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Germany 1918-1923 Flashcards

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What happened to the kaiser

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The kaiser Wilhelm abdicated and moved to holland on the 9th of november 1918

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Who did the Sailors refuse to fight and where were they stationed

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They refused to fight the Royal Navy and wilhemshaven and Kiel

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Who set up a new government and when

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On the 9th of December freidrich ebert and also declared Germany a republic

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What is an armistice and when was it signed

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It was signed on the 11th of May 1918 and an armistice is a ceasefire

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Left wing ?

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Someone who wants complete changes in the government

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Right wing

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Wants their country to stay the same

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Spartacists

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Led by rosa Luxembourg And Karl liebknect

Believed Germany should be ran by Russian style workers council not the reichstag

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The free corps

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Ex soldiers recently returned from war who hated communists and assisted ebert

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Berlin uprising

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March 1919
Communists organised riots in an attempt to seize power
Over 1000 killed by the free corps

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Elections for parliament

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Jan 1919

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Weakness of the constitution

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Severe economic problems caused by
War debt
Reparations
Decline in foreign trade 
Politicians were inexperienced
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Treaty of Versailles

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Signed in the palace of Versailles 28th of June 1919

  • Germany had to accept full responsibility for the war
  • conscription banned
  • army limited to 100,000
  • Germany had to pay 6,600million in reparations
  • Germany wasn’t allowed to join the League of Nations until it had shown It could be a peace loving country
  • Poland was given west Prussia and Posen and France was given back Alsace Lorraine
  • the anschluss (which mean union) between Austria and Germany was annulled
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Why was the treaty so harsh ?

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So that Germany was too weak to start another war, it also kept the French border safe from Germany

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The treaty was called what?

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The diktat (dictated piece)

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The politicians were nicknamed what

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The November criminals for signing the armistice/ ceasefire in November

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The kapp putsch

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March 1920
- Lead by Wolfgang kapp, the aim was to make the army bigger, the supporters were the ex soldiers and the opponents were the government and the free corps as the free corps were fighting againist their own army

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The red rising

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March 1920
Communist uprising in the Ruhr Germany’s industrial heartland
Aim- to gain social and economic equality
- the free corps crushed the revolt

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Political assassinations

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Foreign minister Walter rathenaunmurdered jun 1922

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Political murders

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356 murders took place

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The economic crisis
Why did France invade and where

  • what did the German government tell the workers to do
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France invaded the Ruhr (Germany’s industrial heartland) because Germany stopped paying reparations.

The Germany government told them to engage in passive resistance

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Germany’s economy after the Ruhr invasion

  • strategy to this
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The impact was that the Ruhr wasn’t producing anything (reduced the country’s income), the Ruhr workers still had to be paid even though they weren’t working

  • the Germany government then printed lots and lots of money and the country entered hyper inflation
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Hyperinflation negatives

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People’s life savings ment nothing

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Hyperinflation positives

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People with loans benefited as they could pay them of easily

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Hyperinflation
how was it solved?
And who solved it

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The crisis was ended by gustav streseman

-By an send to passive resistance
-promise to resume paying reparations
- nov 1923
- new currency introduced the rentenmark,
From the reichbank

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Who became foreign minister

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Gustav streseman

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Hitler became chancellor

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Jan 1933

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Wall Street crash

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29th October 1929

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Treaties signed

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Locarno

Rapallo

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Bruning name

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Hunger chancellor

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Year if 4 elections

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1932

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Nazi seats

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12- 230

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How did von papen convince Hindenburg

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He said there is only gonna be 3 nazi ministers out of 12 in the cabinet

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Heinrich bruning took office left office

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1930-1932

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