1. What was the Constitution and how did it work
What was the Constitution and how did it work? What were the key features and what were its weaknesses?
What was the extent of economic growth?
The Second Reich
The Socialist Movement and Pressure Groups
Political parties from

2. The Second Reich – von Bulow
Political developments in the Second Reich
Who was von Bulow?
What was Weltpolitik?
The Second Reich – von Bulow
What happened in the Herero Uprising?
What was the Daily Telegraph Affair?
What was Flottenpolitik?
Reforms under von Bulow
The Hottentot election

3. The Second Reich – Bethmann-Hollweg
The 1912 election
What was the extent of constitutional changes ?
What was the Zabern Affair?
Background
Events
Impact
The Second Reich – Bethmann-Hollweg

4. Controversy 1 – to what extent was Germany responsible for the outbreak of WWI in 1914? Subject knowledge
What was the nature of German foreign policy ?
Alliances and war plans
Germany and Britain
Limits to Weltpolitik
The Moroccan Crisis
First Moroccan Crisis,
The Second Moroccan Crisis, 1911

5. Key features of the Balkans
Controversy 1 – to what extent was Germany responsible for the outbreak of WWI in 1914? Subject knowledge
Key features of the Balkans
The First Balkan War 1912
Extent of German responsibility
The July Crisis
Bosnia Herzegovina

6. What is The Fischer Controversy?
Controversy 1 – to what extent was Germany responsible for the outbreak of WWI in 1914? The Historians and further subject knowledge
What is The Fischer Controversy?
Who challenged Fischer and with what arguments?
What was Primat der Innenpolitik?
The War of Illusions
How significant was the War Council?
What evidence does Fischer have?
Other historian’s arghuments

7. What was the impact of WWI on Germany?
What were the reactions to the outbreak of war?
The roles of Hindenburg and Ludendorff
What was the impact of WWI on Germany?
War by year
War by year
War by year
What shortages occurred ?
What were the consequence?
War by year
Opposition to war

8. What led to German defeat in WWI?
How did opposition mount and manifest itself after 1917?
War and Peace
The context of 1918
The Ludendorff Offensive
What led to German defeat in WWI?
What was the July Crisis?
Conclusions – what was the impact of WWI on Germany?

9. What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, 1919-1923?
The Republic is born
What threats were there from the left and the right?
What was the Ebert-Groener agreement?
The Spartacist Revolt
What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, ?
German Party Politics – who were the key parties?

10. What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, 1919-1923?
The National Assembly
What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, ?
The Versailles Treaty – the terms
Territorial provision
Military provisions
War guilt
Reparations
What was imposed by the Treaty of Versailles?
Background
General points on the Settlement

11. What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, 1919-1923? Part 2
A compromise treaty?
What were the problems faced by the Weimar Republic, ? Part 2
Did the Constitution weaken the Republic?
Proportional Representation
Executive Powers and Article 48
How did Versailles threaten the Republic?
What was the Weimar Constitution?
General points and key features

12. What were the threats to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s?
The Kapp Putsch, 1920
Causes
Events
Consequences/impact
The Ruhr Revolution, 1920
How much of a threat were the left?
What were the threats to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s?

13. What was the attitude of the establishment towards the Republic?
The judiciary
The army
What was the impact of Reparations payments on Germany?
What was the Ruhr Crisis, 1923?
Causes and key features
Impact and attempts to stabilise
What was the attitude of the establishment towards the Republic?

14. How stable were the Stresemann Years? 1924, 1929 - stability
Political stability, 1924
Key features
Election, May 1924
The Dawes Plan
Election, December 1924
Obstruction by the SPD
Election of Hindenburg
How stable were the Stresemann Years? 1924, stability

15. How stable were the Stresemann Years? 1924, 1929 - instability
Political instability, 1926
Key features
Election, May 1928
The DNVP moves right
The Young Plan
What was the Freedom Law?
Why did the Grand Coalition collapse?
How stable were the Stresemann Years? 1924, instability

16. Was the period of 1924-1929 a period of economy stability?
Monetary stability
Foreign investment
Delay of reparations
Agricultural problems
Industrial unrest
Was Germany economy stable? conclusions
Was the period of a period of economy stability?

17. Was the period of 1924-1929 a period of social change?
The welfare state
The constitution
How were women’s lives changing?
Housing and public health – what was the situation?
What changes were there for youths?
Was the period of a period of social change?

18. What was ‘Weimar culture?’
Conclusion – was there a clash of cultures?
The conservative side?

19. Foreign policy in the Weimar Years
What were relations like with the Allies?
Foreign policy in the Weimar Years
How successful was Stresemann as a foreign minister?
Successes
Failures
What did the Locarno treaties state?
What was the League of Nations

20. Why did the Nazis rise to power? The origins of the Party
The origins of the Nazi Party
Why did the Nazis rise to power? The origins of the Party
How was the Party organised and reorganised after the Putsch
What was the Munich Putsch, 1923?

21. How did the Nazis’ power grow? 1
The impact of events
National exposure
Wall Street Crash and unemployment
How did the Nazis’ power grow? 1
What electoral success did the Nazis see?
1930?
Economic collapse
Further electoral success
How was Article 48 used?

22. How did the Nazis’ power grow? 2
Prussian coup d’etat
What does this mean? Why was it regarded as a turning point?
How did the Nazis’ power grow? 2
How did events lead to political intrigue and violence?
Nov 1932 elections
Von Schleicher
Business input
Electoral success, 1932

23. How did Hitler become Chancellor and consolidate his power?
Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
When? Why? How?
How did Hitler become Chancellor and consolidate his power?
What lasting obstacles were there for Hitler?
What happened to the left?
What were the limits to Hitler’s power?

24. What events helped Hitler to consolidate his power?
The Reichstag Fire
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
What events helped Hitler to consolidate his power?
What was the Enabling Act and why was it so helpful to Hitler?
The General election, May 1933
What was Gleichschaltung? How did it help with the consolidation of power?
How are the Church dealt with?
Potsdam Day

25. How far had the regime secured power by 1933?
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – popularity and problems
How far had the regime secured power by 1933?
Why was the SA a threat? How does this develop?
Why were the army a threat and what was done about it?
What tensions existed between state and the armed forces?

26. What was the terror state and how did it work?
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – popularity, the terror state and propaganda
What was the terror state and how did it work?
What were denunciations and how were they used to ensure popularity and loyalty?
What is Resistenz?
What is loyal reluctance?
What opposition was there?
How did propaganda and the cult of the Fuhrer ensure loyalty?

27. Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge - popularity
To what extent was there economy recovery and how did this impact on popularity?
What was state paternalism and how effective was it?
How did the regime restrict the army?
Opposition in peacetime:
How was indoctrination used?

28. What was the role of Hitler? An omnipotent leader?
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge - efficiency
What was the role of Hitler? An omnipotent leader?
The divide and rule policy
A polycratic state
The struggles between party and state
How was indoctrination used?

29. Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – Hitler: strong or weak dictator?
What kind of lifestyle did Hitler have and what was the impact of that?
Hitler and the Gauleiter
A lack of formality – what was the impact of this?
Hitler – a weak dictator?
Hitler the decision maker

30. Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – Hitler: foreign policy case study
Hitler’s aims
Successes:
Rearmament and conscription
The Rhineland
The Anschluss
Czechoslovakia
The conquest of Poland
Diplomacy

31. Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – Hitler: working towards the Fuhrer
What did this mean?
Examples of radicalisation
Boycott, 1933
Nurembeg Laws
What was cumulative radicalisation?

32. Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime
Controversy 2 – how popular and efficient was the Nazi regime? Subject knowledge – Hitler: working towards the Fuhrer
Examples of radicalisation
Kristallnacht, 1938
Bouhler and Aktion T4

33. What was life like in wartime Germany? The war itself
How did Germany gear its economy towards war?
What were the key events of war?
Speer and Total War
How did war affect morale?

34. What was life like in wartime Germany? opposition
What was the nature of opposition during the war? Who, what, where, when, why, how?
What was life like in wartime Germany? opposition
What was the bomb plot, 1944?
Why was there so little opposition?

35. What was life like in wartime Germany? Genocide
What was life like for the Jewish community?
What was life like in wartime Germany? Genocide
How did the Final Solution come about? What happened at Wannsee?
How did anti-Semitism evolve?
The Holocaust