Edexcel A2 Unit 3 Option D1: From Kaiser to Führer: Germany 1900â "45 (Student Support Materials for History)

Enable students to succeed in their exam with From Kaiser to Führer. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History A2 Unit 3 Option D1, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure a higher grade.

From Kaiser to Führer: Germany, 1900–45 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel A2 Unit 3 Option D1 examination, including:

• Chapter 1: THE SECOND REICH TO 1914
  Including – Economic expansion, 1900–14; social divisions, government, constitution and political parties in imperial Germany; domestic politics, 1900–14; the impact of the First World War; the November Revolution, 1918
• Chapter 2: CONTROVERSY A: WAS GERMANY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRST WORLD WAR?
  Including – The Great Powers and their interests; Weltpolitik and Flottenpolitik; European diplomacy, 1900–14; Germany-blaming interpretations; ‘shared guilt’ interpretations; overview of Germany’s responsibility for the outbreak of war
• Chapter 3: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1919–29
  Including – The Spartacist Revolt, 1919; the Weimar Constitution; crisis and survival 1919–24; Stresemann and stabilisation, 1923–9; Weimar culture and society; the ‘golden years’ of the Weimar Republic
• Chapter 4: THE RISE OF THE NAZIS
  Including – The origins of the NSDAP; the Nazi breakthrough; presidential government, 1930–3; the seizure of power, 1933
• Chapter 5: CONTROVERSY B: HOW POPULAR AND EFFICIENT WAS THE NAZI REGIME, 1933–9?
  Including – An evaluation of how popular the Nazi regime was; resistance to Nazism; consent and conformity; interpretations of the Nazi state
• Chapter 6: LIFE IN WARTIME GERMANY, 1939–45
  Including – Morale, opposition and resistance; the war economy; the Holocaust
• Chapter 7: EXAM SKILLS
• Chapter 8: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
• Index