Economic crisis and recovery
What Economic crisis and recovery means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The Depression caused mass unemployment, fatally undermining the Weimar Republic, while Nazi peacetime recovery relied on state intervention, public works and rearmament.
Hyperinflation in 1923 tested the new democracy, and after the Wall Street Crash economic crisis eroded parliamentary government.
Topics that use Economic crisis and recovery
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – only) The Nazi experiment, 1929–1949 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Political and governmental change, 1918–89 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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