Source questions 3.1

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Source questions 3.1

Weimar Republic

1. Open the word document 'Source Questions 3.1'
2. Look at sources 1 and 2
3. "Use sources 1 & 2 to explain why life was so difficult for people in Germany in the early 1920s. Use historical facts and information to support your answers"

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Use sources 1 & 2 to explain why life was so difficult for people in Germany in the early 1920s. Use historical facts and information to support your answers

In source 1 I can see a very long line of people waiting to buy a product that normally would be thrown away. This shows that there were food shortages in Germany during this period otherwise the meat would have been thrown away. In source 2 children are playing with money like it’s a toy. This is because of hyperinflation. Money was worthless because the government had printed money in order to pay reparations to the allies after world war 1 and also because the French had occupied the ruhr gebiet which was the German industrial region.

Fascism

1. Open the word document 'Source Questions 3.1'
2. Read source 3
3. "What characteristics of facism can you see in the source?"

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What characteristics of facism can you see in the source?

• Nationalism – the idea that your country and nationality must be the most important thing in your life: “1. He loves to work for the pride of working for the Nation. 2. He believes faith in the nation always triumphs over selfishness and thinking only of yourself”
• The idea that there should be one strong leader: “3. He believes that disobedience is a crime against the order of the Leader.”
• Totalitarian – there can be no opposition to the party or the leader: “3. He believes that disobedience is a crime against the order of the Leader. 4. He believes that opposition is an insult to those who actually fought in the war and in the Revolution.”
• Only the party / leader knows the ‘truth’: 4. To love the truth and hate lies; 5. To love honesty and hate lies;

The Russian Revolution

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2. Read source 4
   
3. "Why did Lenin believe that democracy was a bad political system?"

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Why did Lenin believe democracy was a bad political system?

Lenin believed that democracy was controlled by the bourgeoisie who also controlled the economy. It was only there to provide the fiction that people had control over their lives: “the means of production and political power remain in the hands of the exploiters”. It was just another way of ‘exploiting’ the workers and therefore the only solution was to totally change society by getting rid of the exploiting class ‘The dictatorship of the proletariat alone can free people from the oppression of capitalism’