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Contents

Understanding the Modern World

America, 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation

Expansion: Opportunities and Challenges

North America

• Geography
• Great American Desert
• Manifest Destiny

Going West

• Early American Settlers
• Mormons
  • The Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Journey
• Pioneer Migrant Farmers
• Miners

Plains Indians

• Culture and Way of Life
• Early Government Policy
• Permanent Indian Frontier
• Relationship with the Plains Indians

Conflict across America

Conflict on the Plains

• Fort Laramie Treaty
• Policy of Concentration
• The Indian Wars
  • Causes
  • Consequences
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Fetterman’s Trap

American Civil War

• Differences between North and South
• Slavery
• Westwards Expansion
• Free States Abolitionism
• Missouri Compromise
• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Social impact of the Civil War
• Economic impact of the Civil War

Aftermath of the Civil War

• 13th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Rebuilding the South
• 1866-1877
• Carpetbaggers
• Federal and State Powers

Settlement of the West

• The Homesteaders
• Why West?
• Government Actions and Laws
• Land and Railroads
• Farming Problems
  • Farming Solutions

The Resolution of the ‘Indian Problem’

• The Small Reservations Policy
• Attitudes towards Native Americans
• Battle of the Little Big Horn
• The Dawes Act
• Battle of Wounded Knee
• The Closing of the Frontier
  • The Impact on Native Americans

Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship

Germany and the growth of democracy

Ruling Germany

• Kaiser Wilhelm
• Difficulties in Ruling Germany
• Rise of Parliamentary Government
• Influence of Prussian Militarism
• Industrialisation in Germany
• Social Reform
  • The Growth of Socialism
• Navy Laws

WWI

• War Weariness
• Economic Problems caused by WWI
• Defeat in WWI
• The End of German Monarchy
• The Crisis of 1923
  • Reparations
  • The Occupation of the Ruhr
  • Hyperinflation

Weimar Democracy

• Political Change and Unrest in Germany, 1919-1923
  • Spartacists
  • Kapp Putsch
  • Munich Putsch
• Economic Recovery and Developments under Stresemann
• Gustav Stresemann
  • Reichsmark
  • Dawes Plan
  • Young Plan
  • International Impact
• Weimar Culture

Germany and the Depression

• Rise of Extremism in Germany
  • Rise of the National Socialists
    • Role of the SA
• Hitler’s Appeal to the Masses

The Failure of Weimar Democracy

• Election Results
• Franz von Papen
• President Hindenburg
• Hitler becomes Chancellor

===[[Establishing Hitler]s Dictatorship]]

• Reichstag Fire
• Enabling Act
• Elimination of Political Opposition
• Trade Unions in Germany
• Ernst Rohm
• Night of the Long Knives
• Führer

The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis

Economic Changes under the Nazis

• Economic Benefits
• Economic Drawbacks
• Employment under the Nazis
  • Public Works Programmes
• Rearmament
• Self-Sufficiency
• Economy during the War

The Impact of War on the German People

• Bombing
• Rationing
• Labour Shortages
• Refugees

Social Policy under the Nazis

• Joseph Goebbels
• Nazi Propaganda
• Censorship under the Nazis
• Nazi Culture
• Repression and the Police State
• Heinrich Himmler
• SS
• Gestapo

Opposition to the Nazis

• White Rose Group
• Swing Youth
• Edelweiss Pirates
• Stauffenberg Plot