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Reparations

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Compensation payments to countries affected by the war

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Abdication

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When the monarch resigns from the throne

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Kaiser

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German emperor

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Republic

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A country without a monarch (but with a president)

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Armistice

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The ceasefire at the end of WWI

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Article 231 (War Guilt Clause)

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An part of the Treaty of Versailles where Germany had to admit they were fully to blame for WWI

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Revolution

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Overthrow of the government

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Diktat

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A dictated peace used in Germany to describe TofV because Germany had no say in the treaty.

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Weimar Republic

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The government replacing the Kaiser

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Spartacists

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A group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and revolted in 1919

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Treaty of Versailles

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A document signed by Germany and allies, ending war. Controversial because of excessive harsh treatment of Germany.

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Kapp Putsch

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A group of German nationalists/fascists formed in 1920 attempting to overthrow democratically elected government in Germany in 1920.

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Proportional Representation

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Electoral system where parties gained seats in proportion to the percentage of votes cast for them - meant many coalitions and nobody could agree in Reichstag.

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Stab-in-the-back Theory

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Theory that Germany was going to win the war but the Republic who signed the TofV lost the war.

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Passively resistant

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Demonstrating without using violence

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Hyperinflation

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Process of money becoming worthless and this occurred when too much money was printed in Germany in 1923.

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Ruhr

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Main industrial area of Germany in the northwest where the French expelled people from in 1923.

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Constitution

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The laws that make up a country

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President

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The elected head of a republican state

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Gustav Stresemann

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Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister in 1923-29: he took Weimar Germany out of darkest hour to so-called Golden Age (fixed hyperinflation)

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The Dawes Plan

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USA lent money to Germany to help pay reparations in 1924

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Rentenmark

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The currency issued in 1923 by Gustav Stresemann to stop hyperinflation.

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Freikorps

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Ex-military soldiers, rose in rebellion

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Fascist

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Radical authoritarian, extreme right-wing, intolerant of different beliefs

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Putsch

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Violent attempt to overthrow the government

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Locarno Treaties

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Stresemann proposed in 1929 that France, Germany and Belgium should recognise as permanent thei

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‘Golden Age’

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A period in time when everything improved for Germany: culturally, economically and politically

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Nazi

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A member of National Socialist German Worker’s party

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Ebert

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President of Germany 1919-25. He was first democratically elected president and first of Weimar Republic.

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Freikorps

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Ex-soldiers in Germany after WWI

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Kapp Putsch

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Attempt to overthrow democratically elected government in Germany in 1920 by Wolfgang Kapp ordering Freikorps to seize Berlin and establish a new right-wing nationalist government

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November Criminals

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The German politicians who signed the TofV. This was a term of abuse exploited by extreme parties in Germany, especially the Nazis, to undermine democracy.

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Putsch

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Revolt designed to overthrow the existing government, most commonly associated with the Kapp Putsch in 1920 and the Nazi’s attempted Putsch in Munich in 1923.

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Rhineland

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Area of Germany which bordered France. The TofV said it was demilitarised - not German forces allowed there.

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Socialism

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Political system in which government takes strong control of economic and social life. In theory socialist societies would eventually become Communist societies

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Nationalism

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Strong sense of pride in your own country, sometimes directed aggressively towards other countries or minority groups

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Spartacists

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Communists in Germany in 1919 who wanted a revolution in Germany similar to the 1917 revolution in Russia - revolted in Berlin but army and Freikorps defeated them

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Trade Union

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Organisation which represents workers

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Young Plan

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American economic plan in 1929 to reorganise reparation payments to make it easier for Germany to pay

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