History A-Level
Coercion versus consent
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The regime maintained control through terror and propaganda, aiming for total societal coordination.
Topics that use Coercion versus consent
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933–1939 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Gleichschaltung (coordination of state and society)
- Legal revolution and pseudo-legality
- The role of mass media and indoctrination in a dictatorship
- The role of violence and terror in politics
- The spectrum of resistance and non-conformity
- The transition from democracy to dictatorship
- Volksgemeinschaft
- Indoctrination
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