Weimar 1919-1929

Question 1

How long did the Weimar Republic Last?

Answer 1

1919-1933

Question 2

How did the Weimar Republic elect members into the Reichstag?

Answer 2

• Proportional Representation

- number of seats every party had in the Reichstag was based on the number of votes they recieved.

Question 3

Why were there many coalition governments?

Answer 3

-The P.R system made it difficult for any one party to achieve an overall majority

Question 4

What is Article 48?

Answer 4

• During time’s of crisis the President could use it to declare a ‘state of emergency’ and rule by presidential decree
• laws could be passed without approval of Reichstag

Question 5

How frequent was there a change in government during the Weimar republic?

Answer 5

• nine elections

- two in each year of 1923 and 1932

Question 6

When was the treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 6

28 June 1919

Question 7

What did the German people see the treaty of Versailles as?

Answer 7

‘Dolchstoss’ - stabbed in the back

Question 8

What did leading politicians describe the Treaty of Versailles as?

Answer 8

‘Gewaltfrieden’ - an enforced peace

Question 9

How much did Germany need to pay in reparations?

Answer 9

6600 million pounds

Question 10

What were the sanctions on the army for the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 10

• reduce army to 100,000 men
• only 6 battleships
• not allowed to build tanks, aeroplanes and submarines

Question 11

What land did Germany lose in the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 11

• German colonies were given away
• Alsace-Lorraine back to France
• forbidden to unite with Austria
• demilitarise the Rhineland
• lost Polish corridor

Question 12

What were the November Criminals?

Answer 12

nickname given to politicians who signed the Treaty of Versailles

Question 13

What was the Spartacist Uprising?

Answer 13

• January 1919 in Berlin
• Aim to bring communist revolution
• Crushed easily by Reichswehr (army)
• Spartacist leader Rosa luxembourg died

Question 14

What happened in the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 14

• on March 1920
• right wing groups
• because government planned to reduced Reichswehr (army) in size
• collapsed as trade unions declared a General Strike
• Led by Wolfgang Kapp

Question 15

When did HYPERINFLATION start in Germany?

Answer 15

early 1923

Question 16

Why did Hyperinflation happen i nEarly 1923?

Answer 16

• Germany had borrowed to much money and large debts because of the costs of war
• combatted it with printing more money

Question 17

Why and when did Belgium and France decided to send troops to the Ruhr?

Answer 17

• in January 1923

- as Germany failed to pay it’s reparations instalment

Question 18

How did the Weimar Republic react to the occupation?

Answer 18

Passive resistance

Question 19

When did Gustav Stressemann became chancellor and what did he do?

Answer 19

Summer of 1923, introduced anew currency

Question 20

When was the Dawes plan accepted then came into effect?

Answer 20

August 1924 and September 1924

Question 21

What did the Dawe’s plan consist of?

Answer 21

• USA would give loans to Germany
• payment were made more sensible and manageable
• The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation

Question 22

What was the new currency Stressemann introduced and when?

Answer 22

• Rentenmark (based on property values rather than gold reserves)
• November 1923

Question 23

What is the Young Plan and when?

Answer 23

• 1929

- reparations were lowered from 6600 million to 1850 million

Question 24

How much did unemployment fall because of Stresseman and the young plan and Dawe’s plan?

Answer 24

• 9 million unemployed in 1926 to 6 million in 1928

Question 25

What is the Lacarno Pact and when?

Answer 25

• signed with Britain, France, Belgium and Italy
• keep existing borders between Germany, France, Belgium
• Germany signed voluntarily
  1925

Question 26

When did Germany come into the league of nations and why?

Answer 26

• so the Locarno pact can come into operation

1926

Question 27

What is the Kellog- Briand pact and when?

Answer 27

• 1928

- keep armies for ‘self defence’ and solve all disputes peacefully

Question 28

What 3 thing did Stresemann do?

Answer 28

• In 1925, France withdrew from the Ruhr
• The allies agreed to the Dawe’s plan and the Young plan
• In 1927, Allied troops withdrew from the west bank of the Rhine, before the original schedule of 1933

Question 29

What were evidence that Germany was going for a golden age?

Answer 29

• Unemployment fell
• 1919, women were given the right to vote
• 1928,wages had increased by 10 percent and homelessness reduced by 60 percent

Question 30

What were evidence AGAINST a golden age?

Answer 30

• Middle class had been affected by the hyperinflation crisis of 1923
• shortage of housing
• April 1928, 184,000 middle class workers were unemployed

Question 31

What were evidence AGAINST a golden age?

Answer 31

• Middle class had been affected by the hyperinflation crisis of 1923
• shortage of housing
• April 1928, 184,000 middle class workers were unemployed

Question 32

What were evidence AGAINST a golden age?

Answer 32

• Middle class had been affected by the hyperinflation crisis of 1923
• shortage of housing
• April 1928, 184,000 middle class workers were unemployed