Midterm Study Questions and Terms

History 340: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler
Fall 1998
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Week 2
  1. What problems did the disunity of the German states cause?
  2. Why is it necessary to re-examine the relationship between state and society in Germany?
    • Sonderweg
    • Historikerstreit
    • Goldhagen Controversy




Week 3
  1. Where did constitutionalists, nationalists, and economic reformers unite or divide in the Revolution of 1848/9?
    • constitutional revolution
    • liberal nationalist movement
    • March demands
    • famine
    • socio-economic crisis of industrialization
    • grassroots revolution
    • Frankfurt Assembly
    • Friedrich-Wilhelm IV




  2. What were the positive and negative results of Bismarck's methods for uniting Germany?
    • Otto von Bismarck
    • Schleswig-Holstein
    • North German Confederation
    • Franco-Prussian War
    • Napoleon III


Week 4

  1. Would you characterize the Imperial German state (1871-1918) as a democracy? Explain.
    • Reichstag
    • Constitution of 1871
    • extra-constitutional rule
    • Bonapartist/chancellor dictatorship
    • German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
    • Kulturkampf
    • Centre Party
    • iron and rye
    • social imperialism
    • Sammlungspolitik




  2. Identify the 2 most significant political and cultural results of the demographic transformation of late-19th century Germany.
    • electrical engineering and chemical industries
    • Mittelstand
    • emigration
    • Landflucht
    • welfare policies
  3. How did Wilhelmine art reflect the changing nature of the German middle classes?
    • modernism
    • historicism
    • heroic art
    • art associations
    • Victory column
    • Hermann monument
    • Nietsche
    • Wagner
    • Secessions
    • Youth movement




Week 5
  1. How did 19th-century Geman and French poor children's experiences differ?
    • child labor
    • mandatory schooling
    • corporal punishment




  2. How did Catholics resist the Kulturkampf?
    • religious apparitions
    • Marpingen
    • women's village




Week 6

  1. What political changes marked the era after 1890?
    • Free Trade Unions
    • nationalist associations
    • Agrarian League
    • Anti-Semitism
    • Wilhelm II
    • Leo von Caprivi
    • Bernhard von Buelow
    • Tirpitz
    • "personal rule"
    • Bethmann Hollweg



  2. Why did local franchise laws fail to contain the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD)?
    • Saxony
    • Mehnert's Law
    • franchise reform




Week 7
  1. How did World War I transform German families?
    • turnip winter
    • Wehrfamilie




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