Book 1 - Weimar Period 1919-1929

Question 1

How long did the Weimar Republic last?

Answer 1

1919-1933

Question 2

How did voting work in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 2

by Proportional Representation

Question 3

What is Article 48?

Answer 3

• During time’s of crisis the President could use it to declare a ‘state of emergency’ and rule by presidential decree
• laws could be passed without approval of Reichstag

Question 4

How frequent was there a change in government during the Weimar republic?

Answer 4

• nine elections

- two in each year of 1923 and 1932

Question 5

When was the treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 5

28 June 1919

Question 6

What did the German people see the treaty of Versailles as?

Answer 6

‘Dolchstoss’ - stabbed in the back

Question 7

What did leading politicians describe the Treaty of Versailles as?

Answer 7

‘Gewaltfrieden’ - an enforced peace

Question 8

How much did Germany need to pay in reparations?

Answer 8

6600 million pounds

Question 9

What were the sanctions on the army for the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 9

• reduce army to 100,000 men
• only 6 battleships
• not allowed to build tanks, aeroplanes and submarines

Question 10

What land did Germany lose in the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 10

• German colonies were given away
• Alsace-Lorraine back to France
• forbidden to unite with Austria
• demilitarise the Rhineland
• lost Polish corridor

Question 11

What were the November Criminals?

Answer 11

nickname given to politicians who signed the Treaty of Versailles

Question 12

What was the Spartacist Uprising?

Answer 12

• January 1919 in Berlin
• Renamed communist party
• Aim to bring communist revolution
• Crushed easily by Reichswehr (army)
• Spartacist leader Rosa luxembourg died

Question 13

What happened in the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 13

• on March 1920
• right wing groups
• because government planned to reduced Reichswehr (army) in size
• collapsed as trade unions declared a General Strike
• Led by Wolfgang Kapp

Question 14

Who was the leader of the Freikorps?

Answer 14

Ehrhardt

Question 15

When did HYPERINFLATION start in Germany?

Answer 15

early 1923

Question 16

Why and when did Belgium and France decided to send troops to the Ruhr?

Answer 16

• in January 1923

- as Germany failed to pay it’s reparations instalment

Question 17

How did the Weimar Republic react to the occupation?

Answer 17

Passive resistance

Question 18

When did Gustav Stressemann became chancellor and what did he do?

Answer 18

Summer of 1932, introduced anew currency

Question 19

When was the Dawes plan accepted then came into effect?

Answer 19

August 1924 and September 1924

Question 20

What did the Dawe’s plan consist of?

Answer 20

• USA would give loans to Germany
• payment were made more sensible and manageable
• The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation

Question 21

What was the new currency Stressemann introduced and when?

Answer 21

• Rentenmark (based on property values rather than gold reserves)
• November 1923

Question 22

What is the Young Plan and when?

Answer 22

• 1929

- reparations were lowered from 6600 million to 1850 million

Question 23

What is the Lacarno Pact and when?

Answer 23

• signed with Britain, France, Belgium and Italy
• keep existing borders between Germany, France, Belgium
• Germany signed voluntarily

Question 24

When did Germany come into the league of nations and why?

Answer 24

• so the Locarno pact can come into operation

- September 1926

Question 25

What is the Kellog- Briand pact and when?

Answer 25

• 1928

- keep armies for ‘self defence’ and solve all disputes peacefully