Knowledge test 1890-1914 Germany AS level History

Question 1

What was the length of the German railway line in 1890?

Accepted Answer

42,000km

Question 2

What was the length of the German railway line by 1913?

Accepted Answer

63,000 km

Question 3

What was the German population by 1914?

Accepted Answer

67 million

Question 4

How many seats did the SPD have in the Reichstag by 1912?

Accepted Answer

110

Question 5

In what year was the Agrarian League formed?

Accepted Answer

1893

Question 6

Under which chancellor was the employment of children under the age of 13 forbidden?

Accepted Answer

Caprivi

Question 7

When was compulsory immunisation against smallpox introduced in Germany?

Accepted Answer

1874

Question 8

What was steel output in millions of tonnes by 1890?

Accepted Answer

2.2

Question 9

In what year did Bismarck resign?

Accepted Answer

1890

Question 10

By what percentage did real wages grow between 1885-1913?

Accepted Answer

30%

Question 11

How many seats did the SPD have in the Reichstag in 1907?

Accepted Answer

43

Question 12

What was the rate of infant mortality in the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 13

How many cartels were there by 1900?

Accepted Answer

300

Question 14

What was the life expectancy for German men in the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

36

Question 15

How many seats did the SPD have by 1890?

Accepted Answer

35

Question 16

Real wages increased by what percentage between 1895-1913?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 17

In what year did Pope Pius IX die?

Accepted Answer

1878

Question 18

Infant mortality was what by 1912?

Accepted Answer

15%

Question 19

What was the approximate Catholic : Protestant ratio in Germany?

Accepted Answer

40 : 60

Question 20

By 1910 what percentage of the population lived in cities and towns? (Urban population)

Accepted Answer

60%

Question 21

In what year did the Pope proclaim the 'Doctrine of Papal Infallibility'?

Accepted Answer

1870

Question 22

What percentage of the population lived in towns of over 2000 population by 1910?

Accepted Answer

60%

Question 23

In what year did Kaiser Wilhelm I die?

Accepted Answer

1888

Question 24

Which party had 42 seats in the Reichstag in 1890?

Accepted Answer

National Liberals

Question 25

Life expectancy for German women was what in the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

38

Question 26

The production of electrical energy increased by what between 1901-1915?

Accepted Answer

150%

Question 27

Which of the following was not a reason for the drop in infant mortality:

Accepted Answer

Discovery of penicillin

Question 28

What percentage of the population were employed in agriculture by 1907?

Accepted Answer

35%

Question 29

By 1914 what was the percentage of agriculture's share of the GNP?

Accepted Answer

Less than a quarter

Question 30

In what year did Bethmann Hollweg become chancellor?

Accepted Answer

1909

Question 31

Which of these was NOT a reason for the growth in the German economy:

Accepted Answer

Kaiser's focus on modernisation

Question 32

In what year did Caprivi resign?

Accepted Answer

1894

Question 33

What were the 'May laws' also known as?

Accepted Answer

Falk laws

Question 34

What percentage of the German population lived in towns of over 2000 population in 1871?

Accepted Answer

36%

Question 35

Trade union membership stood at over 3 million by what year?

Accepted Answer

1913

Question 36

What did exports stand at in 1913?

Accepted Answer

10.8 billion marks

Question 37

What was the German population in 1871?

Accepted Answer

41 million

Question 38

Which chancellor came to power in 1894?

Accepted Answer

Hohenlohe

Question 39

What percentage of the total vote did the Socialists win in the 1912 elections?

Accepted Answer

35%

Question 40

In what year did the SPD become the largest party in the Reichstag?

Accepted Answer

1912

Question 41

Which party had 35 seats in the Reichstag by 1890?

Accepted Answer

SPD

Question 42

In what year was Germany buying nearly £200 million of foreign goods?

Accepted Answer

1890

Question 43

Hours of work were restricted to a maximum of what for women under Caprivi's social reforms?

Accepted Answer

11

Question 44

In what year did WW1 start?

Accepted Answer

1914

Question 45

What was the rate of infant mortality by 1912?

Accepted Answer

15%

Question 46

How many people voted for the SPD in 1890?

Accepted Answer

1.5 million

Question 47

What was the coal output in millions of tonnes in 1910?

Accepted Answer

222

Question 48

In what year was the Daily Telegraph affair?

Accepted Answer

1907

Question 49

In what year did Bulow negotiate the 'Bulow bloc'?

Accepted Answer

1907

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