Nazi Germany: Nazi Economic Policy

PowerPoint (with 6 slides) and two Word Documents that examines the purpose and success of Nazi economic policies in Germany between 1933 and 1939, considering the contributions of Hjalmar Schacht and Hermann Goering.

Activities include

• Starter activity in which pupils match leading Nazis with their role in Government. This should be based on prior learning but will depend on the order you have covered the course. Feel free to edit.
• Matching task on Nazi economic aims with an explanation of their purpose.
• Reading and comprehension activity on Nazi economic policy in which pupils highlight successes and failures before adding the information to the relevant area of a table in which each column is a different economic aim.
• Ranking activity on which economic aims were most successfully achieved by Schacht and Goering respectively.
• Colour coding grid activity on positive and negative impacts of Nazi economic policy on Germans.
• Line of continuum on the most to least beneficial consequences of Nazi economic policies.

Designed for the teaching of Edexcel iGCSE History 4HI1 Paper 1 Depth Study 3 Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918-45.

Lesson Length: 1 hour depending on pace.

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