Edexcel History 7. Prosperity and Social Change

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That which many industrial workers responded to through passive resistance, resulting in a collapse of industrial output more damaging than the reparations payments themselves

An 1879 act pushed through by the conservatives that; placed import duties on grain, iron, and steel, plus more products in subsequent years

The percentage of a working class family's income that was spent on food, rent, heating, and clothing in 1870

Foreign workers employed in West Germany via agreements with other countries such as Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey

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'

Those Germans whom initially overwhelmingly dominated by the German Empire's military, civil service, and state institutions

The 1933 - 1936 four year plan focussed on reducing unemployment through government intervention, state investment, and reduced foreign dependency

The wave of industrialisation beginning in the 1850's focused on heavy industry and the railways

An 1889 international association of socialist parties and trade unions that argues women due to their particular nature should be forbidden from night work

That economic policy turned to by Bismarck in the 1870's in an effort to placate industrialists lobbying for tariffs in the depression and to maintain the agriculturally based power of the Junkers

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That which the government financed through war bonds which lost much value through inflation and were not honoured after defeat, badly hitting small businesses and white collar workers

The percentage of total German investment that was put into its railways between 1850 and 1873

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

That group which rebounded after the Second World War by working with industry such as by servicing machines and providing services

A 1924 America led easing of short term reparations payments which helped economic recovery such that GNP reached pre First World War levels by 1927

The general trend in real wages in the German Empire after 1873

That class which prior to industrialisation was comprised of professionals and highly skilled craftsmen and artisans

A joint-stock company and notenbanken formed in 1847 with privately held capital but under state control and direction, becoming the Reichsbank together with all but four of the other German notenbanken

A policy introduced in 1962 to reduce competition within the EEC through the principles of free circulation of agricultural goods, common prices on agricultural goods, and a stable exchange rate

That government one of the main goals of which in reemphasising traditional roles for women was to encourage marriage and childbearing to tackle the falling birth rate, and to reduce unemployment