PowerPoint (with 7 slides) that considers whether socio-economic change divided Bismarck’s Germany between 1871 and 1890.

Activities include

• Quick Quiz on previous learning about Kulturkampf and the Tariff Act.
• Data analysis task on election results in the 1870s to identify the rise of the SPD.
• Source analysis exercise on urban poverty to establish the reasons for growing support for socialism in the 1870s
• Source analysis task to explain why Bismarck passed the Anti-Socialist Law in 1878.
• Source analysis task to introduce the idea of state socialism
• Card sort to identify examples of repression or state socialism.
• Plenary discussion of data to identify whether Bismarck’s policies were successful.

Designed for the teaching of OCR History Y314 The Development of German Nationalism 1789-1919.
Lesson Length: 1hr depending on pace.

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