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CPO 2001 Final Exam
England, France, Nicaragua, Germany
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2008

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Germans achieved National unity ____ ____ in their history (measurement of time)
Definition
very late
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First German Empire (when to when)
Definition
800-1806
Term
Treaty of Ausburg (when, established what)
Definition
1555, "religion of the ruler determines religion of people"
Term
Thirty Years' War (when)
Definition
1618-1648
Term
Prussia
Definition
1648-1806

aspired to replace Austria as the dominant German state
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Which did the middle class value more? stability or liberty
Definition
stability
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Otto Von Bismarck
Definition
Iron Chancellor

prime minister Prussia in the 1860s
Term
German nation came into being in ____
Definition
1871
Term
Second German Empire
Definition
1871-1918
Term
Franco-Prussian War
Definition
1870
Term
Imperial Germany was an eternal alliance of the _____ __ _______. What was it's Purpose?
Definition
King of Prussia

Purpose: protecting the territory, laws, interests of the German peoples
Term
The empire was dominated by _____.
Definition
Prussia
Term
The empire was dominated by _____.
Definition
Prussia
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Bismark's attack on the ________ set the precedent of a state sponsored and orchestrated campaign against a ________ accounting for no less than ______ of the population in Germany.
Definition
Catholics, Minority, two-thirds
Term
new type of warfare that depended on the ability of German army to move troops and materials rapidly between eastern and western frontiers.
Definition
Blitzkrieg
Term
War in 1914 was supported by all German political parties but with some individual exceptions among the _________ _____________.
Definition
Social Democrats
Term
Weimar Republic (When, what, aspects of it)
Definition
1919-1933, first experiment with democratic government at the national level, liberal, provided for a federal and democratic government
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Problems with the Weimar Republic
Definition
suffered from a crisis of legitimacy, crippled from birth
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When was the constitution of the weimar Republic adopted?
Definition
July 31, 1919
Term
What type of sufferage did the Weimar Republic have?
Definition
Universal sufferage
Term
Lower house of the parliament in the Weimar Republic
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Reichstag
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What did the constitution provide for under certain circumstances?
Definition
Rule by decree
Term
Who was the president of the Weimar Republic elected by?
Definition
the people
Term
When did the Nazis come to power?
Definition
1933
Term
What structural factors in the 1919 constitution contributed to the downfall of the Weimar Republic?
Definition
Electoral system base on proportional representation, emergency powers clause, popular mandate of president, provisions concerning popular initiative and referendum
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Weimar government was run by a ______ _______ bureaucracy
Definition
highly reactionary
Term
There were __ cabinets in the Weimar republic between 1919 and 1933. What was their average life?
Definition
21, 8 months
Term
When did Adolf Hitler become the new chancellor?
Definition
January 30, 1933
Term
What did the Nazi regime promise?
Definition
law and order to the middle class, stable jobs, higher wages, better positions to the workers, higher prices to the peasants, elimination of the trade unions to big businesses, radical reforms to left wing extremists
Term
How did Hitler suspend the Weimar constitution?
Definition
he ruled by decree
Term
What was the upper chamber of the
Weimar republic and when was it abolished?
Definition
Reichstrat, 1934
Term
When did Hitler fuse the presidency and chancellorship into one office
Definition
When Hindenburg died in 1934
Term
What title was Hitler know by?
Definition
Fuhrer
Term
When did the tide turn against Hitler?
Definition
when he attacked the Soviet Union
Term
What were the two separate states in Germany from 1945 to 1990
Definition
Federal Republic of Germany (west Germany) (FRG), German Democratic Republic (east Germany) (GDR)
Term
East Germany was under the influence of the _______ and developed a _________ _______ state.
Definition
USSR, authoritarian socialist
Term
West Germany was controlled by _____, _________ and ________. IT developed as a _______ ________ or __________ society.
Definition
Usa, Britain, France. Democratic c.apitalist or Bourgeois
Term
Where were the political centers in Germany
Definition
Berlin and Bonn
Term
Wirtschaftswunder
Definition
Economic miracle
Term
Germans have an ______ population.
Definition
aging
Term
Before 1945, Catholics were a minority, outnumbered by Protestants__:__.
Definition
2:1
Term
Relation between church and state has always been very ______ and ______
Definition
special and close
Term
Basic Law (when and what it said about religion)
Definition
1949, state is neutral to all religions
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