AQA GCSE History: Germany 1890 - 1945 Revision Notes (Reduced from £5)

This revision booklet contains revision notes for all topics covered in the AQA GCSE History module: Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship.

This includes:

• Germany and the growth of Democracy
• What was Germany like before the First World War?
• Economic and social change
• Impact of WW1 on ordinary Germans
• The Weimar Republic – structure, strengths and weaknesses
• The Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles
• Spartacist Uprising 1919
• Kapp Putsch 1920
• The Year of Crises 1923 – invasion of the Ruhr, hyperinflation, Munich Putsch
• The Weimar Golden Age 1924-1929
• The Great Depression
• The growth of the Nazi Party and who voted for them
• How did Hitler become Chancellor?
• Eliminating opposition
• The Night of the Long Knives
• ‘Work and bread’
• Did Hitler make Germany self-sufficient?
• Were ordinary Germans better off under the Nazis?
• Nazi policies for young people and women
• Christianity and the Nazis
• Nazi control – fear and propaganda
• How was art and culture affected?
• Resistance and opposition
• Hitler’s hate list
• Jewish persecution and the ‘Final Solution’ (Holocaust)
• Impact of Total War on ordinary Germans