key topic 1

Question 1

When was the WWI armistice signed

Answer 1

11th November 1918

Question 2

Why did the French Occupation of Ruhr 1923 happen

Answer 2

Germant requested to stop paying reparations to Britain and France for the next 4 years; Treaty of Rapallo in Russia 1922 made a mutual, secret relationship

Question 3

When was the Kapp Putsch

Answer 3

march 1920

Question 4

what was the point in the Kapp Putsch

Answer 4

right-wing attempt by Wolf Kapp and Friekorps to takeover in Berlin of Weimar government and establish dictatorship

Question 5

what caused the Kapp Putsch

Answer 5

the treaty of Versailles declared disbandment of Friekorps- made them angry,

Question 6

why did Kapp Putsch fail

Answer 6

general strike of workers called by Weimer government who fled worked and paralyzed Berlin making it impossible for Kapp to govern so he fled

Question 7

When was the Spartacist uprising

Answer 7

1919

Question 8

what was the spartacist uprising

Answer 8

Communist revolt led by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht aiming to challenge Weimer overnment by striking, seizing government buildings and acts of violence

Question 9

why did the spartacist uprising fail

Answer 9

lack of clear direction/confusion