Unit 14: Paper 2 — Emergence and Development of Democratic States (1848–2000)
Topic 14.2: Development of democratic states Questions
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Which feature of the Weimar Constitution most directly produced weak, short-lived coalition governments?
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Which German party is described as a model of the modern mass party?
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Which US law, passed in 1935 as part of the New Deal, created the first federal pensions and unemployment insurance?
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In which years did the Weimar Republic exist as a democratic state?
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What did West Germany call the workers it invited from countries such as Italy and Turkey from 1955 to power its booming economy?
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Analyse the role of internal abuses of power as a challenge to democracy in the United States.
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Which institutions combined to hold President Nixon to account during the Watergate scandal?
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Examine the role of the judiciary and judicial review in one democratic state.
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Evaluate the importance of constitutional structures in explaining the stability of one democratic state.
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What was the main feature of the electoral system used for the Weimar Reichstag?
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Analyse the importance of Article 48 in the weakening of Weimar democracy.
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To what extent did the Federal Republic of Germany's constitution succeed in correcting the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic?
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Examine the ways in which immigration policy shaped the social policies of one democratic state.
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To what extent did electoral systems determine the party systems of two democratic states, each chosen from a different region?
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Examine the reasons why one democratic state expanded the economic and social role of government in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Which two health-care programmes were created by Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society?
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Analyse the reasons why the Weimar constitution produced political instability.
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To what extent was economic crisis, rather than the strength of leadership, responsible for the collapse of one democratic state?
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Discuss the view that public trust was the decisive factor in whether a democracy survived the challenges of the twentieth century.
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Compare and contrast the constitutions and institutions of two democratic states, each chosen from a different region.
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