History A-Level
State-sponsored violence
What State-sponsored violence means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of State-sponsored violence
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Reichkristallnacht, a state-sponsored pogrom in November 1938 causing mass arrests and the destruction of Jewish property.
Topics that use State-sponsored violence
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The Racial State, 1933–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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