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Germany- Social Golden Age Flashcards

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what did the 1924 Public assistance system introduce

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provided help to poor

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what did the 1925 State accident insurance system introduce

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intended to help those injured at work, extended to cover those suffering from occupational diseases

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what did the 1927 national unemployment insurance system introduce

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provide benefits for the unemployed, financed by contributions from workers and employers. This created a system covering 17 million workers which offered benefit at 75% of pay for ¾ of the year

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4
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how many houses were built between 1924 and 1931

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over 2 million

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in 1926, how many disabled war veterans, war widows and war orphans were being supported

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disabled war veterans- 800,000
war widows- 360,000
war orphans- 900,000

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6
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what was a means test

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check on financial circumstances of benefit claimant to confirm eligibility for support.

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7
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how many female deputies were there in the following years: 1919, 1928, 1931

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1919- 41
1928- 33
1931- 42

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8
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which female government representative argued women shouldn’t have the right to vote

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Paula Muller-Otfried

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9
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by 1925, what % of the workforce was women

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36%

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10
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how many women teacher and doctors were there by 1933

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teachers- 100,000
doctors- 3,000

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what were the ‘demobilisation’ laws

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women had to stop working so veterans could find work

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what happened when a woman got married in terms of her job

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had to leave it

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13
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what happened to birth control

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became much more available

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by 1930, on average how many abortions were there each year

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1 million

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15
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how many deaths per year were there due to abortion

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10-12,000

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how many female representatives were there in the Reichsrat

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0

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17
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what were gymnasium schools

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selective schools that provided classical eductation

18
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what % of 14-21 year olds were unemployed in 1925/26

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17%

19
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how many incidents of juvenile crime were there at its peak in Hamburg and when

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1917- 1600 incidents

20
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what was the National Welfare Law in 1922

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every child had right to education, spiritual, physical and social fitness

21
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what were some youth cliques

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-Farmers Fear
-Red Apaches
-Eagles Claw

22
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what was the main educational reform of Weimar period

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introduction of elementary schools

23
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what were the wandervogel

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movement mainly consisting of MC boys- some adopted unconventional lifestyles eg. nudism and vegetarianism

24
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what were church groups

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Both Catholic and Protestant churches had youth groups → focus mainly on promoting church attendance and respect for family and Christian values. `

25
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what were some political youth groups

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Social Democratic Youth Movement (SPD) founded in 1925 → had the most members of any political youth groups in Weimar period.

Young Communist League founded in 1925 → for children of KPD members.

25
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how many jews lived in cities

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80% (400,000)

26
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what % of the population did jews rep

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1%

27
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who are some famous jews in this time

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red rosa
walther rathenau
theodor wolff

28
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what % of banks were jewish owned

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50%

29
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what % of lawyers and doctors were jewish

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16% lawyers and 11% doctors

30
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how many of 34 nobel prizes were won by jewish people

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9 (24%)

31
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what was Jewish Bolshevism

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term used by anti-Semites in the Weimar period to imply that Jewish people and communists were closely associated and represented a danger to German values.

32
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which nightclub was particularly popular to german officials

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Eldorado

33
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what was the predominant art form in this time

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Expressionism

34
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who were avant garde novelists and poets

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adopted free form of writing focusing on character’s internal mental state rather than external social reality, exploring social issues growing out of distress and misery of working people in big cities

35
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what was Bauhaus

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primarily architectural school but also school of art, design and photography, influencing all aspects of design including furniture, urban planning, textiles, pottery and graphics.

36
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what was Zeittheater

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introduced new dramatic methods, often with explicit left-wing sympathies.

37
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what was much of german theatre at the time

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explicitly political, attacking capitalism, nationalism and war.

38
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when was the german radio company set up

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1923

39
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by 1932, how much of the pop had a radio

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