Welcome! • Assay and Timur – explain what you found out from your

homework to each other. Then using pp. 3-5 of your green book fill out the table.

• Expectations – attendance, homework, History Clinic on a Tuesday • Plan of action this year – Germany 35%, Coursework on Ireland

15%, Africa 25%, Britain 1945-1990 25% • Results – will speak to individually and about targets for this year • Folders – handbooks, dividers, wallets • Books (only to those who have returned all of the year 12 books)

• First divider – Where did power lie in the Second Reich?

Germany 1900-1945

• Second Reich • WWI• Weimar Germany• Nazi Germany

• First divider – Where did power lie in the Second Reich?

How did Germany’s unification affect its future?

What does this map show you about Germany in

1840?

• Prussia expands due its wealth from industrialising rapidly in the mid 19th C

• Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Who remembers what the significant of

this was from the Berlin trip?

What does this mean for Germany?

Characteristics of Imperial Germany

Characteristics of Imperial Germany

A level note-taking Key Question or issue

Detail: Main points (possibly by paragraphs)

Summary relating to key question/issue.

A level note-taking Key Question or issue: Characteristics of Imperial Germany

Detail: Main points (possibly by paragraphs)

Summary relating to key question/issue.

How did Germany’s unification affect its future?

Key points

•Late unification (Italy too)

•Hyper-nationalism•Prussian dominance•Used to one strong traditional leader –

Kaiser•Used to a mythological heroic Germanic figure –

Bismarck

•Makes introducing democracy very difficult. •Makes Hitler very

popular.

What was the Wilhemine Constitution like? C aim – to explain how autocratic and democratic the Wilhemine Constitution was overallB aim – to assess the overall nature of the Wilhemine Constitution A/A* aim – to assess the overall nature of the Wilhemine Constitution and explain what this suggests about the Third Reich

What is happening in this picture?

How does Prussia seem?

How would Germany seem?

What kind of constitution may they have?

Check – Constitution

Constitution Kaiser Chancellor & imperial government

Federal Council (Bundesrat)

Imperial Parliament (Reichstag)

Define the role that each section played in the German constitution using pp. 3-5 Access to History

Ext. Can you add anything from pp. 3-7 of Edexcel?

Close your books and notes and sort these into a diagram showing the German constitution. Add annotations where you can.

Elected by all males over 25 years in a

secret ballot. Equal weighting of votes.

Elements of democracy in the Second Reich

Elements which show there was a lack of democracy in the Second Reich

Using your tables...‘The constitution of the Second Reich was fundamentally undemocratic in

nature.’ How far do you agree with this opinion?

• What do you think...? • C – Decide how democratic the Second Republic was and back it

up using example. – E.g. The ................ Shows that the Second Reich’s constitution was fundamentally

democratic/undemocratic in nature. For example............................... In this way this shows that the Second Reich was ............................. because........................................

• B – Decide how democratic the Second Republic was and think of three convincing lines of argument to show this. Write this as three separate paragraphs with supporting detail.

• A/A* - Decide how democratic the Second Republic was and think of three convincing lines of argument to show this. Use detail to back it up and make sure you persuade the reader that the other interpretations are incorrect.

Hwk – Due Thursday

• Finish off your writing from this lesson • Read and make notes on ‘The Wilhemine

Political System’ pp. 19-22 ready to discuss these questions next lesson. – Did Kaiser Wilhelm II have a great impact on the

political system in the Second Reich? – Did Kaiser Wilhelm II fundamentally undermine

democracy in the Second Reich?

• Read the additional reading if you wish