that German industry depended on after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
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They were called in and no new ones were offered, so firms cut production and dismissed workers.
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Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State revision questions
- What does Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State cover in OCR GCSE History A?
- 9 subtopics: the weimar republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the depression, rising support for nazis 1929–1933, the nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934, the nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's community, nazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective opposition, reaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945, racial persecution, the holocaust and opposition during the war, defeat, occupation and the two germanys 1945–1955 and the state and the german people, 1925–1955. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State organised?
- By the OCR J410 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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