Question factors

Question 1

To what extend did Bismarck succeed in reducing divisions

Answer 1

• Promoting nationalism (socialists too)
• Religious oppression
• Democracy/ reichstags/ Reichsrat
• Socio-economic divisions/ work with national liberals

Question 2

To what extent did Bismarck successfully achieve his goals 1871-1880?

Answer 2

• Promoting nationalism
• reducing divides
• socio-economic reconciliation

Question 3

How accurate is it to say that the constitution of the second reich was mainly democratic?

Answer 3

• Reichstag
• Leadership of the country ie Kaiser and Bismarck
• Reichsrat and Lander parliaments

Question 4

To what extent did political parties have any real power in Germany??

Answer 4

• Reichstag
• treatment of the SPD and Z party
• Leadership of the country ie Kaiser and Bismarck
• Reichsrat and Lander parliaments

Question 5

To what extent were socialist the greatest threat to unity?

Answer 5

• Socialists
• Catholics
• Democracy/ Reichstag (failure of nationalism maybe)
• Dominance of Kaiser/ Prussia