OCR AS history.: (Dictatorship and democracy in Germany, 1933-63)

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CONTENTS:

Section 1: How effectively did Hitler establish and consolidate Nazi authority 1933-45?

Aims of the Nazis

Nazi admission to power in 1933

Nazi consolidation of power

Hitler and government

The Police State

Resistance

Exam focus

Section 2: To what extent did the Nazis transform German society?

Changes in society

Women and the family

The Churches

Propaganda and control

'Racial purity'

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism: genocide

Exam focus

Section 3: To what extent and in what ways did communism transform the GDR?

Potsdam and the establishment of the Soviet zone

The consolidation of communism under the SED

The Berlin Blockade and the emergence of the GDR

Economic change in the GDR

Social change in the GDR

The Berlin Wall

Exam focus

Section 4: How far did Western democratic structures succeed in the Federal Republic?

The Western zones 1945-9

The West German Constitution

Political parties

The Western economy

Western integration

Social changes and Adenauer's decline

Exam focus