Anyone doing EDEXCEL GCSE History ?

[maj232]

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I have a history exam on tuesday, paper 1 on germany and paper 2 is on medicine.

Im okay with Medicine but im a lil worried about germany.

I need help with hitlers rise to power and the weak opposition to the nazis, if you have any info or resources/sites please share.

Jazakallahu Khair

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[Ali.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler

Wikipedia is very useful, but bear in mind it is written by people like you and me, so it is never always reliable.

[Mysterious Uk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler

Wikipedia is very useful, but bear in mind it is written by people like you and me, so it is never always reliable.

Yeh exactly,i would not recommend wikipedia. At my university all the lecturers despise the website because it is so unreliable and not academic.

Best to stick with books, ask the teacher to recommend books for the particular subject u need help with.

Good luck :thumbs_up

[wildkat]

Well i did OCR history a couple of years back so i do know a bit about Germany and stuff.. I actually enjoyed this area, thought it was the easiest!

Rise to power: starting in 1923 with the munich putsch, where hitler decided to take over germany by force but it backfired on him and he and his fellow nazis were sent to prison. Tis wasnt all bad because his trial was very well publicised so all of germany knew who he was and blah blah. Time in prison also gave him time to write his book "mein kampf" (my struggle) in which he wrote down all his ideas for a perfect Germany and planned a legitimate takeover of the country.

Following the wall street crash in 1929, germany was in a bad state. People were angry that the weimar republic pulled out of the war and the 1919 treaty of Versailles brought great shame and huge debts upon Germany. Millions of people were unemployed and starving. Hitler gave powerful speeches which had meanings and promised the german people that he would abolish the treaty, recover and expand german territory and restore the country to its former glory. This was all the people wanted to hear and he gained much support.

As for opposition, well they were no match.
His first attempt was the reichstag fire in 1933. This was a success for the Nazis because it allowed hitler, who was chancellor at the time to use emergency powers to arrest communists, frame them for starting the fire and break up their meetings which frightened their voters.
The second attempt was in 1934. within a year of coming to power, many of hitlers potential opponents had left Germany or were sent to concentration camps run by the SS. Hitler became suspicious of the SA and their Earsnt Rohm and felt that he would try and take assasinate him so one weekend he took Rohm and 400 others and killed them. this purge became the "night of long knives". the result of this was that the SA never regained its power and followed direct orders from hitler and the SS. Many members bacame absorbed by the army and the SS.

Wow, cant believe I still remember this stuff!! Well I hope this helps somehow.. Good luck!

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[maj232]

jazakallahu khairan ^
that helped a lot

[S_87]

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ooh i did history ages ago and those were the two subjects we did! i loved hist medicine, it was really good.
cant remember anything significant about the nazis but hope you do well

[jzcasejz]

as-Salaamu'alaykum Bro

Check this link out: http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/cu...seedsLinks.htm

^ I remember we studied this in quite some detail for AS History. That site should have some useful stuff inshaAllaah, I hope. :X

[maj232]

jazakallahu khairan bro, that site looks pretty useful

[Nájlá]

bro u can go on this site to revise i go there when i revise for my GCSE. its very useful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/