History A-Level
Gleichschaltung (coordination of state and society)
What Gleichschaltung (coordination of state and society) means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Coordination seen in administrative changes such as the abolition of state assemblies and the purging of the civil service.
Topics that use Gleichschaltung (coordination of state and society)
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933–1939 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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