Socialists biggest threat to unity

Question 1

Assassination attempts of Wilhelm the first

Answer 1

To declare that socialism was a threat (even though there was no correlation with SPD or socialists)

Question 2

Anti-socialist legislation

Answer 2

• prohibited socialist meetings
• gave police power to search, arrest, and exile socialist politicians
• ‘Law for Combating the Criminal Aims of Social Democracy’

Question 3

Fear of internal enemy

Answer 3

Tried to use fear of the internal enemy as a means of attempting to bind the middle classes together

Question 4

SAPD votes

Answer 4

1871 - 3.3%

1874 - 6.8%

1877 - 9.1%

1878 - 7.6%

= small proportion = less of a threat

Question 6

Evaluation

Answer 6

Through his policies, socialists were deemed as a threat to national unity as they didn’t share the nationalist goals and loyalty to the kaiser