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 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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Which institutions combined to hold President Nixon to account during the Watergate scandal?
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What was the main feature of the electoral system used for the Weimar Reichstag?
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Which two health-care programmes were created by Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society?
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Under which article could the Weimar president rule by emergency decree, bypassing parliament?
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In the Federal Republic of Germany, how can the Bundestag remove a chancellor?
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In which year did President Hindenburg appoint Hitler as Chancellor of Germany?
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Which US Supreme Court case established the power of judicial review?
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Which term describes West Germany's post-war model of a free market combined with regulation and welfare?
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Which safeguard in West Germany's Basic Law allows parliament to remove a chancellor only by agreeing on a replacement at the same time?
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How did the United States Senate finally respond to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954?
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Evaluate the significance of political extremism as a challenge to democracy in Germany between 1919 and 1933.
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Evaluate the importance of the leader, as opposed to economic conditions, in shaping the social and economic policies of one democratic state.
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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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Analyse the role of internal abuses of power as a challenge to democracy in the United States.
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Examine the role of the judiciary and judicial review in one democratic state.
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Which feature of the Weimar Constitution most directly produced weak, short-lived coalition governments?
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