History Chapter 1: Germany in 1900
Mind-map highlighting the key features of Chapter 1 and parts of Chapter 2 and 3 from the book 'From Kaiser to Furher: Germany 1900-1945'
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- Germany in 1900
- Bismarck's Legacy
- Creation of German state 1871
- Constitution
- Kaiser
- Chancellor
- Kaiser
- Bundesrat
- Reichstag
- male suffrage
- no real power
- Reichstag
- male suffrage
- no real power
- no real power
- male suffrage
- Reichstag
- no real power
- male suffrage
- Prussian dominated
- Archaic voting system
- Indirect Tax
- State Welfare
- SIL, AIL, OAPL
- German Economy
- 2nd Revolution
- 1914: industrial power
- GNP: 4.5%
- Short term
- Long term
- Population growth exponential
- abundance of raw materials
- Education
- 1890-1914 uni 2x
- Banking
- Credit policy
- Protection
- Tariffs
- Cartels
- accepted, legally protected
- Coal, Thyssen, Krupp 1893
- Long term
- Long term
- Population growth exponential
- abundance of raw materials
- 2nd Revolution
- New Ideas
- Socialism
- Marxism
- SPD 1875
- 1893 1/4 vote
- anti-socialist 1878-90
- Nationalism
- Conservative by 1900
- Germanisation
- 5% minorities
- Lebensraum
- Social-Darwinism
- Survival...
- Wagner
- Jews 'inferior, parasetic'
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-Semitism
- Socialism
- German Society
- Junkers
- Landed nobility
- Officers
- Industrialists
- copy junkers
- Middle Class
- maintain status quo
- Mittelstand
- lower-middle
- far right support
- Goldhage "willing executioners"
- Working Class
- 30% prosperous 2nd, abject poverty
- National identity
- Kulturkampf
- Kaelbe
- Junkers
- Political Structure
- Chancellors
- Caprivi
- New Course
- conservative pressures
- Legalise Socialism
- Tariff reform
- Army reform
- Anti socialist lapsed
- 1890-4
- New Course
- Hohenlohe
- 'puppet figure'
- 1897
- turning point (historians)
- weltpolitik
- 1894-1900
- Bulow
- 1900-09
- foreign minister
- 1897 1900
- manipulator
- welpolitik
- 1897 1900
- Hottentot election
- Telegraph affair
- Bethmann
- 1909-1917
- lack of experience in foreign affairs
- ignorance of military issues
- Caprivi
- Reichstag
- Conservatives
- DKP, RP, NLP
- 1887, 48% vote
- DKP, RP, NLP
- 1912, 26% vote
- Liberals
- 1893, 3 parties
- failure of liberalism
- 1893, 3 parties
- Centre Party
- Catholic
- important
- Social Democrats
- SPD
- 1912, 34.8% vote
- reformists
- marxists
- Conservatives
- pressure groups
- Agrarian League
- Pan-German League
- Navy League
- Hakastein
- Chancellors
- Who Ran Germany?
- Personal Rule
- Rohl
- Wilhelm's personality
- Extensive powers
- however
- grasp of politics limited
- lazy, pleasure seeking
- no regular routine
- preferred social, ceremonial roles
- delusion of power?
- History from below
- Blackbourn, Eley
- popular movements
- responding to public opinion
- Structuralist
- Wehler
- elites
- 1890 power vacuum
- sammlungspolitik
- however
- exaggerated purpose
- declining junker class
- fears of middle class
- Personal Rule
- Bismarck's Legacy
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