GCSE History Revision Activities
Germany 1918 - 1945
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
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Positive features
Weaknesses
Hyperinflation
Invasion of
the Ruhr
The November
Criminals
The Weimar
Constitution
What problems faced the Weimar
Republic between 1918–23?
The Spartacists
The Treaty of Versailles
Kapp Putsch
Political
Violence
Effects
Terms
LAMB
Munich Putsch
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Kellogg Briand Pact
Young Plan
Locarno Pact
The League of
Nations
How successful was the recovery
of the Weimar Republic under
Stresemann 1924–29
Dawes Plan
Dealing with hyperinflation
Underlying problems
Stresemann’s role
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Unemployment
The rise of political
extremists
Economic
effects
Social
effects
How did the Great Depression
affect Germany 1929–33?
The failure of the Weimar
Politicians
Wall Street
Crash
4
25 Point plan
The role of
the SA
The founding of the
Nazi Party
How did Hitler develop
the Nazi Party 1919–23?
Reorganisation
Hitler becomes
leader
The aims of the Nazi Party
Hitler’s career
before 1919
First World War
5
The SS
Finances
Hitler reorganises
the Nazi Party
Goebbels and
propaganda
Mein Kampf
Changing
organisation
Why did the Munich Putsch fail
and what happened to the Nazis in
the lean years 1923–29?
Why did Nazi support
decline after 1923?
Events
Causes
The Munich
Putsch
Hitler on trial
6
Von Papen
President
Hindenburg
Von Schleicher
Key Events 1932 - 33
The Wall Street Crash
and Great Depression
Bruning’s
government
How did Hitler come to power in
January 1933?
Middle Classes
Who supported the Nazis
and why?
Nazi
Propaganda
The SA and
increased violence
Hitler’s
Appeal
Farmers
Unemployed
7
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 1933 - 34?
Banning of
Trade Unions
The Night of the Long
Knives
Banning of
political parties
Effects
Events
Munich Putsch
8
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?
The Gestapo
The SS
Censorship
Nazi use of
propaganda
Goebbels and
the Ministry of
Propaganda
Control of the media,
culture, sports and arts
9
Why the Nazis
wanted to control
young people
Nazis and the family
Hitler Youth
movements
Controlling
the youth
Nazi education in schools
Nazi education in
universities
Women and
work
What were the Nazis’ policies to
control women and the young?
Women
Education for
girls
Expectations for women
10
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?
Changing standards
of living
Wages
Rearming
Germany
11
Von Stauffenberg
The White Rose Group
The Army
Who opposed the Nazis and how
successful were they?
Pastor Niemoller
The Edelweiss
Pirates
12
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
Extermination
Master Race/ Aryans
“Inferior” races
Destruction
Through Work
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January 2012 Exam
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