The early challenges to the Weimar Republic 1919-23 Flashcards
What were the Peace terms?
GARGL
What does GARGL stand for?
G = War guilt clause, which made Germany take all the blame for the war
A = Army of 100,000, demilitarisation of the Rhineland, navy of 6 battleships, no submarines, no airforce
R = Reparations = £6.6 billion = Unpayable
G = Lost Danzig port and Saar,
L = League of nations set up (UN)
What does diktat mean?
The German word for dictated - Germans felt that the peace treaty was forced upon them
What happened to Germany’s economy?
German jobs, banks and businesses were damaged by WW1 and made worse by the ToV
Who were the Freikorps?
Ex WW1 soldiers who came back home and still had their weapons. Ebert formed them into a free right wing army, they were stronger than the actual German army.
How many men were in the Freikorps by March 1919?
25,000 men
How many political murders were there between 1919-22?
376 - mostly by the right wing
When was the Spartacists uprising?
January 1919
When did Ebert sack a popular police chief in Berlin?
4th January
How many people were backed by the KDP?
100,000 people
Who led the spartacists uprising
‘Red’ Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Llebknecht
When did Ebert use the Freikorps to stop protests?
13th January
When were Luxemburg and Llebknecht executed?
16th January
When was the Kapp Putsch?
March 1920
What happened in the Kapp Putsch?
- Ebert tried to disband the Freikorps
- 5000 Freikorps marched on Berlin
- Ebert ordered the army to fire, they refused
- Wolfgang Kapp set up government and invited the Kaiser
- 4 days of strikes ended the rebellion
- Kapp caught and put in prison where he later died
