Politics

Question 1

What was Proportional Reprisentation?

Answer 1

The seats in the Reichstag were allocated to the different parties according to the number of votes they received

Question 2

How many votes would gain one seat?

Answer 2

60,000

Question 3

What are the positives of Proportional Reprisentation?

Answer 3

Everyone’s vote counts and Everyone is represented

Question 4

What are the negitives of Proportional Reprisentation?

Answer 4

• Extremist parties are represented
• No one can agree

Question 5

What’s a coalition government?

Answer 5

When more than one party is in power

Question 6

Social Democratic Party
SPD
⬅️ 1️⃣

Answer 6

• Socialist party
• Largest political party for most of Weimar period
• Reprisents working class
• Led by Friedrich Ebert

Question 7

Independent Social Democratic Party
USPD
⬅️ 🚫 1️⃣
🟧 🦅

Answer 7

• Splinter group from SPD
• Radical socialist

Question 8

Communist party
KPD

Answer 8

• German communist movement

Question 9

German Democratic Party
DDP
⬅️🧠👔
🟧 🦅

Answer 9

• Left wing, social Liberal party
• Democratic government
• Sympathetic to Weimar Republic
• Supported by Liberal intellectuals and businessmen

Question 10

Centre Party Z
✝️
✅️ 🦅

Answer 10

• Catholic Party
• was prepared to participate in a democratic government
• Supported Weimar
• Similarities to SPD

Question 11

German People’s Party
DVP
➡️💸
❌️ 🦅

Answer 11

• Right wing Liberal party
• Opposed Weimar Republic
• Led by Gustav Stressemann

Question 12

Bavarian Peoples Party
BVP
➡️🚫✝️
❌️ 🦅

Answer 12

• A branch of the centre party
• A more conservative program
• Willing to work with anti democratic politicians

Question 13

German National People’s Party
DNVP
➡️. 🇩🇪
❌️🦅

Answer 13

• Right wing, Conservative, nationalist
• Opposed to Weimar Republic
• Wanted authoritarian government

Question 14

National Socialist German Workers Party NSDAP
➡️➡️👑
❌️ 🦅

Answer 14

• Far right wing, anti democratic, nationalist
• Wanted to re establish an authoritarian government

Question 15

Positives of the new constitution

Answer 15

• Men and women over 20 could vote
• Chancellor voted every 7 years
• Voting is no longer based on wealth
• Civil rights: freedom of speech, education, workers’ rights.
• Less social hierarchy

Question 16

Negitives of the new constitution

Answer 16

• Article 48
• Reichsrat overruled by Reichstag
• Head of state still had ultimate power
• Presidant referred to as Substitute Kaiser (Ensatz Kaiser)

Question 17

What was the stab in the back theory?

Answer 17

• That the politicians were to blame for losing the war
• They betrayed the soldiers

Question 18

Who were the November Criminals?
❄️🥷

Answer 18

• The new government
• Because they stabbed them in the back
• Signed the Treaty of Versilles

Question 19

Who did Hindenburg and Ludendorff blame for the war?

Answer 19

• The government
• They didn’t support the army enough

Question 20

Why was Stab in the back such a popular belief?

Answer 20

• Respected generals believed it
• Was used in propaganda

Question 21

Evidence against stab in the back:

Answer 21

Officers reported:
• Troops were exhausted
• Lack of supplies
• Close to being invaded
• Officers surrendering

Question 22

How many countries were involved ith the treaty?

Answer 22

32

Question 23

Key dates of the treaty 1919

Answer 23

• 16th June presented with terms
• 20th June Chancellor Scheidemnn resuses to sign and resigns
• 28th June Foregin Minister Muller signs

Question 24

Who were the allied leaders?

Answer 24

🇺🇸 Wodrow Wilson
🇫🇷 George Clemenceau
🇬🇧 David Lloyd Georege

Question 25

What we're the military terms of the treaty? 🪖

Answer 25

• Army reduced to 100,000 • Abolition of conscription • No tanks, aircraft, submarines • To reassure France they would not invade • To weak for attack only enough for basic defence • Was seen as a humiliation

Question 26

What we're the territorial losses of the treaty? 🏝

Answer 26

• Lost 13% of land • 6.5 million of population no longer German • 1/2 million now part of Poland • 15% of agriculture lost • 48% Iron ore lost • Polish corridor cut through Germany • Alsace Lorraine given back to french • Rhineland demilitarised

Question 27

What did the treaty say about war guilt? ☹️

Answer 27

Article 231 stated Germany had to take full responsibility

Question 28

Reparations 💵🧾

Answer 28

• Total amount was agreed in April 1921 • Seen as a blank cheque • £6.6 billion in 30 years • Compensation for physical damage in France and Belgium • Britain got pensions for widows and soldiers • Germany felt it would be passed on to future generations

Question 29

Arguments the treaty was to harsh

Answer 29

• It was Diktak, dictated to them • Not invited to negotiate • Threat of invasion, British blockade • Loss of resources • No way to pay reparations • Alienated people who may have supported the Republic

Question 30

Arguments the treaty was not to harsh

Answer 30

• Clemenceau wanted it worse • Alsace Lorraine was origianly French • Austria and Germany had never joined • wasn't as harsh as the Brest - Litvosk treaty 1917 • Economy managed to recover in 1920's