German History

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First past the post
A type of election where whoever gets the most votes
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Government
An human institution designed to protect from threats and to make policies that will provide the most favourable conditions under which citizens may live
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Nationalism
The doctrine that national interests are more important than individual or international considerations; often favours aggressive warlike foreign policies
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Socialism
A social, political and economic system in which major industries are nationalised but they have power through the consent of the governed
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Communism
A social, political and economic system characterised by the revolutionary struggle to create a society which has no class system, the common ownership of the means of production and a centralised government
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Republic
A country based on the concept that the people have the authority but they delegate the power to rule in their behalf to elected representative and officials
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Dictatorship
A political system where a ruler has absolute authority and supreme jurisdiction over the government of state
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Democracy
A political system in which the government rules by consent of the governed
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Left Wing
A political stand point that believed in the power of the government getting involved to help people, the redistribution of wealth, and the state owning things of value to help the poor
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Right Wing
A Political stand point the believed in the government should rarely get involved in peoples lives and that Germany needed a strong leader to tell them what to do
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KPD
A communist political party (German Communist Party)
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USPD
Independent socialists
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SDP
Social Democratic Party
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DDP
German Democratic Party
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Z
Centre Party
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DVP
German People's Party
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DNVP
German Nationalist People's Party
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NSDAP
National Socialist German Worker's Party
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Kaiser
Hereditary monarch, had the power to appoint and dismiss the government, could dissolve the Reichstag, controlled foreign policy and the armed forces
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Reichstag
Members were elected by universal male suffrage, they could agree to or reject laws proposed by Kaiser or the government
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Government
Appointed/dismissed by the Kaiser, it ,proposed new laws to the Reichstag and it was not dependent upon support in the Reichstag to stay in office
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Reichstag
Had veto on legislation passed by the Reichstag
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Democratic aspects of 19th century Germany
Parliament elected by male universal suffrage, an established system of political parties, growing support for the SPD
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Undemocratic aspects of the 19th century Germany
Hereditary monarch who could dissolve the Reichstag, the reichstag did not control the government, the junkerclass dominated property the army and the civil service, growth of SPD reinforced conservative tendencies in the middle class
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An human institution designed to protect from threats and to make policies that will provide the most favourable conditions under which citizens may live

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Government

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The doctrine that national interests are more important than individual or international considerations; often favours aggressive warlike foreign policies

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A social, political and economic system in which major industries are nationalised but they have power through the consent of the governed

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A social, political and economic system characterised by the revolutionary struggle to create a society which has no class system, the common ownership of the means of production and a centralised government

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