Edexcel History 7. Prosperity and Social Change

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The 1891 - 1894 treaties initiated by Caprivi that guaranteed foreign markets for German exports in exchange for reducing tariffs on cattle, timber, and wheat from those countries (Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, etc.)

That type of work which saw an increase due to increases in the service sector, the Second Industrial Revolution, and the growth in civil government

That which happened regarding politics during the Great Depression

The percentage of workers employed in enterprises of no more than five employees in 1907 compared to 41.8% in 1882

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

Workers who rented a bed rather than a room

That class of women which was most heavily affected by the 1943 labour draft

An economic policy implemented by Hjalmar Schacht, which protected the economy through centralised control and state interventionism

The two opposing camps in historiography in interpreting the effects on living conditions of industrialisation, in alphabetical order

The measure of GNP minus depreciation, which increased at an average rate of 1.84% between 1850 and 1873

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That event which caused Nazi Germany to relax restrictions on women in education and work (though not politics) due to manpower shortages and industrial necessity

The which the conservatives often saw the working class and SDP as being?

An 1891 act that reduced working hours for women and those under 16 and granted maternity leave of 8 weeks (2 before birth) among other things, so as to make work easier for women while also promoting their traditional roles ad mothers in the home

Those two things which were fed by cheap labour from urbanisation and population growth, investment from banks, plentiful natural resources, commercial treaties with foreign countries, and large state subsidies

Bismarck-era laws beginning in 1878 that suppressed socialist newspapers, outlawed trade unions, and imprisoned hundreds

That demographic which filled many jobs during the First World War until removed by law at the war's end to the anger of many socialist proponents

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

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

The only year in which Nazi Germany saw real wage increases

That which galvanised the women's movement to seek female suffrage