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That group which retained considerable power in Weimar Germany by agreeing under General Groener to support the republic militarily in exchange for retaining its authority, though the change in the voting system reduced them significantly in the Reichstag
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Junkers
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That which, in Weimar Germany, suffered due to a fall in food prices due to global overproduction, causing very low real wage growth for farmers, rural rioting (farmer's revenge), and a move by farmers towards extremist parties such as the Nazi's
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Agriculture
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The 1933 - 1936 four year plan focussed on reducing unemployment through government intervention, state investment, and reduced foreign dependency
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First Four Year Plan
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That which reparations were set at in 1921, though only a fraction of this was paid
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132 billion marks
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Those, the principal focus of which during the 1860's to 1890's was self help against the risks of sickness, disability, and accidents, as well as the provision of educational and leisure opportunities, only rarely becoming involved in organising strikes
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Trade Unions
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That group which has largely succeeded the social position of artisans
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White-Collar Workers
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The month and year in which a mass strike occurred across Germany to which the government responded brutally, and many male strikers were sent to the front, thereby inadvertently spreading socialist ideas and instability
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January 1918
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President of the Reichsbank from 1933 to 1939 and Minister of Economics from 1934 - 1937, who devised the 'New Plan' centred on economic nationalism
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Hjalmar Schacht
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The 1959 platform of the SDP that abandoned nationalisation in favour of a capitalist framework
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Godesberg Program
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One of the three trade union movements that had formed by the 1890's, associated with liberal parties, with a membership of 107,000 by 1913
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Hirsch-Duncker Unions
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A 1948 - 1951 package of American financial assistance to help rebuild Western Europe of which West Germany was the third largest recipient behind the UK and France
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Marshall Plan
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That Junker based group in the Reichstag which tried to ensure continued majorities over the SDP by allying with the upper-middle class and industrial elite 'National Liberals'
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Conservatives
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A kind of Nazi trade union of which membership was virtually compulsory, and striking and collective bargaining abolished
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Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF)
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The 1936 - 1939 Four Year Plan under Hermann Göring focussed on speeding up rearmament by increasing state supervision of the economy and moving away from consumer industries
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Second Four Year Plan
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The 1875 platform of the SDP based on achieving socialism through Parliamentary means
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Gotha Program
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That group which tried to regain its position in Weimar Germany through 64% of guilds making membership compulsory, though only 56% of these individuals being members of such guilds
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Artisans
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That group which rebounded after the Second World War by working with industry such as by servicing machines and providing services
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Mittelstand
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The trend in where people lived that occurred continuously from the German Empire to and through West Germany
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Urbanisation
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The year in which German agriculture went into crisis due to a worldwide slump in food prices
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1928
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That the effect of which was that it increased social mobility for German workers
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Gastarbeiter
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