Weimar Republic Flashcards
When was the Weimar Republic set up and Who was it run by?
January 1919, Fredrick Ebert
Why was there Threat from the Left Wing and Right Wing about the Weimar Republic?
The Republic received violent threats from the left wing who were known as sparticists, they wanted Germany to be ruled by workers, councils or soviets, The left wing wanted a communist Revolution
Threat from the right wing was from people hoping for a return from the Kaiser and they believed that men such as Ebert had stabbed Germany in the back.
Right Wing didn like Ebert because he was to blame for the Treaty of Versalles, he had no choice to sign it.
What was the Reichshtag?
The Reichstag was the National Parliment of the Naziś
Who was the Leaders of the Left and Right Wing?
Left: Karl Luxemmburg
Right: WolfGang Kapp
What were the ethods from the Left and Right wing parties of getting their aims?
Left Wing: Set up soviets in different towns
Right Wing: Kapp Pustch
What did the Weimar Republic under Stressemaan do for Germany under Economy?
Pros and Cons
Economy: Dawes Plan: Reparations were spread over a longer period
USA gave Germany 800 million marks
The government was even able to increase welfare benefits and wages for state employees
Rentenmark - it stopped hyper inflation
The economic boom meant that the US loan could be called in at short notice which would cause ruin in germany
Economic boom also increased inequality
Pheasant farmers and middle class was not earning money
What did the Weimar Republic under Stressemaan do for Germany under Culture?
Pros and Cons
Music became much more free and upbeat
Jazz came from america
Many parties and clubbing increases
Free expression of ideas
The Bauhaus Style was introduced to architecture
German Cinema is introduced
The culture of Germany’s cities represented more decline
The wore decline was made by the American imagrints and Jewish artists
The wandervogal movemeent was supported by the Nazis and wanted to return to the simple country values
What did the Weimar Republic under Stressemaan do for Germany under Politics?
Pros and Cons
Became more stable
No more attempted revolutions after 1923.
The modern party had 136 more seats than the radical parties in the Reichtag
There was Political stability
30% of the votes went to the parties opposed to the republic
What did the Weimar Republic under Stressemaan do for Germany under Forigen?
Pros and Cons
Stresseman signed the Locarno treaty guaranteeing to not change German western border, be in peace with other countries
Germany accepted into Lauge of Nations
Young plan lightened the reparations on Germany
The kellog briand pact was a plan where the nations joined together to agree that if they have a conflict together, they will not use force
When was the Wall Street Crash?
1929
