7.2 Notes

 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  Supported research and development  Reorganized banking/ coordinated railway building

 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

 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

 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