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Enable students to succeed in their exam with From Kaiser to Führer. 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 Führer: 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 1914Including – 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, 1919–29Including – 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 NAZISIncluding – 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, 1939–45Including – Morale, opposition and resistance; the war economy; the Holocaust• Chapter 7: EXAM SKILLS• Chapter 8: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS• Index