History GCSE
Enabling Act
What Enabling Act means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Enabling Act
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Passed in March 1933, it gave Hitler the power to make laws without the Reichstag's approval for four years, effectively ending Weimar democracy.
Topics that use Enabling Act
- Option 31: Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39 - 1 The creation of a dictatorship, 1933–34 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Army oath of allegiance
- Consolidation of power
- Elimination of opposition
- Führer
- Night of the Long Knives
- Reichstag Fire
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