Opposition, Support, Control 1918-1933

Question 1

Nov 1918

Answer 1

Ebert-Groener Pact agreed

Question 2

Jan 1919

Answer 2

Spartakist Uprising

Question 3

1919

Answer 3

First elections show strong support for moderate democratic

SPD= 38%, Centre Party= 20%

Question 4

March 1919

Answer 4

Bavarian Socialist Republic set up. Crushed in May 1919

Question 5

June 1919

Answer 5

Treaty of Versailles signed

Question 6

March 1920

Answer 6

Kapp Putsch.

Left retaliated with Ruhr Uprising

Question 7

1919-22

Answer 7

Operation Consul organised over 450 political assassinations

Question 8

1922

Answer 8

Law for the Protection of the Republic (clampdown on violent extremism)

Question 9

1923

Answer 9

• Beer Hall Putsch in Munich led by Hitler and Ludendorff
• The Kustrin Putsch
• ‘German October’ - wave of strikes and socialist government set up in Saxony

Question 10

1924

Answer 10

May elections- decline is support for SPD (only 20%), rise in KPD (12.6%) and NSDAP (6.5%)

Question 11

1928

Answer 11

• Elections show support for moderate parties (SPD= 30%)
• NSDAP less than 3%.
• Rise of support for KPD - won over 50 seats in the Reichstag, over 14% of vote.
• Red Fighting Leauge had over 130,000 members before disband in 1929

Question 12

1929

Answer 12

Referendum against the Young Plan was organised by right wing nationalists. Was approved by 94.5% of those who voted but only had a turnout of 14.9% which was well below the required 50%

Question 13

1930-33

Answer 13

Significant rise in support of the NSDAP (peaked to 37% in July 1932)
The SA Was banned in April 1932 but was soon lifted in June 1932