The Weimar Republic: What problems did the Weimar Republic face?

Question 1

What were the four terms of the Treaty of Versailles that angered so many Germans?

Thinks of L.A.M.B

Answer 1

L-and
A-rmy
M-oney (reperations)]
B-lame

Question 2

List two Left-wing violent risings.

Answer 2

The spartacist rising, 1919

The red rising in the Ruhr, 1920

Question 3

List two Left-wing violent risings.

Answer 3

The Kapp Putsch, 1920

The Munich Putsch, 1923

Question 4

What happened during the Munich Putsch 1923?

Answer 4

Hitler led an unsuccessful putsch (revolt/uprising) to take over the government.

Question 5

What happened during the Spartacist rising, 1919?

Answer 5

Communist group unsuccessfully attempted to create a communist revolution and take over the govenrment in 1919.

Question 6

Who were the leaders of the Spartacist Rising?

Answer 6

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

Question 7

What happened in 1923 with the invasion of Ruhr?

Answer 7

60,000 French and Belgian troops marched into the Ruhr and seized control of all mines, factories and railways.

Question 8

What problem did the invasion of the Ruhr cause?

Answer 8

140 Germans dies in clashes with the troops. Germany economy suffered because people from the Ruhr went on strike.

Question 9

What was hyper-inflation?

Answer 9

The government prints more and more money to pay workers and to pay its debts. Prices rise at an incredible rate. At one stage an egg costs 80 million marks.

Question 10

Give 2 effects of hyper-inflation on the German people?

Answer 10

1. People in debt found it easier to pay off their loans
   HOWEVER
2. People lost all of their savings
3. Pensioners very badly hit
4. Wages could no longer support the cost of living

Question 11

Practise question: Describe the problems the Weimar Republic faces in the early 1920’s. ( 10 marks)

Answer 11

Should cover 4-5 points

Include a range of problems.
Excellent answers will consider the SIGNIFICANCE of each problem.
Explain how problems are linked.