Key Words- Weimar Republic Flashcards
The Allies
WW1:Britain, Russia and France and their empires
WW2: Britain, France and their empires, later joined by the USSR and USA
Bauhaus
Modern school of design founded in Germany in 1919
Cabaret
Sometimes satirical art form practised in nightclubs, usually through dance and song. Popular in Weimar Germany.
Checks and balances
Parts of a constitution or political system that ensure that no one part of the system or individual within it can have too much power.
Dawes Plan 1924
Agreement which reduced amount of germanys annual reparation payment and provided US loans to help.
Decree
An official order or law e.g. Article 48 allowed the President to pass any law without parliaments agreement in times of emergency.
Freikorps
Parliamentary groups of volunteer soldiers. In Weimar Germany, these groups were often strongly nationalist and linked to extremist parties.
Inflation
When prices rise and the amount that can be purchased with each unit of a currency reduces: the value of the currency declines.
KPD
German Communist Party
Left wing
Political beliefs that promote the creation of a more equal society.
Munich Putsch
Attempt by the Nazi Party 1923 to seize power and start a national revolution. It failed.
Nationalist
A political idea that seeks to glorify the nation.
Passive Resistance
Resisting a government and/or state via peaceful means (e.g. German workers response to French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 was to stop working).
Proportional Representation
Electoral system in which seats allocated in parliament correspond to the way in which people vote .e.g. If 20% of seats in parliament.
Putsch
An attempt to seize power
