Parliamentary Government, Industrialisation, Growth of Socialism

• What is a Chancellor?

  Advisor of the Kaiser
• What is a Bundesrat?


  Representatives from each state
• What was the Reichstag?

  German Parliament, made up of 25 elected men
• What did the Reichstag do?

  Debate and voted on laws drawn up by the Kaiser and ministers
• What could the Kaiser do?

  Ignore government advice and make own decisions, also made all military and foreign policy decisions
• What did Germany begin doing in the 1800s?

  Industrialise the country
• How much of Europe's steel were Germany producing?

  2/3 (1914)
• Why were Workers forming trade unions in 1914?

  They were unhappy with working conditions
• What party started to become popular?

  SPD (Social Democratic Party)