Germany Depth Study 1

Question 1

How many states was Germany organised into after the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 1

38

Question 2

What percentage of Germany was Catholic

Answer 2

33%

Question 3

Bismarck’s two aims for constitution

Answer 3

Maintain Prussian power

Overcome divisions

Question 4

What powers did the Kaiser have over other rulers?

Answer 4

Could declare imperial law, controlled civil service and military

Question 5

Reichstag

Answer 5

Elected parliamentary body

Question 6

Who could vote?

Answer 6

All men over 25

Question 7

When was a new flag introduced?

Answer 7

1892

Question 8

What were the 4 different armies?

Answer 8

Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttenberg

Question 9

What state had no elections until 1918?

Answer 9

Mecklenberg-Schwerin

Question 10

In the 1871 costitution what did states control?

Answer 10

Education, tax, police, health

Question 11

Two advantages South had over North

Answer 11

Exempt from beer tax
Kept armies
Kept railway and post systems

Question 12

Bundesrat

Answer 12

Upper house

Question 13

How many Bundesrat delegates did Prussia have?

Answer 13

17 out of 58

Question 14

How many votes were needed for a veto?

Answer 14

14

Question 15

What percentage of the population were the Junkers in Prussia?

Answer 15

5%

Question 16

Catholic Party?

Answer 16

Centre Party

Question 17

Junker party?

Answer 17

German Conservative Party

Question 18

National Liberals

Answer 18

Supported Empire, based in North

Question 19

German People’s Party

Answer 19

South, opposed unification

Question 20

What % of the vote did nationalist parties win in 1874?

Answer 20

10%

Question 21

Who was the largest party in 1871?

Answer 21

National Liberals- 30.1%

Question 22

What did the NLP want?

Answer 22

Greater political reform

Question 23

Why did NLP vote fall to 23.1% in 1878

Answer 23

Came after Bismarck split- presented as traitors

Question 24

Syllabus of Errors

Answer 24

1864

Question 25

Papal Infallibility

Answer 25

1870

Question 26

What did the Church support that Bismarck didn’t?

Answer 26

Speaking of other languages eg Polish

Question 27

1873 May Laws

Answer 27

State had power over education and appointng priests

Question 28

How many priests were exiled or jaled by 1879?

Answer 28

1800

Question 29

How much Church property was seized by 1879?

Answer 29

16 million marks worth

Question 30

When did the Centre Party become the equal largest party?

Answer 30

1878

Question 31

When did Kulturkampf end?

Answer 31

1879

Question 32

Which Pope was more willing to compromise with Bismarck

Answer 32

Leo XIII

Question 33

What was a compulsory subject at schools?

Answer 33

Nationalism

Question 34

Anti Socialist legislation

Answer 34

1872

Question 35

War in Sight crisis

Answer 35

early April 1875

Question 36

French Army Organisation Law

Answer 36

1873- would have 80,000 soldiers ready by 1879

Question 37

Two newspapers involved in War in Sight crisis

Answer 37

Berliner Post

Kolnische Zeitung

Question 38

Which 2 countries got involved in War in Sight?

Answer 38

Britain and Russia

Question 39

Three Emperors League

Answer 39

Russia, Austria, Germany 1873

Question 40

First Reichstag elections

Answer 40

March 1871

Question 41

Second elections

Answer 41

January 1874

Question 42

Third elections

Answer 42

January 1877

Question 43

Fourth elections

Answer 43

July 1878

Question 44

Tariff Act

Answer 44

1879

Question 45

SDP formed

Answer 45

1875