AQA A-Level History Democracy & Nazism: Lesson 11&12 - Coalition problems and Uprisings

2 Lessons looking at the political problems faced by the Weimar Republic in their early years.

There is some source work and then pupils study the idea of proportional representation and coalition governments. Class then look at the makeup of the first Reichstag and how the political situation fluctuated in Germany.

There is then a focus on the risings of the Left and the Right in Germany, supported by videos and tasks on both the Spartacist Uprising and the Kapp Putsch. When looking at the Kapp Putsch the pupils also analyse a primary source (attached).

Lesson finishes by focussing on the continued political violence existing in Germany…leading the way for the Munich Putsch

Info slides are printable from ppt and the lesson makes use of the Oxford AQA History for A Level: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945 textbook.

Freikorps info shee and Kapp sheet attached.