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Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946
Quick questions on Hitler's rise to power 1919-1933: HSC Modern History Core Study
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What are long-term Weimar weaknesses?Show answer
The Weimar constitution (August 1919) used proportional representation, producing fragmented parliaments (around 30 parties contested 1928 elections). Article 48 gave the President emergency powers to rule by decree. The Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) supplied the founding grievance, exploited as the Dolchstosslegende (stab in the back) by the nationalist right. Hyperinflation (1923) wiped out middle-class savings.
What is the Nazi voter base?Show answer
The Nazi vote was disproportionately Protestant, rural, small-town, and middle-class (Mittelstand). The KPD held urban industrial workers; the Catholic Centre Party held the Catholic vote. The Nazis combined a youth movement (the Hitler Youth, founded 1926), a paramilitary (SA, 400,000 by 1932), and a women's organisation.
What is q1?Show answer
Source A is the manifesto of the 25 Points of the NSDAP (February 1920) demanding abolition of the Treaty of Versailles and union of all Germans. Using Source A and your own knowledge, explain how the early Nazi programme attempted to win mass support. [5 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the extent to which the Great Depression was the decisive factor in Hitler's rise to power between 1929 and 1933. [25 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the views of Alan Bullock and Ian Kershaw on Hitler's personal role in the Nazi seizure of power. [10 marks]
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