Unit 4

Question 1

Who were the largest party of the first government in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 1

SPD

Question 2

What percentage of the vote did the SPD win in the National Assembly of January 1919?

Answer 2

38%

Question 3

How often was a president to be elected under the Weimar constitution?

Answer 3

Every seven years

Question 4

Who had the power to select and dismiss the chancellor under the Weimar constitution?

Answer 4

The president

Question 5

Who was the supreme commander of the armed forces under the Weimar constitution?

Answer 5

President

Question 6

What was article 25 of the new constitution?

Answer 6

The president could dissolve the Reichstag and call new elections within 60 days of the dissolution

Question 7

How often were Reichstag elections to be held under the Weimar constitution?

Answer 7

Four years

Question 8

What was article 48 of the new constitution?

Answer 8

The president could rule via decree in the event of an emergency

Question 9

What rights were enshrined in the Weimar constitution?

Answer 9

Freedom of speech, association and religion
The right to work
A provision giving workers special protection in the new state
Welfare rights (such as protection for the disabled)
The right to own property(business could not be nationalised without compensation)

Question 10

Who could vote in the reichstag elections under the Weimar constitution?

Answer 10

Universal suffrage over 20

Question 11

What was a problem with proportional representation?

Answer 11

It created a fragmented party system which made it difficult to form a majority//durable coalition governments

Question 12

Who were the pro Weimar parties in 1919?

Answer 12

The SPD, centre party and DDP

Question 13

Briefly describe the stab in the back myth?

Answer 13

Myth that German army could’ve continued in the war and were betrayed by a left wing government

Question 14

Who were Germany banned from making unions with under the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 14

Austria

Question 15

What was the treaty of Versailles widely seen as in germany?

Answer 15

A diktat or dictated peace

Question 16

When was the spartacist uprising?

Answer 16

1919

Question 17

How many political assassinations were carried out by right wing death squads between 1919-1922?

Answer 17

354

Question 18

What was the White terror?

Answer 18

Violence committed by right wing anti Weimar terrorist groups

Question 19

How many right wing political murders went unpunished?

Answer 19

326

Question 20

How many murders were committed by left wing terrorist groups between 1919 and 1922?

Answer 20

22

Question 21

How many left wing murders(as in that they committed) went unpunished between 1919 and 1924?

Answer 21

4

Question 22

How many marks were needed to buy one US dollar in 1919 and in 1923?

Answer 22

1919-12

1923-17,000

Question 23

What article did Ebert rule via during the Munich Putsch?

Answer 23

Article 48

Question 24

Who led the spartacists?

Answer 24

Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg

Question 25

What were the aims of the spartacists?

Answer 25

• wanted to follow in footsteps of Russian Rev
• cancel National Assembly election
• all power transferred to worker be soldiers councils
• nationalise all large scale farms
• police/army disarmed, workers militias created

Question 26

When was the Ebert Groener agreement?

Answer 26

November 1918

Question 27

What was agreed on the ebert Groener agreement?

Answer 27

• army were promised supplies and protection of its status

- army promised to put down revolutionary activity with force

Question 28

Why was the Spartacist revolution crushed so easily?

Answer 28

It was poorly planned

Question 29

What was a negative of the Ebert Groener agreement?

Answer 29

Republic were tied to using anti democratic forces to ‘restore order’
The organisations they used to end violence were often the ones that initiated it

Question 30

How many army//friekorps were sent in to red Bavaria to crush the rebellion?

Answer 30

30,000

Question 31

What was the participation like in the January 1919 election?

Answer 31

High, approx 85%

Question 32

What type of peace did France want after World War One?

Answer 32

Carthaginian peace (harsh type of peace designed to maintain inferiority/humiliation of the loser)

Question 33

What was article 231 of the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 33

Germany was solely responsible for the outbreak of war

Question 34

Where did the allies demilitarise and say they would occupy for 15 years under the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 34

The Rhineland

Question 35

What happened to the Kiel canal due to the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 35

It was opened to warships and merchants from all nations

Question 36

What did article 80 of the treaty of Versailles forbid?

Answer 36

Anschluss (union with Austria)

Question 37

What were the military terms of the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 37

• no military aircraft
• no submarine
• army limited to 100,000 men
• 6 battleships
• 6 cruisers
• 12 destroyers

Question 38

What type of system was used to elect representatives in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 38

Party list system-people voted for a party rather than an individual

Question 39

When was the Kapp-Putsch?

Answer 39

March 1920

Question 40

Why did the kapp regime collapse?

Answer 40

A large general strike paralysed the republic

Question 41

What did article 54 of the Weimar constitution guarantee?

Answer 41

The judiciary maintained their independence

Question 42

What happened to the currency in 1923?

Answer 42

It collapsed

Question 43

When was the Retenmark established?

Answer 43

November 1923