History A-Level
Structural weakness
What Structural weakness means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Structural weakness
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Reference: AQA
The economic recovery was dangerously reliant on short-term foreign capital, leaving it vulnerable.
Topics that use Structural weakness
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The 'Golden Age' of the Weimar Republic, 1924–1928 (AQA A-Level)
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