Summary 1 - Germany before 1918 (The Second Reich) Flashcards by Lewis Scholes

Who was Germany ruled by till 1918?

A kaiser a hereditary monarch

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What was the elected parliament known as?

Reichstag

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What did the reichstag not control?

The government

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Who were appointed by the kaiser?

The chancellor/ministers and government

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What type of state was Germany?

Semi-absolutist state

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Who was the economic power in the hands of?

Prussian landowners

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Who were the junkers?

Aristocracy who dominated German state and key postions in army/civil service/govt

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History-Germany (188 decks)

Summary 1 - Germany before 1918 (The Second Reich)

Summary 1 - Germany and the First World War

Summary 1 - Revolution from above-October 1918

Summary 1 - Peace Note

Summary 1 - Revolution from below-November 1918

Summary 1 - Left Wing threats

Summary 1 - Ebert-Groener Pact

Summary 1 - The new Weimar Constitution

Summary 1 - Concerns of new Weimar Republic

Summary 1 - Voting using proportional representation

Summary 1 - Survival of undemocratic constitutions

Summary 1 - Treaty of Versailles

Summary 1 - Political impacts of the treaty of versailles

Summary 2 - Economic instability 1919 -1923 - The legacy of the Kiaserreich

Summary 2 - The impact of reparations

Summary 2 - The occupation of the Ruhr

Summary 2 - Causes of hyperinflation

Summary 2 - Effects of hyperinflation

Summary 2 - The problems with coalition government

Summary 2 - Support for democracy and political parties

Summary 2 - Threats from the left to the Weimar Republic - The Spartacist Revolt

Summary 2 - How serious was the threat from the left?

Summary 2 - The Kapp Putsch - 1920

Summary 2 - Political violence

Summary 2 - How serious was the Munich Putsch to the Weimar government?

Summary 3 - Gustav Stresemann

Summary 3 - Stabilising the German economy

Summary 3 - Reparations and the Dawes Plan

Summary 3 - The reparations issue and the young plan

Summary 3 - The extent of economic recovery 1925-1929

Summary 3 - Limits to the economic recovery 1925-1929

Summary 3 - Social and cutural developments 1924-1928 - Social welfare reform

Summary 3 - Living Standards and lifestyles

Summary 3 - Position of Women

Summary 3 - Young people

Summary 3 - Education

Summary 3 - Youth Groups

Summary 3 - Development of arts in culture in the Weimar Republic

Summary 4 - Reichstag elections and coalition governments 1924-1928

Summary 4 - Coalition governments

Summary 4 - The development of political parties

Summary 4 - The election of Hindenburg as President in 1925

Summary 4 - Evidence that 1924 - 1929 was a golden era

Summary 4 - Evidence of continuing weaknesses and problems between 1924 and 1929

Summary 4 - Stresemann's foreign policy - policy of fulfilment

Summary 4 - The Locarno Pact 1925

Summary 4 - Aspects of Stresemann's policy of fulfilment

Summary 4 - Successes of Stresemann's foreign policy

Summary 4 - Weaknesses of Stresemann's foreign policy

Summary 5 - Why did the government not act decisively to tackle the economic slump?

Summary 5 - The economic impact of the depression

Summary 5 - The social impact of the depression

Summary 5 - The political impact of the depression

Summary 5 - The collapse of the Grand Coalition

Summary 5 - Heinrich Brϋning’s government (March 1930-June 1932)

Summary 5 - September 1930 election - ‘a political earthquake’

Summary 5 - Growing political violence

Summary 5 - Who did the Nazi's appeal to?

Summary 5 - The appeal of Nazism : Why did people vote for the Nazi's?

Summary 5 - How did the Nazi's achieve electoral success?

Summary 5 - The appeal of communism between 1928 and 1932

Summary 6 - March 1932 : Presidential election

Summary 6 - Bruning's economic policies

Summary 6 - The fall of Brϋning’s government (March 1930-May 1932)

Summary 6 - Von Papen's governments: June 1932 - December 1932

Summary 6 -The July 1932 election

Summary 6 - The November 1932 election

Summary 6 - The role of backstairs intrigue

Summary 6 - Von Schleicher’s Government December 1932-January 1933

Summary 6 - Were the Nazis on the verge of decline when Hitler was appointed Chancellor?

Summary 6 - Was there an alternative to Hitler - A more authoritarian government

Summary 6 - Was there an alternative to Hitler - The survival of parliamentary democracy

Summary 6 - Was there an alternative to Hitler - Communism

Summary 6 - The death of Weimar democracy

Summary 6 - The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship January-March 1933

Summary 6 - The role of violence in the rise of the Nazis

Summary 6 - The Reichstag Fire - 27th February 1933

Summary 6 - The March 1933 election

Summary 6 - The end of democracy - The Enabling Act

Summary 7 - A timeline of the key events in the establishment of a dictatorship?

Summary 7-Government and Administrative Changes

Summary 7- Night of the Long Knives

Summary 7 - The death of Hindenburg

Summary 7 - The police system

Summary 7 - The Schutzstaffel (SS)

Summary 7 - The Sicherheitsdienst (SD) – an offshoot of the SS

Summary 7 - The Gestapo

Summary 7 - The courts and justice system

Summary 7 - Opposition and non-conformity

Summary 7 - Political resistance

Summary 7 - Resistance by the Church

Summary 7 - Resistance from the Protestant Church

Summary 7 - Resistance by the Catholic Church

Summary 7 - Resistance from young people

Summary 7 - Resistance by the elite

Summary 7 - Propaganda

Summary 7 - Methods of propaganda

Summary 7 - How effective was propaganda?

Summary 7 - The Hitler Myth

Summary 7 - The Nazi State and totalitarian control

Summary 7 - Was the Nazi regime totalitarian

Summary 8 - Nazi economic policies

Summary 8 - Recovery from the Depression

Summary 8 - Rearmament and the creation of a war economy

Summary 8 - Nazi policy towards management and the industrial elite

Summary 8 - Living standards: Did the German people benefit from Nazi rule?

Summary 8 - How successful were Nazi economic policies by 1939

Summary 8 - Nazi social policy - Volkgemeinschaft

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards young people - schools

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards young people - universities

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards young people - Hitler Youth

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards young people - The League of German Girls (BDM)

Summary 8 - How successful were Nazi youth policies?

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards women

Summary 8 - How successful were Nazi policies towards women?

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards workers

Summary 8 - The DAF (The German labour Front)

Summary 8 - The KDF (Strength Through Joy)

Summary 8 - How successful were Nazi policies towards workers

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards churches

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards the Protestant Church

Summary 8 - Nazi policies towards the Catholic Church

Summary 8 - How successful were Nazi policies towards the Churches?

Summary 8 - A summary of Nazi social policies

Summary 9 - The radicalisation of the State

Summary 9 - Nazi racial ideology - Social Darwinism

Summary 9 - Nazi racial ideology - Volksgemeinschaft

Summary 9 - Nazi racial policies - Lebensraum

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards the mentally and physically disabled - Sterilisation

Summary 9- Policies towards the mentally ill and disabled - Euthanasia

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards asocials

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards homosexuals

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards religious sects

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards Roma and Sinti

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards the Jews 1933-1937

Summary 9 - 1st April 1933: The boycott of Jewish shops

Summary 9 - April 1933: The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards Jews in other professions

Summary 9 - The Nuremberg Laws 1935

Summary 9 - Discrimination towards the Jews

Summary 9 - A summary of Nazi policies towards the Jews between 1933 and 1937

Summary 10 - The development of anti-semitic policies 1938-1940

Summary 10 - Kristallnacht

Summary 10 - Emigration

Summary 10 - The impact of war against Poland

Summary 10 - The Madagascar Plan

Summary 10 - Deportations and Ghettos

Summary 10 - Policies towards Jews 1940-41

Summary 10 - The Einsatzgruppen (‘Special Groups’)

Summary 10 - The Final Solution

Summary 10 - Operation Reinhard (Autumn 1941 - Autumn 1943)

Summary 10 - The Wannsee Conference January 1942

Summary 10 - The 'Final Solution'

Summary 10 - The Camp System

Summary 10 - Jewish resistance

Summary 10 - The death marches

Summary 10 - Was Hitler responsible for the persecution of the Jews and the Final Solution?

Summary 10 - Were many ordinary Germans responsible for the 'Final Solution?'

Summary 10 - Was it the nature of the Nazi State that allowed the Holocaust to happen?

Summary 10 - Was the war responsible for the Holocaust?

Summary 10 - Overall summary and some key facts

Summary 11-The impact of war on Germany - Rationing

Summary 11 - The use of propaganda during the war

Summary 11 - Phase one of the war - Blitzkrieg

Summary 11 - Phase two of the war - The spreading of war

Summary 11 - Phase three of the war - The turning of the tide

Summary 11 - Phase four of the war - Total war and defeat

Summary 11 - The impact of bombing on morale

Summary 11 - The end of the war and German casualties

Summary 11 - The changing impact of war on the elite and workers

Summary 11 - The changing impact of war on women

Summary 11 - The changing impact of war on the youth

Summary 12 - Mobilising Germany's economy for war

Summary 12 - The work of Albert Speer

Summary 12 - The economic impact of the Allied bombing

Summary 12 - Mobilisation of the workforce and the use of foreign labour

Summary 12 - The use of foreign resources

Summary 12 - Refugees

Summary 12 - Resistance during the war

Summary 12 - Opposition from the working class youth

Summary 12 - Opposition from the swing youth

Summary 12 - The White Rose Group

Summary 12 - Opposition from the Roman Catholic Church

Summary 12 - Opposition from the Protestant Church

Summary 12 - Communist Opposition

Summary 12 - Opposition to racial policies

Summary 12 - Opposition from within the army and civilian critics

Summary 12 - Assassination attempts that were made on Hitler's life

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