History- nazi germany Flashcards
what happened in 1918 for the Weimar government?
Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates the throne due to opposition from ww2
what happened on the 25th of October 1918?
soldiers refused to fight at kiel
who started leading Germany after the king abdicated?
the social democrats
what two major things did the social democrats do?
sign the Armistice
singed the tov
what other partied existed?
KDP SPD centre party DNVP NSDAP
what was the TOV?
Clause 231
blaming Germany for the war
what did the TOV lead to?
Germany pay back £6600 million to countries after the war
rhine land wasn’t allowed any German troops I=to be entered for 15 years and to be occupied by allies
German territory’s were given away- Alsace Lorraine was given to France
how often would the new president be elected and what would they control?
every 7 year
army
airforce
navy
what does proportional representation mean?
every party would have seats, the main party would have the most seats and made coalitions
what was article 48?
could be abused and allowed president to make themselves dictators
who were the sparticist uprising?
communist group, opposed Weimar government, first serious threat to the Weimar, began 5th of January 1919
why did the sparticists fail?
lack of support from other groups
poor organisation
how many sparticists did they kill using 2000 friekorps men?
100 by 15th jan
what was the kapp putsch?
Wolfgang kapp and 12000 supporters, marched into berlin and declared a new government
why did the kapp putsch fail?
lack of leadership from army members, only concentrated in berlin, wasn’t widley well known
what did the government do after the kapp putsch?
fled to presden and continued there, ended the rebellion
why did not punishing the friekorps men do?
shows weakness of government as recognised how strong they are
what happened in 1923?
invasion of the Ruhr failure to pay reperations, killed over 100 germans, 15000 german workers were thrown out their houses, very poor hyperinflation everything was expensive 1 egg= 80 marks paid debts
munich putsch?
600 sa members marched into beer hall and announced new government
led by lundernoff and hitler
16 Nazis kills
successes of putsch?
hitler= great speaker
democratic methods for hitler
mein kampf