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Who led the Weimar government?

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Friedrich Ebert

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What was the democratic system in Weimar Germany and what were the issues with it?

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Proportional representation
Lots of parties in the reichstag
No decisions made
Extremist parties had better chance of getting seats

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When did the kaiser abdicate?

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November 1918

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Why did the German people blame the government for losing ww1?

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They believed they were in a strong position in 1918

  • breakthrough on eastern front
  • Russia defeated
  • Bolshevik government forced to sign treaty - 1/4 of its best land and 3/4 of its iron ore
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What were the problems within Germany after ww1?

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In the grips of a major food crisis 
Blockade of German ports led to lack of food
Navy mutinied against kaiser 
1916-17 potatoes ran out 
People questioned the benefit of the war
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What happened in October 1918?

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Sailors at Kiel mutinied against the kaiser setting off a chain reaction of mutinied and uprisings by workers and the German people

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When did the kaiser abdicate?

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9th November 1918

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What happened in 1919?

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Sparticist uprising in January

28th June treaty of Versailles signed

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How was the sparticist revolution defeated?

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Ebert made an agreement with the freckles who crushed it

Rosa Luxembourg and Karl liebknecht were murdered ending the revolution

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What did the sparticists do?

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Revolted against ebert

Captures the HQ of the governments newspaper and telegraph bureau

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Who were the sparticists?

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Left wing communists
Led by rosa Luxembourg and Karl liebknecht
Mainly civilians

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Why did the sparticists attempt revolution in 1919?

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Blamed the government for treaty of Versailles

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Who were the allied leaders at the treaty of Versailles and what did they want?

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Clemenceau - revenge and punishment , Germany stripped of its wealth and resources
David Lloyd George - Germany to remain stable and regain strength
Wilson - just and lasting peace

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What were the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles?

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£6.6 billion reparations
France mine in the Saar
No submarines 
Reduced army - 100 000 men
No airforce
Lose the polish corridor 
Lost 13% of its land
Conscription banned
Rhineland demilitarised
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What was article 231?

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Said that Germany was to blame for starting the war

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Why did the German people resent the Treaty of Versailles?

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Believed they didn’t start the war
Can’t afford the reparations
Damaged pride
Want compensation for their bombing damage

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When was the Kapp Putsch?

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March 1920

18
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Who caused the Kapp Putsch?

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Wolfgang Kapp and the Freikorps

Right wing

19
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Why was there a Kapp Putsch?

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They were angry at the reductions to the army

20
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What was the Kapp Putsch?

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Marched into Berlin and declared a new national government

Army didn’t stop them

21
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How was the Kapp Putsch stopped?

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Social democrats appealed to the works who went on general strike ending the putsch

22
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What did article 48 do?

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Gave the president emergency powers to rule by decree

Could even suspend the constitution

23
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What happened to the Sparticists who survived the attempted uprising?

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They formed the German communist party the KPD

24
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What were Eberts problems?

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Opposition from left and right
Blamed for losing the war
Berlin is violent and unstable
Allies insist on a democracy and he has to get the public behind it
Many Germans saw democracy as a foreign idea imposed on them by the allies

25
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What followed the Kapp Putsch in 1920?

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A communist uprising in the Ruhr that was bloodily suppressed by the army and Freikorps

26
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What were the strengths of the Weimar Constitution?

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Fair

Everyone in the constitution was elected

27
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What happened in 1923 to make it a year of crisis?

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Occupation of the Ruhr
Hyper-inflation
Munich Putsch

28
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When was the occupation of the Ruhr?

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11th January 1923

29
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What happened in the Occupation of the Ruhr?

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French and Belgium troops march into the Ruhr because Germany in 1922 Germany said it couldn’t afford the second reparation installment
The workers striker as passive resistance and production ground to a halt

30
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What caused hyper-inflation?

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Passive resistance in the Ruhr meant nothing was being made and no money was being made
Government just printed more money to give the workers strike pay
Economy collapses

31
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What was hyper-inflation?

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Value went down prices went up
1 million mark notes were being printed
Lose pensions and savings
Only people with debt benefited

32
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When did Stresemann become chancellor?

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August 1923

33
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How was hyper-inflation stopped?

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Stresemann called off passive resistance

Introduced new currency the Rentenmark

34
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When was the Munich Putsch?

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8th-9th November 1923

35
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What was the Munich Putsch and why?

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Nazi party launched attempted revolution because Stresemanns actions were seen as a betrayal
Collapsed by the police
Hitler put on trial

36
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What and when was the Dawes Plan?

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Loan from America that Stresemann negotiated to reduce the size of the repetition instalments and help the economy
1924

37
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What happens in 1925?

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Stresemann signs the Locarno treaty

38
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What happens in 1926?

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Stresemann gets Germany accepted into the League of Nations and reverses some terms of Treaty of Versailles
Hindenburg elected president

39
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What happens in 1928?

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Kellogg-Briand pact signed and Germany renounced war
Extremist parties 136 seats less
Germany achieves same levels of production as before the war

40
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Why were the years 1924-1929 known as the Golden Years?

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No more attempted revolutions after 1923
Accepted internationally
Wages going up
Higher standard of living

41
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When and what was the Young Plan?

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1929

Brought more loans and spread and reduced the reparations over 60 years

42
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What two major events happened in 1929?

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Wall Street Crash - America withdraws loans - start of the Great Depression
Stresemann dies

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