Golden Age

Question 1

BENEFITS
Previously mentioned
2

Answer 1

1919 - aid for disabled war vets and widows
1922 - national youth welfare act (kids right to education)

Question 2

BENEFITS
Stats helping war vets, widows, orphans

Answer 2

Vets 800,000
Widows 360,000
War orphans 900,000

Question 3

BENEFITS
Issues

Answer 3

1. Government couldn’t keep up
2. People faked needing benefits

Question 4

WOMEN WORKFORCE
Pros / equality
2

Answer 4

1. 1925 36% workforce women
2. 1933 100,000 women teachers and 3000 doctors

Question 5

WOMEN WORKFORCE
Cons
3

Answer 5

1. Demobilisation law - quit jobs post WW1. Especially married
   -double earners
2. Paid less
3. The Legue of German women - 900,000 women advocating for tradition

Question 6

WOMEN WORKFORCE
Cons
Transitional women’s group name

Answer 6

The Legue of German women

Question 7

WOMEN SEXUAL FREEDOM
Pros
3

Answer 7

1. Divorce rate Inc
2. Abortion common 1 mil annual
3. Birth control / birth rate declined

Question 8

WOMEN SEXUAL FREEDOM
Cons
3

Answer 8

1. Abortion criminal 12,000 deaths
2. Decline in birth rates attacked by right as ‘birth strike’ to hurt nation
3. Church anti divorce

Question 9

WOMEN POLITICS
Pros
2

Answer 9

1. Equal voting rights 21+
2. 41 elected to Reichstag as deputies

Question 10

WOMEN POLITICS
Cons
3

Answer 10

1. No female representatives in Reichstag
2. No women cabinet members
3. Only KPD favoured gender equality

Question 11

YOUTH
% of youth unemployed

Answer 11

17%

Question 12

YOUTH
Average age of leaving school

Answer 12

14

Question 14

YOUTH
HAMBURG CASE STUDY
4 cliques

Answer 14

Farmers fear
Eagles claw
Red apaches
Death defier

Question 15

YOUTH
HAMBURG CASE STUDY
What are they

Answer 15

Poor gangs
Masculinity and booze and initiation tests with crime

Question 16

TRADITIONAL YOUTH
Group name

Answer 16

The Wandering Birds

Question 17

TRADITIONAL YOUTH
The wandering birds
What did they do

Answer 17

Hiking
Nationalist but non political

Question 18

TRADITIONAL YOUTH
Religious groups

Answer 18

Promoted family, school and god

Question 19

TRADITIONAL YOUTH
Political youth

Answer 19

SPD members mainly

Question 20

EDUCATION IN YOUTH
Schools types
2

Answer 20

1. Gymnasium Schools - strict, upper/middle class
2. Realschule- hands on. Working class

Question 21

EDUCATION IN YOUTH
Weimar goals?

Answer 21

Stop class divisions
-introduced elementary schools
-take test into gymnasium school, if fail then retake

-failed removing religion

Question 22

JEWISH CULTURE
How many Jews made up population?

Answer 22

1%

Question 23

JEWISH CULTURE
% living in cities

Answer 23

90%
Well educated

Question 24

JEWISH CULTURE
Assimilate definition

Answer 24

To maintain ethnic identity whilst integrating to German culture

-many proud to be Jewish

Question 25

JEWISH CULTURE % of doctors who are Jewish in ___

Answer 25

50% Berlin

Question 26

JEWISH CULTURE Weimar can’t help assimilation 2

Answer 26

•anti-semitism especially during hyperinflation (wealthy) •Jews and KPD paired together

Question 27

JEWISH CULTURE Weimar can help assimilation

Answer 27

Provides jobs and opportunities

Question 28

EDUCATION Key scientist

Answer 28

Albert Einstein Also Jewish Nobel Physics prize

Question 29

VISUAL ARTS Key movement 2

Answer 29

Bauhaus school visual arts movement -limited by Nazis 1933 Dada movement WW1 -against western art

Question 30

MUSIC 2 types

Answer 30

American jazz Caberet - Berlin. Drunk and clubs

Question 31

CINEMA Popular style?

Answer 31

Expressionist - exaggerating acting, unrealistic sets, darker themes

Question 32

DECADENCE meaning

Answer 32

Partaking in behaviour typically unusual / immoral in Berlin

Question 33

DECADENCE Types 3

Answer 33

•homosexuality and trans •drugs and prostitution •organised crime

Question 34

DECADENCE What did this cause

Answer 34

Culture clash Traditional and Nazis vs golden age