End Of Politics- Flashcards
Economic transformation
-motor factories began( opal cars)
-mechanised farming began
-1835 first railway trip
-3rd largest economic power in 19th century
-pop inc (50 mill 1890- 68 mill in 1914)
-uni enrollments rose from 28000-60000 1890-1914
-1907 procured over 1 mill tons of sulfric acid, 1879 1 mill was globally
-production in electrical engery increased by 150% 1901-15
-1913 controlled 1/2of world electrical trade, exported 11 mill of electrical goods vs USA 8 mill
-banking systems offer credit
-1913 63,000 km of railway
Agricultural changes
-1907 35% pop employed in agriculture (4x more than Britain)
-producing 40 mill tons of potatos
-rural labour fell due to mechanised farming
-junkers produced rye and beet
- peasent farmers produced cereal, fruit and dairy
- 60% of Germany’s exported went to Britain France and Russia
Social changes 1871-1914
-pop inc to 68 mill
-infant mortality rate fell from 25% to 15% in 1912
-compolsory immunisation against small pox in 1874
-life expectancy went from 36 (m) to 45 if born in 20th cent
-1/3 of pop has no railway access
-1907 Berlin had more than 2 mill ppl
-1885-1913 wages rose by over 30%
- typical working day was 9 1/2 hrs
-1/3 of pop lived at or below poverty line in 1914
- Berlin homeless shelter accommodate 200,000+ men a year
-1914 3 mill trade union members
-inc in white collar workers
- bourgeoisie golden age
- women not expected to work after marriage
- 1.25 servants in 1907
- patriarchal society
-illegal abortion
- and average 200000 went on strike a year 1905-1913
- bund duets her frauenvereine established 1894
race ideology
-dawins ideology suggested that civilised races would outlive the inferirior (1859)
-1904-08 german army tries to irradicate hereros in africa, they went to cc and had testing done
-1908, 80% heros killed off
-nationalists wanted to create an ethically, lingustically homogeneous nation- state
-40,000 polish school kids went on strike after polish language aboloished in schools
-1910, jews made up 1% of population
-social dawinists arrose
-chamberliens book ‘foundations of the 19th cent’ was pariased by wilehlm for its anitsemist views
-richard wagner wrote anti semist songs
-16 mill jews die in hollocust
-blamed for death of jeaus instead of romans
-sen to not be capable of being part of mainstream society
disipline
-zucht und ordnung
-police went undercover to spy on ‘enemies of the state’ in 1890s
-murder rate was 1/20th of italy or spain
-army seen as architect of unification
-1914, 3 mill belonged to ex servicmens organisiation
-police can send work shy to workhouse
-1906, cobbler dressed in army uniform led 10 solider to kopenic town hall, stole 5,000 marks
causes for ww1
-nationalism
-imperialism
-militerism
-assanation of arch duke franz ferdidnand june 1914, bosnia
-lack of international laws (united nations)
-alliances
*triple allinace 1882, germany, AH, italy (stayed nuetral till 1915 when broke alliance)
*1907 triple entente, russia, england, france
*russia, france, britain,italy,usa after 1917
*geramany,AH,ottoman empire, bulgaria
