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That the short term affects of which were an initial drop in food prices, though in the long term high subsidies mandated by the policy led to guaranteed high prices for farmers and thus to allocative inefficiency
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Common Agricultural Policy
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That class which along with trade unions gained greater bargaining power during the First World War via the threat and use of strikes and unrest
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Working Class
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That ideology to which most journeymen turned, against a background of increased competition from industry and reduced employability
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Social Democracy
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He who introduced the commercial treaties so as to reduce food prices during the bad harvests of 1890 to 1891, achieve self sufficiency, and reverse the effect of the shrinking overseas market for industrial goods
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Leo von Caprivi
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That industry which alongside the motor industry most benefited from the first four year plan
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Construction
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The naval expansion programme under Tirpitz from 1897 that sought to exert world power, which helped create jobs and boost the economy, thereby garnering popular support except from the left
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Naval Laws
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The percentage of a working class family's income that was spent on food, rent, heating, and clothing in 1870
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85%
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A person trained in a skilled craft who works under a master
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Journeyman
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A powerful 1893 - 1945 cartel which controlled the output, markets, and prices within the coal industry
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Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate (RWKS)
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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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Those two processes that saw a third of Germans living in towns and cities in 1871, up to two thirds by 1914, in alphabetical order
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Industrialisation and Urbanisation
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That which increased to 29.9% of the working population during the Great Depression in 1932
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Unemployment
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The general direction of movement in real wages in West Germany
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Upwards
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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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That kind of labour association which was legally recognised in 1890
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Trade Union
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That class which prior to industrialisation was comprised of professionals and highly skilled craftsmen and artisans
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Middle Class
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The general trend in real wages in the German Empire after 1873
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Upwards
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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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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 which was in a standstill by 1914 due to the SDP Reichstag and Junker government failing to cooperate
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Politics
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