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Edexcel A2 Unit 3 Option D1: From Kaiser to Fuhrer: Germany 1900-45
by Adam Bloomfield
Enable students to succeed in their exam with From Kaiser to Fuhrer. 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 Fuhrer: 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
Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option A1: Henry VIII: Authority, Nation and Religion, 1509-40
by Sarah Moffatt and Adam Bloomfield
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Henry VIII: Authority, Nation and Religion. This study aid contains the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 2 Option A1, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with examiner commentary on how to secure higher grades.
Henry VIII: Authority, Nation and Religion, 1509-40 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option A1 examination, including:
* Chapter 1: THE QUEST FOR INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE
Including - Foreign policy ambitions and aims; war and victory in France and Scotland 1513-14; early successes in diplomacy; the Hapsburg-Valois conflict; evaluating the effectiveness of foreign policy
* Chapter 2:THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT, 1509-29
Including - Structure of Henry's Government; the rise of Thomas Wolsey; Wolsey and the justice system; Wolsey and the strengthening of royal finances; Wolsey's relationship with the King, nobility and parliament; Wolsey and the Church; Wolsey's fall from power
* Chapter 3: CHANGING RELATIONS WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Including - The annulment strategy; the Reformation Parliament; Submission of the Clergy; establishment of the Royal Supremacy and the break with Rome 1532-4
* Chapter 4: RELIGIOUS CHANGE FROM 1529
Including - Factors influencing religious change; opposition, including the Pilgrimage of Grace; Thomas Cromwell and the encouragement of Protestant ideas; dissolution of the monasteries; the retreat from reform; the fall of Thomas Cromwell; was the English Reformation political or religious?
* Chapter 5: ROYAL POWER IN 1540
Including - The nature and extent of royal power
* Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS
* Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
* Index