Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History GCSE- Changes in Society
1880-1914
- Industrialisation
- 1880-1890
- Urban population growing
- 60% population live in cities (1910)
- Berlin population doubled
- More Problems
- Workers want better living/working conditions
- Felt Exploited
- Socialism Increase
- Uneven Wealth distribution
- Immigration from
East Europe
- Matched Britain coal production, and
better iron, steel production (WWI)
- Germany were world leaders in
Chemical, Electronic and Automobile
Industries
- Creation of railways, trains, ships
- Landowners, Businesses,
Factory Owners Benefited
- Socialist Threat
- Wealthy Elites feel threatened
- Social Reforms
Anlagen:
- Reduce support for SPD, keep workers
loyal to the state
- Trade Union Growth
- Workers want change
- Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Socialism
- Limited Help from Kaiser, workers turned to SPD
- Won the most votes (1890+)
- 1893- 44 seats
- 1901- 81 seats
- Kaiser change constitution and
block them from Reichstag
- Autocratic- unpopular
- Won the most seats (1912)
- Kaiser under pressure- stop SPD
involvement in the Reichstag
- Voted against the Kaiser
- Prussian Military
- German Foreign Policy- expansion
- Weltpolitik (1897)
- Naval Laws
- 1898-1914
- Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
- Distraction from democratic problems