Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Imperial Germany
- Political System
- Union of States
- PRUSSIA
Anmerkungen:
- Prussia dominated Imperial Germany at every turn. It accounted for 2/3 of the German population.
- Prussification
- Kaiser
- ministers
- foreign policy
- Wilhelm II
- Junkers
- Protestant
- 25 states
- Democracy?
- secret ballot
- men over 25
- Reichstag
- budget
- Economic Growth
- 1871-1914
- fastest growth in
Europe
- 2 X France
- 3 X Britain
- chemicals
- Haber Process
- important 20th C discovery
- fertilisers
- explosives
- BASF
- Electrical
Engineering
- links with Science
- Imperial German Society
- Working Class
- living conditions
- low wages
- bad housing
- 'rat barracks'
- harsh factory
discipline
- SOCIALISM
- SPD
- 1890
- 1914: Biggest
Party
- hostile to
capitalism
- way of life
- Trade Unions
- newspapers
- clubs
- equality
- Ruling Class
- Junkers
- Officer Corps
- higher civil service
- industrial tycoons
- leaders Protestant
Church
- hated SPD
- threat
- status
- wealth
- feared revolution
- 'unpatriotic'
- Catholics
- areas of
Germany
- Bavaria
- Rhineland
- Sliesia
- Protestants