Establishment of the Constitution Flashcards
A government where there is a President rather than a monarch.
Republic
An agreement to suspend fighting in order to make a peace treaty.
Armistice
The rules which set out how a government should work and what powers each person has.
Constitutional
A revolt by soldiers or sailors against their orders.
Mutiny
The workers unions that took over the Communist Russia.
Soviet
An elected government who decide for how government should work.
Constituent Assembly
The upper classes, normally people who have inherited wealth.
Aristocracy
When voting across the country is added up, rather than constituencies.
Proportional Representation
A type of government where one person holds most of the power.
Autocracy
Communist party
KPD
Independent Socialist Party
USPD
Social Democrat Party
SPD
German Democratic Party
DDP
Centre Party
ZPD
German People’s Party
DVP
Nationalist People’s Party
DNVP
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the full title of the Nazi Party.
NSDAP
Ludendorff realises that Germnay are losing.
September 1918
Prince Max is made Chancellor.
October Reforms
Prince Max sends a peace note to the USA.
3rd October 1918
Kiel Mutiny
3rd November 1918
Bavaria becomes a socialist republic.
8th November 1918
Kaiser abdicates and a Republic is set up.
9th November 1918
Ebert-Groener pact
10th November 1918
The armistice is signed with the allies.
11th November 1918
Spartacist uprising in Berlin.
6th January 1919
Elections to the first assembly.
19th January 1919
Devised as a means of dealing fairly with the aftermath of the war. Some points were quite specific and punitive towards Germany. However, there was also some general principles such as the establishment of a League of Nations.
Wilson’s 14 Points
A member of the SPD party, he became the first Chancellor in the new German Republic in November 1918 and its first President in 1919.
Friedrich Ebert
Ebert assured Groener that the government was determined to resist further revolution and to uphold the existing command structure in the army.
Ebert-Groener Pact
