Edexcel History 7. Prosperity and Social Change

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The popularly held belief that rural life and paternalistic relationships of the land were a desirable and effective counter to the degeneracy of the cities

That which saw an increase after the Second World War, allowing for the maintenance of a cheap labour force via the influx of eastern immigrants and refugees as well as Gastarbeiter

That sector in which Germany was world leading by the 1880's to 1890's particularly technologically and in research at universities

That system which after the Second World War became independent of government, setting its own interest rates

That which reparations were set at in 1921, though only a fraction of this was paid

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

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

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

The quasi-state formed in 1947 by the merger of the American and British occupation zones

Those treaties, the political effects of which were that the conservatives and Junkers, opposed to decreased in food tariffs became a mostly agrarian interest group, forming the Agrarian League in 1893

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That which was caused by the payment of war reparations by France

That third trade union movement to have formed by the 1890's alongside the Hirsch-Dunker unions and Free Trade Unions, with a membership of 343,000 by 1913

The percentage of the Berlin population that lived five or six to a room in 1912

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

The idea that men occupy a public role in work and politics separate to the private role of women in the home

That type of worker which constituted 25% of Nazi Party members from 1928 to 1933

The group which was protected only superficially by Nazi Germany in favour of increasing industrial production

That which posed a challenge to the Junkers as it resulted in them coming into opposition from all the non-Prussian German states

That post Second World War conflict that helped to increase international - particularly US and British - demand for German industrial goods

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