1918 - 1929

Question 1

1918 (post war conditions)

Answer 1

• Fuel shortages
• Starvation
• Flu virus
• Army forced to retreat

Question 2

October 2nd 1918

Answer 2

Allies say they will make peace if Germany becomes more democratic - gives more power to Reichstag

Question 3

November 2nd 1918

Answer 3

Armistice signed. Kaiser abdicates and Ebert becomes leader of Germany.

Question 4

January 5th 1919, January 10th

Answer 4

Sparticist uprising

• they occupy public buildings and organise a strike
• the workers would not comply and didn’t want to join the uprising
• Freikorps crushed the uprising
• Rosa Luxembourg was murdered

Question 5

January 10th 1920

Answer 5

Treaty of versailles comes into affect

• War guilt clause
• £6600 million in reparations
• Army reduced to 100,000
• 6 battleships
• no airforce
• 13% of land reduction
• no troops in the Rhineland
• polish corridor
• all colonies taken away

Question 6

June 28th 1919

Answer 6

Treaty of Versailles signes

Question 7

March 13th 1920

Answer 7

Kapp Putsch

• 12,00 Freikorps marched into Berlin in protest of being disbanded
• The gorvenment fled for 4 days
• Wolfgang Kapp took charge
• Major protests against them, people wouldnt cooperate.
• Wolfgang had to flee :(

Question 8

March 1920

Answer 8

Red rising in the Ruhr

- 50,000 communists occupy the Ruhr but are crushed the Freikorps

Question 9

December 1922

Answer 9

Germany announces it it cannot pay reparations for the next 3 years. France is like nahhhhh

Question 10

January 1923

Answer 10

• 60,000 French and Belgian troops take over the Ruhr
• Passive resistance is instilled by government
• This kickstarts hyperinflation

Question 11

September 1923

Answer 11

Chancellor Stresemann is appointed

• calls off passive resistance
• promises to pay reparations
• french and belgian are like god fineee and leave

Question 12

October 1923

Answer 12

Stresemann creates the Rentenmark

Question 13

November 8th 1923

Answer 13

Munich Putsch

• Nazis had 55,000 members
• Hitler prearranged a rebellion with Kahr and Lossow, (two nationalist polititions) but they backed out
• 2000 men marched into the centre of Munich while Kahr was making a speech in the Beer Hall
• At gunpoint, Hitler forced the two to agree to the rebellion but as soon as he let them leave they backed out
• Next day 16 Nazis were killed in a squabble (hehe) with police and Hilter was arrested for treason

Question 14

April 1924

Answer 14

Hilter sentenced to 5 years in prison even though it should have been death. Judge was leniant. Also, Hitler used trial as a publicity tool. He became a nationalist hero.

Question 15

1924

Answer 15

DAWES PLAN

• Charles Dawes, an american budgeter, agreed to allow Germany to have longer to pay reparations
• He also agreed to loan German 800 million gold marks to kickstart their economy

Question 16

February 1925

Answer 16

Hindenburg elected as president. He was a popular WW1 leader.

Question 17

October 1925

Answer 17

LOCARNO PACT

- Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany agreed not to invade each other and to peacefully settle any disputes.

Question 18

May 1926

Answer 18

Hitler becomes leader of Nazis

Question 19

October 1926

Answer 19

Germany is allowed to join the League of Nations as a worl power status. Stresemann was awarded a noble peace prize

Question 20

1929

Answer 20

YOUNG PLAN

-Lowered reparations like a lot.

Question 21

October 1929

Answer 21

Stresemann the lad dies :(((((((

Question 22

1929

Answer 22

Wall Street Crash in America means they withdraw their loans to Germany and the Germans are, shall we put it, fucked.