1. GCSE History Revision Activities
Germany
Use your notes and textbooks to complete these revision mind maps.
Test yourself using these by covering over a section then trying to recall all of the key facts and details.
Use these to help you in practising answers to questions from past exam papers

2. What problems faced the Weimar Republic between 1918–23?
Positive features
Weaknesses
The November Criminals
The Weimar Constitution
Hyperinflation
Invasion of the Ruhr
What problems faced the Weimar Republic between 1918–23?
The Spartacists
The Treaty of Versailles
Kapp Putsch
Political Violence
Effects
Terms
LAMB
Munich Putsch

3. Locarno Pact
The League of Nations
Kellogg Briand Pact
Young Plan
How successful was the recovery of the Weimar Republic under Stresemann 1924–29
Dawes Plan
Dealing with hyperinflation
Underlying problems
Stresemann’s role

4. How did the Great Depression affect Germany 1929–33?
The rise of political extremists
Unemployment
Economic effects
Social effects
How did the Great Depression affect Germany 1929–33?
The failure of the Weimar Politicians
Wall Street Crash

5. How did Hitler develop the Nazi Party 1919–23?
Reorganisation
The founding of the Nazi Party
25 Point plan
The role of the SA
How did Hitler develop the Nazi Party 1919–23?
Hitler becomes leader
The aims of the Nazi Party
Hitler’s career before 1919
First World War

6. The SS
Finances
Hitler reorganises the Nazi Party
Changing organisation
Goebbels and propaganda
Mein Kampf
Why did the Munich Putsch fail and what happened to the Nazis in the lean years 1923–29?
Events
Why did Nazi support decline after 1923?
Causes
The Munich Putsch
Hitler on trial

7. How did Hitler come to power in January 1933?
President Hindenburg
Von Schleicher
Von Papen
The Wall Street Crash and Great Depression
Key Events
Bruning’s government
How did Hitler come to power in January 1933?
Middle Classes
The SA and increased violence
Nazi Propaganda
Who supported the Nazis and why?
Hitler’s Appeal
Farmers
Unemployed

8. How did Hitler and the Nazis remove opposition in Germany 1933 - 34?
Events
Consequences
The Enabling Act
The Reichstag Fire
The death of President Hindenburg
Army oath of loyalty
How did Hitler and the Nazis remove opposition in Germany ?
Banning of Trade Unions
The Night of the Long Knives
Banning of political parties
Effects
Events
Munich Putsch

9. How did the Nazis control the German people?
Protestant Church
Concentration camps
Police and the courts
Controlling the churches
The Catholic Church
Heinrich Himmler
Nazi use of fear
How did the Nazis control the German people?
Censorship
The Gestapo
Nazi use of propaganda
Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda
The SS
Control of the media, culture, sports and arts

10. Nazi education in universities
Why the Nazis wanted to control young people
Nazis and the family
Hitler Youth movements
Controlling the youth
What were the Nazis’ policies to control women and the young?
Women and work
Nazi education in schools
Women
Education for girls
Nazi education in universities
Expectations for women

11. How did the Nazis deal with Germany’s economic problems?
Labour Service & public works
The New Plan
How did the Nazis reduce unemployment?
What was Strength Through Joy?
How did the Nazis deal with Germany’s economic problems?
Did the Nazis improve the standard of living for German workers?
Wages
Rearming Germany
Changing standards of living

12. Who opposed the Nazis and how successful were they?
Von Stauffenberg
The White Rose Group
The Army
Who opposed the Nazis and how successful were they?
Pastor Niemoller
The Edelweiss Pirates

13. How did the Nazis treat minority groups?
Kristallnacht
The Nuremburg Laws
Anti Semitic policies
Einsatzgruppen in WW2
How did the Nazis treat minority groups?
Treatment of the disabled
The Final Solution
What were the Nazis’ beliefs about race
Wannsee Conference
Extermination
Master Race/ Aryans
“Inferior” races
Destruction Through Work

14. January 2012 Exam