Denmark's History

Ib Andersen came and talked abt a little bit of History.Even if usually history can rime with boring this teacher present his material in such a way that it has been very interesting. He started from the very begining the ice age until Denmark today. Of course i will not tell the "history" all over again but will rather comment on the parts i found interesting:

• In 1848 was the birth of Democracy where ppl were wanting to get away from the monarchy. There was a revolution but a peaceful one whereby there was no war no deaths no famines ect. Thing i find pretty amazing that the King wanted to give away his monopolic power and shared it with the population!Men only could vote and had to be over 30.

• In 1864, southern Jutland was under Germanic power.After the first WWar was it restituated to Denmark. After that, DK was mainly an agriculturak sociery whereby quality of the products was not very good and the grains were expensive. Cooperative started to be formed locally and dairy products and bacon started to be exported. It was a successful historical experience.

At the end of the 19th century industrialisation occured and migration from country side to the towns. Workers' conditions was terrible thus they started forming trade unions and the social democratic parties immerged. At the start if the 20th century more precisely in 1914 suffrage for woman in 1930's a big econommic crisis striked Denmark creating high level of unemployment.
1940-1945: the second WWar occupation situation during which Denmark kept a relative low profile but there was anyway resistance movement and actions such as sabotating railways and factories and those who were caught were sent to concentration camps.During the war no light was permitted in houses so as not to be detected from the sky.In May 1945, the allied came and free Copenhagen adn after that, Welfare state Era started: the "from cradle to the grave" concept waas born too thereby there was care from nusery to old people. Equality was the uppermost philsophy and high taxes rates were also present to sustain the system.
And more recently, The ghetto and immigration issue is on the front page in newspaper. There is a Fear of Islam and association of terrorism to this Religion. There is also a wave of new nationalism.
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