Resistance and conformity
What Resistance and conformity means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Nonconformity from the 1950s, when writers, artists and musicians explored forbidden themes, set against required styles such as Socialist Realism.
Opposition and resistance persisted, ranging from the White Rose group to the July 1944 bomb plot, though it remained fragmented.
Topics that use Resistance and conformity
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – only) The Nazi experiment, 1929–1949 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Control of the people, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Cold War division
- Consolidation of power
- Constitutional collapse
- Constitutional development
- Continuity and change in control methods
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