The Weimar Republic and Opposition to It

Question 1

Who was the new leader of the Weimar Republic?

Answer 1

Freidrich Ebert

Question 2

What were eberts political views?

Answer 2

Socialism

Question 3

What were eberts first actions as president of the Weimar Republic?

Answer 3

Sign the armistice with the allies

Question 4

Who were eberts right wing opponents?

Answer 4

The kaisers former army, advisors, judiciary, civil service and industry

Question 5

Who were eberts left wing opponents?

Answer 5

Communists

Question 6

When was the first democratic election in the newly formed Weimar Republic?

Answer 6

January 1919

Question 7

Why was the new government named the Weimar Republic?

Answer 7

The first meetings took place in Weimar as Berlin was unstable with lots of violent uprisings

Question 8

Name 3 similarities and 3 differences between the kaisers Germany and Weimar Germany

Answer 8

Sim: kaiser/president summons and dismisses the reichstag, kaiser/president appoints chancellor and ministers, votes for laws
Dif: Weimar had the right for free speech, Weimar had more voting opportunities, the kaiser has a say in everything whereas the president does not

Question 9

Who is left wing?

Answer 9

Communists

Question 10

Who is right wing?

Answer 10

Nazis

Question 11

Who were the middle party in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 11

Liberalism

Question 12

Who were the SDP?

Answer 12

Social Democratic Party

Question 13

Who led the SDP?

Answer 13

Freidrich Ebert

Question 14

Who was rosa Luxembourg?

Answer 14

Co founder of the spartacist league and was captured by freikorps troops during the spartacist uprising in January 1919. She was originally Jewish and was a Marxist theorist

Question 15

Who was Karl Liebnicht?

Answer 15

Co founder of the spartacist league, part of the reichstag, opposed to WWI, murdered by freikorps, lawyer for the left wing socialists, member of the SDP

Question 16

Who was Dr Kapp?

Answer 16

A strict nationalist (like hitler), leader of the Kapp putsch which was unsuccessful, died of cancer

Question 17

Who was freidrich eberts opposition during 1919-1920’s

Answer 17

• rosa Luxembourg
• Karl Liebnicht
• Dr Kapp

Question 18

Who were the freikorps?

Answer 18

Ex army members set up to protect the Weimar Republic

Question 19

What happened in August 1919?

Answer 19

The German constitution was published

Question 20

When was the Kapp putsch?

Answer 20

March 1920

Question 21

What happened in the Kapp putsch?

Answer 21

Dr Kapp matches the freikorps into Berlin and declared new government.

Question 22

When was the Kapp putsch defeated and why?

Answer 22

The 18th March 1920, they were defeated by general strike workers

Question 23

Who were the spartacists?

Answer 23

Communists

Question 24

What date did the kaiser abdicate his throne?

Answer 24

9th November 1918

Question 25

What did the spartacists want?

Answer 25

They wanted to seize power from Ebert and make Germany communist

Question 26

What happened in the spartacist uprising?

Answer 26

They organised a general strike and formed a revolution, firing guns and displaying communist flags

Question 27

What were the consequences of the spartacist uprising?

Answer 27

The freikorps shot the spartacists and killed their 2 leaders, rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebnicht

Question 28

What did Dr Kapp want?

Answer 28

Dictatorship in Germany

Question 29

What happened in the Kapp putsch?

Answer 29

The freikorps marched into Berlin and demanded a new government. The uprising nearly succeeded as over 5000 freikorps went to fight. The plan was to recover land taken from Germany during the treaty of Versailles and rebuild Germany’s military strength

Question 30

What were the consequences of the Kapp putsch?

Answer 30

Berlin stopped, there were no buses, trains, water, gas or electricity. They eventually abandoned their plans and fled to Sweden