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Germany Strengthens

7.2 Notes. Germany Strengthens. I. Germany Becomes an Industrial Giant. Factors of Industrialization Ample natural resources Educated and disciplined workforce Promoting Science and Economic Development 1871 issues a single German currency Late 1800’s raise tariffs

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Germany Strengthens

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  1. 7.2 Notes Germany Strengthens

  2. I. Germany Becomes an Industrial Giant • Factors of Industrialization • Ample natural resources • Educated and disciplined workforce • Promoting Scienceand Economic Development • 1871 issues a single German currency • Late 1800’s raise tariffs • Supported research and development • Reorganized banking/ coordinated railway building

  3. II. The Iron Chancellor • Bismarck’s foreign policy goals • Weaken France • Ally with Austria/ Russia • Domestic goals • Kulturkampf- laws that tried to make Catholics put loyalty to state not religion • Kulturkampf backfires

  4. II. The Iron Chancellor cont. • Campaign vs. the Socialists • Bismarck felt socialists were a threat, passed laws against them • It backfired • Bismarck’s tries to lure workers away from socialists • Health, old-age and accident insurance

  5. III. Kaiser William II • Fires Bismarck “there can be only one master in the Reich” • Resists democratic reforms but continues social welfare programs • Public schools taught obedience • Builds up army

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