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My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: Germany and West Germany, 1918-89
Barbara Warnock
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: Germany and West Germany, 1918-89
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Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.

- Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner

- Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks

- Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities

- Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels

- Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers

- Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

Language
English
ISBN
9781471876509
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Title Page
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My Revision Planner
Introduction
1 The Weimar Republic, 1918–33
The creation of a republic, 1918–19
The Weimar Constitution
The features of the Weimar Republic’s constitution
Opposition to the government: the legacy of war and defeat
Economic crises, 1918–23
Government responses to economic crisis
Opposition to the government: political extremism, 1918–23 (part 1)
Opposition to the government: political extremism, 1918–23 (part 2)
Controlling extremism, 1918–23
Policies for recovery, 1924–29 – the ‘Golden Years’
Social and cultural attitudes and policies
The impact of and responses to the Great Depression, 1929–32
The collapse of democracy, 1930–33 (part 1)
The growth of Nazi support
The collapse of democracy, 1930–33 (part 2)
Exam focus
2 Nazi Germany, 1933–45
Establishing a dictatorship
The nature of Nazi government, 1933–39
Support for the Nazi regime
Opposition and dissent
Terror and repression
Nazi racial policies
Nazi policies towards women
Nazi education and cultural policies
Nazi economic policies, 1933–39
Government in wartime
The war economy
The domestic impact of the war
The ‘Final Solution’ and the Holocaust
Exam focus
3 Historical interpretations: How far was Hitler’s foreign policy responsible for the Second World War?
The influence of German history on Nazi foreign policy
Hitler’s role in shaping foreign policy
The contribution of other nations to the outbreak of the war
Why did Germany invade Poland in 1939?
Domestic reasons for the German invasion of Poland
Exam focus (A-level)
Exam focus (AS-level)
4 Democratic government in West Germany, 1945–89
Return to democratic government: the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–49
The denazification policies of the Western Allies, 1945–49
Establishing democracy from 1949
Consolidation under Adenauer and Erhard, 1949–66
Economic recovery and the ‘economic miracle’, 1945–66
The nature of support for democracy in the FRG, 1949–66
Maintaining political stability under Brandt, Schmidt and Kohl, 1966–89
Surviving economic challenges, 1966–89
Political dissent and active challenge, 1949–89
The constitutional and legal response to political extremism, 1949–89
Changing living standards, 1945–89
The role and status of women in the FRG
The status of, and attitudes towards, ethnic minorities in the FRG
Exam focus
Glossary
Key figures
Timeline
Mark schemes
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