Question factors

Question 1

How accurate is it to say that the Weimar Republic failed to make significant change from the Kaiserreich??

Answer 1

• Bill of rights (women and empowerment too)
• Democracy/ proportional representation/ voting
• Leadership
• Judiciary and army

Question 2

To what extent did the social and political problems which existed under the Kaiserreich get enhanced by the war?

Answer 2

• Social ie upper lower class divide, SPD, deaths in war
• Political ie silent dictatorship, Kreuznach programme/Erzberger
• Economic- Depression under Bismarck v KRA, Hindeburg programme, war bonds and food/fuel shortages

Question 3

How far did the events of 1917 amount to a serious political crisis?

Answer 3

• Breakdown of the Burgfriede
• Silent dictatorship
• Kreuznach programme/zimmermann telegram/ Erzberger

Question 4

To what extent did the events of October 1918 to January 1919 amount to a revolution?

Answer 4

• ‘revolution from below’/ Prince mass abdication
• Spartacist uprising
• Ebert’s agreements/ reforms
• Judiciary/army/ upholding upper classes