Authoritarianism
What Authoritarianism means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The increasing concentration of power that Mussolini justified by exploiting economic recovery and foreign policy successes to manufacture popular consensus.
Rule normalised when Hindenburg increasingly relied on Article 48, bypassing the Reichstag, before the one-party Nazi State was established.
Legal and administrative changes collectively served to eliminate political opposition and secure Napoleon's authoritarian grip on France.
A tradition of ideas against which the Weimar Republic struggled to embed democratic ideas.
Topics that use Authoritarianism
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – only) The Nazi experiment, 1929–1949 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The impact of Napoleon's rule on France, 1799–1815 (AQA A-Level)
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – Mussolini and the establishment of Fascist Italy, 1922–1926 (AQA A-Level)
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