Two German states in 1949

Builds on · 88

Step 1

• Past, present and future · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 2

• Traces of the past · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Dating: BC and AD · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Types of historical sources · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 3

• Centuries and millennia · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Primary and secondary sources · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 4

• Timeline · strand History and time: basic concepts
• The founding legend of Rome · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 5

• Historical periods · strand History and time: basic concepts
• The Roman Republic · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 6

• Human evolution and migration · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• Greek city-states · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Patricians and plebeians · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Roman expansion · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 7

• Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• Athenian democracy · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Crisis of the Roman Republic · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Romanisation · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 8

• Neolithic farming villages · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• The Roman frontier (limes) · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• The legacy of antiquity · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 9

• Neolithic Revolution · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• The Migration Period · strand Middle Ages

Step 10

• Civilisation on the Nile · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 11

• Features of an advanced civilisation · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 12

• The pharaoh and Egyptian society · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 13

• Monarchy · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 14

• Caesar, Augustus and the Principate · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 15

• Christians in the Roman Empire · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 16

• The Frankish kingdom · strand Middle Ages

Step 17

• Charlemagne's rule · strand Middle Ages

Step 18

• Charlemagne's coronation in 800 · strand Middle Ages
• The three medieval estates · strand Middle Ages

Step 19

• Origins of the Holy Roman Empire · strand Middle Ages
• Medieval faith and church · strand Middle Ages

Step 20

• Renaissance and humanism · strand Early modern period
• Church abuses and indulgences · strand Early modern period

Step 21

• Luther and the Reformation · strand Early modern period

Step 22

• Peace of Augsburg · strand Early modern period

Step 23

• Causes of the Thirty Years' War · strand Early modern period

Step 24

• Peace of Westphalia · strand Early modern period

Step 25

• Absolutism · strand Early modern period

Step 26

• Mercantilism · strand Early modern period
• The Enlightenment · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 27

• Separation of powers · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Causes of the French Revolution · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Industrialisation in England · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 28

• The revolution of 1789 · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Steam engine and railway · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 29

• Declaration of the Rights of Man · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Constitutional monarchy · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Industrialisation in Germany · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 30

• The Reign of Terror · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Factory work in the 19th century · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Urbanisation · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 31

• Napoleon's rule in Europe · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• The social question · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 32

• End of the Holy Roman Empire · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Rise of German nationalism · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Socialism and communism · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 33

• Congress of Vienna · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Liberalism and nationalism · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 34

• Restoration under Metternich · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Motives of imperialism · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 35

• The revolution of 1848–49 · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Alliances and the arms race · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 36

• Frankfurt Parliament · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• The July Crisis, 1914 · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 37

• Failure of the 1848 revolution · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• The Russian Revolution · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 38

• Founding of the German Empire · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• 1917 as a turning point · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 39

• Constitution of the German Empire · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Treaty of Versailles · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 40

• Reshaping Europe in 1919 · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic
• The November Revolution · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic
• Hyperinflation of 1923 · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 41

• Enemies of the Weimar Republic · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 42

• The crisis year 1923 · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 43

• Stabilisation of the Weimar Republic · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 44

• The Great Depression · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 45

• Rise of the Nazi Party · strand Imperialism, First World War and Weimar Republic

Step 46

• Nazi ideology · strand National Socialism and Second World War

Step 47

• The road to war · strand National Socialism and Second World War

Step 48

• Course of the Second World War · strand National Socialism and Second World War

Step 49

• End of the war in 1945 · strand National Socialism and Second World War

Step 50

• Potsdam Conference

Step 51

• Origins of the Cold War directly

Built on directly by

Step 53

• The Basic Law
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact
• Market and planned economies
• The SED dictatorship
• Coming to terms with the Nazi past

After that, 12 more building blocks build on it in 5 further steps.