7.2 Notes
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Factors of Industrialization
 Ample natural resources
 Educated and disciplined
workforce
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Promoting Science and
Economic Development
 1871 issues a single German
currency
 Late 1800’s raise tariffs
 Supported research and
development
 Reorganized banking/
coordinated railway building
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Bismarck’s foreign
policy goals
 Weaken France
 Ally with Austria/ Russia
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Domestic goals
 Kulturkampf- laws that
tried to make Catholics
put loyalty to state not
religion
 Kulturkampf backfires
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Campaign vs. the
Socialists
 Bismarck felt socialists
were a threat, passed
laws against them
 It backfired
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Bismarck’s tries to lure
workers away from
socialists
 Health, old-age and
accident insurance
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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