Weimar Republic

Question 1

Kaiser abdicated on

Answer 1

9th Nov 1918

Question 2

Kaiser’s refusal to abdicate resulted in [3]

Answer 2

kiel mutiny
socialist uprisings
independent socialist republic delared in Bavaria

Question 3

National income ? of 1913

Answer 3

1/3

Question 4

Industrial production ? of 1913

Answer 4

2/3

Question 5

? widows
? children w/o fathers

Answer 5

600 000
2 000 000

Question 6

spending how much of budget on war pensions?

Answer 6

1/3

Question 7

? milk
? meat and butter
? dead from starvation and hypothermia

Answer 7

50%
60 %
300 000

Question 8

Debt increased from

Answer 8

50 bil to 150 bil marks

Question 9

Social impacts [4]

Answer 9

huge gaps between living standards of rich and poor
german workers resented factory workers as they profited
angry about war, didnt think they lost
1.5 million demobilised soldiers returned to society

Question 10

Kiel mutiny

Answer 10

Oct 28th 1918

Question 11

Communist state in Bavaria date

Answer 11

7th Nov 1918

Question 12

Constitution [4]

Answer 12

1) germans >20 could vote
2) system of proportional representation
3) Chancellor responsible for day to day government but needed half of Reichstag support
4) President head of state, Article 48

Question 13

Spartacist revolt date and leaders

Answer 13

5th to 12th January 1919
Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg

Question 14

Spartacists captured what and on when?

Answer 14

HQ of German Newspaper and Telegraph Bureau
5th January 1919

Question 15

Spartacist revolt casualties [2]

Answer 15

100 spartacists dead
13 Freikorps dead

Question 16

Bavaria Spartacist revolt date + casualties

Answer 16

May 1919, 600 commies killed

Question 17

Ruhr Spartacist year and casualties

Answer 17

1920
2000 casualties

Question 18

Kapp putsch date, where and leader

Answer 18

March 1920
Berlin
Dr Wolfgang kapp and 5k freikorps

Question 19

Why did kapp putsch fail, what happened to kapp

Answer 19

workers on strike
fled and was hunted down

Question 20

Gustav Stresemann government set up date

Answer 20

August 1923

Question 21

What did stresemann do [4]

Answer 21

1) called off passive resistance in Ruhr
2) replaced currency w/ rentenmark
3) negotiated dawes plan
4) renegotiated reparations payments

Question 22

Stresemann political achievements [4]

Answer 22

1) no more attempted revolutions after 1923
2) moderate parties 136 more seats in reichstag than radical parties by 1928
3) Hitler gained less than 3% of votes in 1928
4) parties began to cooperate again

Question 23

Stresemann cultural achievements [4]

Answer 23

1) allowed free expression of ideas, writers and poets flourished
2) Bahaus style of design and architecture
3) first Bahaus exhibition 15000 visitors
4) 1920s golden age cinema, star Marlene Dietrich, director Fritz Lang

Question 24

What was the Bahaus style?

Answer 24

rejected traditional styles to create new and exciting things

Question 25

Stresemann foreign policy achievements [5]

Answer 25

1925 locarno treaties
1926 LoN
slowly reversed ToV
Young plan to 2 bil over 59 years, still 50 mil per year
led to removal of british french & belgian troops in rhineland

Question 26

How many dance bands by 1927 in Berlin

Answer 26

900

Question 27

artists performed songs that

Answer 27

criticised political leaders, sex

Question 28

Stresemann economy problems [3]

Answer 28

1) USA loans could be called back
2) increased inequality
3) middle class and farmers lost

Question 29

Main winners during economic boom and why [3]

Answer 29

1) big businesses as they controlled half of German industry
2) landowners
3) workers in big industries as government symnpathetic towards unions-better pay and working conditions

Question 30

price of land rose by

Answer 30

700%

Question 31

unemployment rose to ? by ?

Answer 31

6% of working population by 1928

Question 32

Political problems during Stresemann [5]

Answer 32

1) nazis and commies building up parties
2) 30% of votes went to parties opposing Republic
3) right wing weren’t destroyed, allied w/ nazis
4) 4 different Chancellors during ‘stable years’, weak coalitions
5) in 1925 elected president opposed to democracy

Question 33

Culture problems during Stresemann [2]

Answer 33

1) represented moral decline, made worse by american immigrants & jewish artists
2) Bauhaus college in Dessau bc forced out of Weimar

Question 34

Wandervogel movement [3]

Answer 34

called for return to simple country values
wanted more help for countryside
less decadence in towns

Question 35

Foreign policy problems during Stresemann [2]

Answer 35

Nationalists attacked Stresemann for joining LoN, signing locarno, as it meant Germany accepted ToV
Commies attacked as they saw as part of plot against commie government in USSR

Question 36

Chancellor how long

Answer 36

4 years

Question 37

President how long

Answer 37

7 years

Question 38

Reichstag how long

Answer 38

4 years

Question 39

What was the Dawes plan? [4]

Answer 39

The Dawes Plan gave Germany a massive loan.’
‘The Dawes Plan was a plan in 1924 to restart the German economy.’
‘The Plan was arranged by Charles Dawes/American banker.’
‘Stresemann negotiated the loan on behalf of the German government.’
‘The loan was 800 million marks.’
‘The loan helped pay reparation payments.’
‘The loan helped pay for public works.’
‘The Dawes Plan meant Germany only had to pay reparations which it could
afford.’
‘France and Belgium agreed to stop their occupation of the Ruhr.’
‘Because of the Dawes Plan the German economy had recovered by 1928.’
‘The loan stopped in 1929 and this led to economic chaos.’
‘As a result of the Plan, the German economy was reliant on American loans.’

Question 40

Why did Germany introduce a new currency in 1923? (question b)

Answer 40

‘The impact of the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr.’
‘There was hyperinflation.’
‘High reparations made the problem worse.’
‘Money became worthless.’
‘The existing currency was in crisis.’
‘To stabilise Germany’s economic situation.’
‘The German workers and pensioners were faced with high prices and could
not afford food.’

Question 41

Describe the German reaction to the occupation of the Ruhr by Belgian
and French troops. [4]

Answer 41

‘The German government ordered passive resistance to the French.’
‘Germans refused to work in factories or mines.’
‘The Germans protested and refused to cooperate with the occupiers.’
‘The German government printed lots of money and this led to
hyperinflation.’

Question 42

What were the aims of Kapp and the Freikorps in the putsch of 1920? [4]

Answer 42

‘To overthrow the Weimar government.’
‘To put a right-wing Nationalist government into power.’
‘To destroy democracy.’
‘To defeat communism in Germany.’
‘To undo the German Revolution of 1918–19.’
‘To oppose the disbandment of the Freikorps.’
‘To bring back the Kaiser.’