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GCSE History · key term
Basic freedoms, such as freedom of speech and association, which protect individuals from unjustified interference by the state.
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Paper 1
Freedoms such as freedom of speech, conscience, assembly and association, which protect people’s ability to express beliefs and organise.
Revise: Nicholas II and the CourtThe Manifesto promised civil liberties, including freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association. It also promised a wider franchise and an elected State Duma, without whose approval new laws could not take effect.
Paper 1, Paper 3
Freedoms such as freedom of expression and religious belief, which protect individuals from arbitrary interference by the state.
Basic individual freedoms and legal protections, such as freedom of speech and protection against imprisonment without trial.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Basic freedoms and legal protections, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and protection against arbitrary arrest.
Freedoms protecting individuals from unjustified interference, including freedom of speech and political association.
Basic freedoms that protect individuals from excessive state interference, such as freedom from arbitrary detention.
Paper 3
Basic freedoms and legal protections, such as freedom of speech and protection against arbitrary imprisonment.
Revise: Establishing the dictatorshipOn 28 February, Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree. It suspended important civil liberties, including freedom of speech and protection against arbitrary arrest. Police could search homes and imprison people without the normal legal safeguards.
Distinguish the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties, from the Enabling Act, which allowed the government to make laws without the Reichstag.
Distinguish the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties, from the Enabling Act, which allowed the Cabinet to legislate without parliamentary approval.
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