The Establishment Of The Weimar Republic And Its Early Problems

Question 1

Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd abdicated

Answer 1

9th November 1918

Question 2

Treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 2

28th June 1919

Question 3

Armistice to end world war 1

Answer 3

11th November 1918

Question 4

Democracy was introduced what did this allow

Answer 4

People voted for Reichstag members every 4 years
People voted for presidents every 7 years
Proportional representation
11 governments from 1919 - 1923

Question 5

What was article 48

Answer 5

President could pass laws undermining democracy

Question 6

Middle class disliked liberal culture. what did this lead to

Answer 6

Kapp putsch in march 1920

Question 7

How much did Germany have to pay through reparations

Answer 7

132,000 million marks

Question 8

Army was limited to

Answer 8

100,000 troops

Question 9

Lost land 2 examples

Answer 9

West Prussia to Poland

Alsace-Lorraine to France

Question 10

What was article 231

Answer 10

War guilt. Germany took blame for starting the war

Question 11

What were the government members called after signing the treaty

Answer 11

November criminals

Question 12

What was the spartacist uprising and when was it

Answer 12

January 1919

100,000 Spartacist league communists took over Berlin

Ebert asked the freikorps ( military veterans) to fight

Question 13

Effects of the spartacist uprising

Answer 13

Parties grew their own army and political violence increased

Inspired other revolts like the Kapp putsch 1920

Question 14

When was the Kapp putsch

Answer 14

March 1920

Question 15

What was the Kapp Putsch

Answer 15

120,000 Freikorps took over the Government in Berlin because they wanted the Kaiser back

Question 16

How did the Kapp Putsch inspire other extremism parties

Answer 16

Inspired the 1923 Munich Putsch

Question 17

Why did the french occupation of the Ruhr happen

Answer 17

French and Belgium troops invaded the Ruhr because Germany had fallen behind on the reparations

Question 18

When was the french occupation of the Ruhr

Answer 18

January 1923

Question 19

Why was hyperinflation an effect of the occupation of the Ruhr

Answer 19

Ruhr contained 80% of the German coal/iron resources
Led to economic struggle.
Government started to print money and it became almost worthless

Question 20

Hyperinflation causes

Answer 20

Large cost from fighting
The Versailles 132,000 million marks reparations
Germany lost land
Ruhr crisis

Question 21

Hyperinflation effects

Answer 21

Increases prices
Fewer imports - food shortages

Example bread was 1 mark 1919 and 100,000 marks in 1923

Question 22

Why did the governments popularity decrease as a result of hyperinflation

Answer 22

Middle class Germans savings became worthless and they blamed the government

Dissatisfaction led to the Munich putsch in November 1923