WEEKLY GRINDS
Weekly grinds occur every Tuesday and Thursday
TOPIC 3 - DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRAcy
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- Grinds will be interactive, including LIVE marking; because nothing beats a student who fully understands how the CM and OE marks work.
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Week 1
Introduction to course
Fascism: what is it?
Reasons for the rise of fascism in Europe
Post war problems in Italy and Germany
Week 2
Who was Mussolini
March on Rome
Mussolini’s dictatorship
Mussolini's economic policy
Mussolini's foreign policy and downfall
Week 3
Growth of Nazi party in Germany
Weimar Republic; democracy in crisis.y
Munich Putsch and his wilderness years.y
Wall St. Crashy
Nazis; electoral success: Hitler becomes Chancellory
The Enabling Act
Week 4
The nature and extent Totalitarian dictatorship in Germany Terror and Night of Long Knives Economic policy
Week 5
Hitler’s Foreign Policy
World War 2
Technology of War
Week 6
Case Study: The Nuremberg Rallies
Purpose, nature, and extent of Nazi Propaganda
KPs : Leni Riefenstahl Charlie Chaplin, Bing Crosby.
Week 7
The nature and extent of Nazi antisemitism
The Holocaust
Church State relations in Italy and Germany
Week 8
Lenin’s life and influences
The nature of his revolution
The Russian Civil War
War Communism/NEP
Lenin’s death and legacy.
Week 9
Stalin takes power.
Stalin’s Economic Policy
Collectivization / 5 Year Plans
The nature of Propaganda in the USSR
Week 10
Case Study: Stalin and the Show Trials
Stalin unleashes the Great Purge.
Nature and conduct of the 3 Trials
Secret Trial of the Red Army
Consequences
Week 11
Economic and Social problems in Britain in the inter-war years
Case Study: The Jarrow Crusade 1936
The causes, course, and consequences of the Jarrow Crusade
KP John Maynard Keynes
Week 12
Key essays for Dictatorship and Democracy
Picking the right question
What examiners are looking for.
Exam technique for LC 2023 / 2024