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What was article 48

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A law giving the chancellor the right to make laws in an emergency without having majority support from the reichstag

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The Weimar government set up

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Reichstag-elected by the people

President- elected by the people every seven years

Chancellor- elected by the president. In charge of day to day running

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What is proportional representation

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The number of seats a party gets in parliament is directly proportional to the percentage of votes they received

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Give 3 disadvantages of the Weimar Republic

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Article 48- it wasn’t clarified what counted as an emergency

Proportional representation- no party was big enough to have an impact

Opposition

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Why was the Weimar government unpopular

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People didn’t like the government for signing the Treaty of Versailles.

They blamed the Weimar government for the economic crisis Germany was in.

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What is a republic?

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A country without a monarch

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In what ways was Germany in chaos between 1918 and 1919?

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  • people were starving
  • The kaiser had fled
  • The government was unpopular
  • freikorps formed private armies
  • there were constant revolts
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What caused hyperinflation?

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  • In 1923, Germany failed to pay their annual war reparations payment
  • As a result, the French invaded the Ruhr
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Spartacists revolt

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  • It happened in January 1919
  • It was a communist revolt
  • It was led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
  • 5,000 spartacists rebelled in Berlin
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The Kapp Putsch

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  • It happened in March 1920
  • It was a right ring uprising
  • It was led by Dr Wolfgang Kapp
  • The army refused to attack him
  • He was eventually defeated when Berlin workers went on strike
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The Red Army

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  • A Communist paramilitary group

* They rebelled in Ruhr in 1920 after the failure of the Kapp Putsch

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The events leading up to hyperinflation (1923)

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Germany failed to pay reparations…

The French invaded the Ruhr…

German workers went on strike…

The government printed paper money.

There was hyperinflation
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What was hyperinflation ?

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  • prices ran out of control
  • currency became worthless
  • people with savings were hit the worst
  • people on wages were safe
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Rebellions (1923)

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  • nationalist group Black Reichswehr rebelled in Berlin
  • The Nazis attempt a putsch in Munich
  • Communists take over Saxony and Thuringia
  • Communists declare the Rhineland independent
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Nazi policies

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  • Lebensraum- living space to grow
  • A strong Germany
  • A Fuhrer
  • abolition of the Treaty of Versailles
  • Autarky
  • social Darwinism
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Who was Joesef Goebbels and what did he do?

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He was the minister of Nazi propaganda

He used radio, rallies, newspapers, posters and speeches to gain support

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The Munich Putsch

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  • November 1923
  • Hitler and the Nazis went into Munich to take power
  • Kahr called the police who shot 16 nazis
  • Hitler was arrested two days later
  • He only served 9 months of a 5 year sentence
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Why did Hitler attempt the Munich putsch

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  • the nazi party was stronger than ever (55,000 members)
  • the Weimar Republic was in crisis
  • he had a huge army of storm troopers
  • he wanted to copy mussolini( the Italian facist leader)
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Result of the Munich putsch

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  • the nazi party was banned
  • Hitler was banned from public speaking until 1927
  • Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison

Hitler set up the ss

Hitler set up the nazi youth

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How did Weimar survive?

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  • In 1923, Stresemann comes to power
  • he gets the government to call off the strike
  • he gets France to leave the Ruhr
  • Germany allowed to join League of Nations in 1926
  • stresemann introduced reforms
  • he sets up a new currency called the rentenmark
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The Dawes plan

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  • Charles Dawes (U.S. budget director) helped to form the German reichsbank
  • This ended hyperinflation
  • The Dawes plan gave Germany longer to pay reparations
  • Dawes agreed that America would lend Germany 800 million gold marks
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The golden years

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The entertainment business was booming

The economy was back on its feet

Gropius ( architect- led Bauhaus movement)

Marlene Dietrich ( singer/ actress)

Fritz Lang ( film maker)

Erich Maria Remarque( writer)

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What happened in 1929 and what did this lead to in the 1930s?

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The Wall Street crash which led to the Great Depression

This helped hitler gain power because It made the current government even more unpopular

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Give two results of the Great Depression. What did hitler promise which would fix this?

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Unemployment rose to 6 million

People were starving

Hitler promised work and bread which gained him lots of support

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What is negative cohesion?

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When a person votes for a political party not because they agree with their policies but because they hate the same people the party hate

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How many seats did the nazis have in the reichstag in 1928

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12

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How many seats did the nazis have in the reichstag in 1932

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230

28
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Give 3 advantages of the Weimar Republic

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There was a bill of rights

Votes for men and women over 20

It was a democratic society

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