Impact Of WW1 Flashcards
Treaty of Versailles date
28th June 1919
Conditions of the Treaty of Versailles
(LAMB)
Rhineland demilitarised
Lost all overseas colonies
Alsaire-Lorraine to France
Army reduced to 100,000 men and internal only l
No airforce/tanks/submarines
£6.6 billion reparations
Must take full blame for WW1
Could not join League of Nations (article 231)
Spartasist Uprising date
Jan 1919
Spartacist uprising (what happened?)
Leaders: Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Leibnecht
The spartacists had clashed with the army, and formed the KPD (communists)
- attempted to overthrow the Weimar government & create a communist state
- used papers and controlled newspapers
How did the Spartacist Uprising end?
President used the army and Freikorps to stop the rebellion
- over in days
- leaders killed
- further uprisings in March/April and 1000+ killed
Kapp Putsch date
1920
Kapp Putsch
Leaders: Wolfgang Kapp
- Freikorps had helped fight against the spartacists
- govt announced it would reduce the army and disband Freikorps
- there was outrage so the party decided to overthrow the govt
Kapp Putsch results
Freikorps were more powerful than Spartacists (ex-army officers)
Govt called a strike and temporarily left Berlin
French occupation of the Ruhr date
Jan 1923
French occupation of the Ruhr
- Germany = default on reparations + reliant on USA loans
- France angry and thought Germany didn’t want to pay up
- France + Belgium sent troops into the Ruhr Valley (Germany couldn’t defend themselves)
- French took payment in like (eg. Resources like coal)
- Germans performed “acts of industrial sabotage”, some workers were shot creating anger
- Govt still wanted to pay their workers so they printed more money
—> causing HYPERINFLATION
Hyperinflation
November 1923
$1 = 4210 billion marks!
Germans burned money as it was cheaper than buying wood!
Loaf of bread = 130m marks
