Weimar Opp and control

Question 1

Name three features of conservative elites?

Answer 1

Didn’t like socialist republic
Had control of institutions
Influence with high ranking officials

Question 2

Name three events of the extreme right?

Answer 2

Kapp putsch (1920) - Army disobeyed Ebert 
Organisation consul (1919 - 22) - Paramilitary freikorps
ex army .
Munich putsch (1923) - Hitler and 3000 men marched on Munich,

Question 3

Name two things that happened after WW1?

Answer 3

.Kaiser overthrown

.Ebert from SPD became chancellor

Question 4

What is the stab in the back myth?

Answer 4

.German media convinced of a win
.Loss blamed on politicians, socialists and jews.
.Germany never invaded

Question 5

Name six aspects of TOV?

Answer 5

.War guilt clause (article 231) 
.6.6 Billion pounds in reparations
.Disarement (100,000 soldiers, mo air force or navy and demilitarisation of Rhineland)
.France given alsace and Lorraine 
.Lost polish corridor 
.Not allowed alliance with austria

Question 6

Name four events of the extreme left?

Answer 6

.Spartacist uprising 1919 - 50,000 workers, gov lost control of city.
.Red fighting league - paramilitary, 130,000 members
.Ruhr uprising 1920 - communism in Ruhr, 50,000 workers
.Bavarian Republic 1919 - Took over, 500 people killed.

Question 7

Name 2 ways the TOV was unfair?

Answer 7

.Did not consider itself a defeated nation

.Others equally to blame.

Question 8

Give 2 ways the spartakist uprising was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 8

Was - 
.Gov lost control for 11 days 
.Backing from USSR 
Wasn't - 
.Freikorps easily dismantled it 
.Split the left

Question 9

Give 2 ways the Bavarian republic was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 9

Was - 
.Jews became associated with communism 
.Over 100,000 people 
Wasn't 
.Soldiers supported by freikorps 
.500 people killed

Question 10

Give 2 ways the Ruhr Uprising was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 10

Was - 
.Formed an army of 50,000 workers 
.Showed cracks in the government
Wasn't - 
.Freikorps crushed the rebellion 
.1000 workers died

Question 11

Give 2 ways The red fighting league was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 11

Was -
.Involved in street clashes with the SA,
.1929 celebration of international workers day led to 30 deaths in Berlin
Wasn’t -
.Only lasted 5 years was disbanded in 1929.
.not politically united

Question 12

Give 2 ways The Kapp Putch was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 12

Was -
.Ebert Didnt have support from people or army
.Took over reichstag and other parliament buildings
Wasn’t -
.Only 5000 out of over 100,000 soldiers joined
.Ebert ordered general strike

Question 13

Give 2 ways the Munich Putsch was and wasn’t a threat?

Answer 13

Was -
.Backing of military war hero
.Hitler amassed a force of 3000 men
Wasn’t -
.Kahr called in police and the army to crush it
.Hitler fled and was arrested 2 days later

Question 14

Name two groups that were blamed by the right wing for “stabbing Germany in the back” at the end of WWI..

Answer 14

Democrats, Socialists/Communists, Jews

Question 15

Which German leader propagated the “stab in the back” myth?

Answer 15

Hindenburg or Ludendorff

accept either

Question 16

Apart from the Munich Putsch of 1923, name the other major right wing uprising against the republic and include the year it happened.

Answer 16

Kapp Putsch 1920

Question 17

Apart from the Spartacist uprising of 1919, name one other attempted left wing uprising against the republic and include the year it happened.

Answer 17

Red Bavaria 1919

Ruhr Uprising 1920

Question 18

Name one senior politician who was killed by the Consul terrorist organisation…

Answer 18

Matthias Erzberger
or
Walther Rathenau

Question 19

Which paramilitary organisation helped put down the communist uprisings in Germany during the early years of the republic?

Answer 19

The Freikorps

Question 20

What was established by the Stinnes-Legien agreement of 1918?

Answer 20

8 hour working day, trade union representation in major industry

Question 21

The SA was banned for a few months in 1924-25, which chancellor banned it again in 1932?

Answer 21

Bruning

Question 22

Apart from the conservative elites, which group turned increasing against the Weimar Republic in the later 1920s, mainly due to their economic problems?

Answer 22

Farmers

Question 23

By 1932 what percentage of the German people were voting for parties that were opposed to the republic and the constitution?

Answer 23

58%