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        • 10. Assessment 2 - Board game
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      • 1.4 Defining legitimacy
      • 2.1 Emergence of Nation States
      • 2.2 Applying Sovereignty
      • 2.3 Social Contract
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      • 11. Politicisation of Human Rights
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      • 1.1 Defining Development
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      • 2. Factors Affecting Development
      • Political Factors Affecting Development
      • 3.1 Models of development
      • 3.2 The Capability approach
      • 3.3 Approaches for Developing Economy
      • 3.4 Approaches for Developing Society
      • 4.1 Globalisation and development
      • 4.2 Sustainable Development
      • Interesting video resources
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        • Types of conflict
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        • Justifications of violence
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        • 2. Greed and grievance
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        • Third party intervention
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How did Hitler Maintain Power?

1. How did Hitler Consolidate Power 1933-34?

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Between 1933-34 there was a series of events that led Germany from having elected a Hitler Chancellor to being subject to a Hitler dictatorship. Download the sheet below for an overview:
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a) Key Event 1: How did Hitler Secure a LEGAL DICTATORSHIP? The Reichstag Fire

This lesson, we will be using a short role play to explore the events surrounding the Reichstag Fire. We have already seen how it helped Hitler to consolidate power, but that does not necessarily mean that the Nazis were behind it.
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Extension/Home Learning:

​Read at least the first two sections of this article and make notes explaining the impact that the Reichstag had on Hitler's Rise to Power
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a) Key Event 2: The NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES

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b) Making a judgment: HOW DID HITLER CONSOLIDATE POWER?

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Key words:
Reich, Fuhrer, the State, the states, Trade Union, Civil Service, Article 48, KPD, Dissolve, Hindenburg, Papen, Reichstag
CLASS ACTIVITY
  1. You will be given one of the key events between January 1933 August 1934 - the period commonly known as the 'conolidation of power'.  You need to spend a short time researching the event - try to identify four or five key points about the event (details, reasons etc). Write your explanation points on a piece of card, but do NOT name the event - instead, write the number in the back of the title you have been given on the top right. 
  2. The class passes the explanation cards around and tries to decide what each card is about, giving each a tentative name (use the number to identify a card).
  3. The headings are now on the board. Ask students to come up and Blu Tac the correct explanation underneath.
  4. Then reorganise the headings and explanations into correct chronological order.
  5. Transfer the headings and explanations to stations on desks. Assign each student a station. Give them 2 minutes at each station to write down the notes in the timeline frame. Say “move” after 2 minutes and each student moves to the left until all the events are written down.
  6. In small groups, you will now be given a proposition to attack and defend.

c) Analysis and Historiography: DID HITLER CONSOLIDATE POWER THROUGH LEGAL MEANS?
Do the following activity which looks at whether Hitler was cautions or radical in his moves to maintain power
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We are going to use an article by University of Cambridge professor Richard Evans to analyse this question. You will be given a section each to review and summarise on your own. You will then go into groups to compare your answers before sharing with the whole group.

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Step 1: Download the notes frame below, make notes on your section directly onto it.
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Step 2: Share your findings by copying and pasting the best into this document.
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​Attack and Defend the following propositions using the structure:

- Evidence to support
- Alternate view points
- Central Line of Argument


HITLER CAME TO POWER THROUGH LEGAL MEANS
​ONCE HE CAME TO POWER IN JANUARY 1933, NOTHING COULD STOP HITLER DOING WHATEVER HE WANTED
WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR, HITLER ESTABLISHED COMPLETE POWER OVER ALL THE INSTITUTIONS OF GERMANY
HITLER WAS PREPARED TO COMPROMISE ON AREAS NOT CRUCIAL TO HIM



2. How did Hitler Maintain Power after 1934?

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a) Getting an overview: HOW WAS NAZI GERMANY GOVERNED?
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b) DID HITLER MAINTAIN POWER BY BUILDING A TERROR STATE?
Hitler had many henchmen, of course, but below are three key figures whose careers shed light on one method by which Hitler governed.
You will be assigned one henchman to review in detail. You may do some additional research too. 
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c) DID HITLER AND THE NAZIS STAY IN POWER BECAUSE OF ACHIEVEMENTS (E.G IN FOREIGN POLICY AND FULL EMPLOYMENT)?
i) Foreign Policy Resources:

STARTER SPEECH BUBBLE RESOURCES

HITE TIMELINE (students to identify three phases in timeline)

SCANNED READING WALSH & MACLEAVY

Students work in the master doc above.

EXTENSION:
NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY DOCUMENTARY
​QUESTION FRAME FOR DOCUMENTARY
ii) Economic Policy
Hitler's economic achievements have relevance to why he stayed in power. They could also be specifically examined as a separate question in terms of how successful they were in an essay on domestic policy - we may therefore revisit this later.
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d) DID HITLER STAY IN POWER DUE TO PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP?
i) How does Propaganda work?

Listen to the podcast below about how propaganda works in general. Use the simple note taking frame to make some basic notes.
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ii) Propaganda in Nazi Germany
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iii) Getting some details
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e) WAS THERE ANY OPPOSITION IN NAZI GERMANY?
The aim here is to be able to write an essay on the extent of oppostion that Hitler faced throughout his time in power. Why was it so little? How did it change over time?
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​1. Watch the documentary on the Opposition to Hitler.
As you watch, make notes unsing the Cornell Frame as - make sure you follow all the steps (notes, then titles/questions in the margin, summary at the end)..
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2. Review the Niemoller powerpoint (in active history) and discuss with each other. Or look at Niemoller's poem and discuss its meaning.

3. Download the 'OPPOSITION WORKSHEET'. Complete the activites at the end of the document that are called 'lessons' - you should complete numbers 1-3 at least.
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​4. Home Learning: Use the 'Dead Fish Planning Frame' opposite to plan an answer to this question:
Assess the importance of the use of force and economic policies in the maintenance of power of one authoritarian or single-party ruler.
You will use the material we have covered on the consolidation and maintenance of power to complete this plan - this is everything from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933 that is related to economics and use of force (your CLA here is likely to be a judgment between which of the two was more significant).
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f) SUMMARY/COMPARISON
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