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That industry which declined from the 1950's onward due to mechanisation and competition from the service sector, somewhat arrested by tariffs on imports imposed in the 1950's
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Agriculture
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The percentage of the workforce that was comprised of women in 1980 compared to 37% in Weimar Germany
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39%
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The years in which the German Empire experienced an economic slump
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1873 - 1890
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That caused by over investment via the influx of capital from France via reparations, and the overheating of the economy having allowed many otherwise unsustainable and unprofitable businesses to survive
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1873 Depression
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That personal status of which - alongside what was earned by her husband - was the biggest determinant of whether a women worked or not in Weimar Germany
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Marital Status
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One of the three trade union movements that had formed by the 1890's, being socialist in inspiration, with a membership of 2,500,000 by 1913
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Free Trade Unions
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The general direction of movement in real wages in West Germany
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Upwards
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That which posed a challenge to the Junkers as it resulted in them coming into opposition from all the non-Prussian German states
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German Unification
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That ideology to which most masters turned, against a background of declining influence, relevance, and representation, seeking to restore themselves to their pre-industrial position
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Conservatism
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The official name of the Nazi Party
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
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The German Chancellor from 1949 to 1963 who saw West Germany internationalise (join the IMF, etc.) and integrate economically with Western Europe
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Konrad Adenauer
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That demographic which in Nazi Germany were viewed as having the roles of domestic wives and mothers, separate from the world of work, whose role it was to support her husband, home, and family
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Women
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A Nazi organisation that encouraged increased holiday in lieu of pay rises
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Strength through Joy
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The years in which the French and Belgians occupied the Ruhr
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1923 and 1925
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Bismarck-era laws beginning in 1878 that suppressed socialist newspapers, outlawed trade unions, and imprisoned hundreds
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Anti-Socialist Laws
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Those labour associations that membership of increased in the Weimar Republic due to in large part to their newfound legal recognition
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Trade Unions
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The percentage of electronic goods consumed worldwide by 1913 produced by AEG and Siemens
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50%
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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 percentage of representatives in the Weimar Republic that were women
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7 - 10%
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A middle class, women-only feminist organisation seeking to advance women's rights, founded in 1894 and dissolved in 1933 rather than face Nazification
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Bund Deutscher Frauvereine (BDF)
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