weimar republic

Question 1

what happened in 1914?

Answer 1

7 countries went to war; Germany and Austria against French, british, Russians, Belgians and surbs

Question 2

why did many german soldiers die apart from the war?

Answer 2

Spanish flu

Question 3

what did the british do in 1915?

Answer 3

used navy ships to cut of food supplies

Question 4

why else did Germany have a shortage of food?

Answer 4

winter, crops died

Question 5

what happened in 1918?

Answer 5

the kaizer abdicated after everything disasterous was happening

Question 6

who stepped up for Germany?

Answer 6

friedrich ebert

Question 7

what did ebert do?

Answer 7

give into what people wanted

Question 8

how was Germany affected by the war?

Answer 8

national insurance was 1 3rd of what it was before
more than 600,000 women were left with no man
industrial production was at 2 3rds
revolution
huge gaps between living standards
women were forced to work in factories (damaging to society)

Question 9

what did the bill of rights allow?

Answer 9

every man and woman freedom of speech and religion and equality under the law.
all men an women over 20 were given the vote
elected president and parliament
the Reichstag made the laws and appointed to government

Question 10

what was article 48?

Answer 10

a law that agreed the president could make laws without going through the reichstag

Question 11

what were the limitations on the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 11

guilt
army cut down to 100,000 men and 6 battle ships
6,600 million repayed
lost land
kicked out of league of nation

Question 12

when did kaiser william 2 abdicate?

Answer 12

when Germany was clearly losing the first world war

Question 13

who became the new chancellor in November 1918?

Answer 13

Fredrick Ebert

Question 14

what was the new Weimar republic under threat from?

Answer 14

extreme political groups

Question 15

who was kurt eisner and what did he do?

Answer 15

in november 1918 in bavaria he created an independant socialist state

Question 16

what were communists in Germany known as?

Answer 16

spartacists

Question 17

who were kurt eisner and Rosa Luxemburg?

Answer 17

communist activists

Question 18

when did they seize power in Berlin and the Baltic ports?

Answer 18

in January 1919

Question 19

how did the weimar republic deal with these communists?

Answer 19

the communist leaders were assassinated and the Freikorps (a group of ex-soldiers) crushed the regular troops

Question 20

why did people hate the weimar government?

Answer 20

because they thought it was the symbol of defeat in the war

Question 21

what happened in March 1920?

Answer 21

a man called wolfgang Kapp an extreme nationalist and a group of Freikorps units seized power in Berlin

Question 22

who dealt with Wolfgang Kapp?

Answer 22

workers who supported the government went on strike so gas water and coal industries came to a stop until they left

Question 23

what happened in august 1921?

Answer 23

the German finance minister Matthias Erzberger was assassinated by extreme nationalists

Question 24

what happened on 24 June 1922?

Answer 24

four extreme nationalists shot the popular German jewish foreign minister Walther Rathenau

Question 25

how much did Germany have to pay in reparations?

Answer 25

132,000 million gold marks in annual instalments

Question 26

what did the German government ask for in 1922?

Answer 26

more time to give the money back

Question 27

what happened in January 1923?

Answer 27

The french and belgium governments sent troops to the ruhr the centre of German industry

Question 28

when the french and belgium invaded the ruhr how did this affect Germany?

Answer 28

the German economy ground to a halt | German workers refused to cooperate

Question 29

how did the government try to resolve the problem of the reparations?

Answer 29

by printing more money out which caused hyperinflation

Question 30

what were the problems of printing more money out?

Answer 30

prices rose in shops almost every hour workers had to be paid twice a day to afford food people on fixed incomes suffered badly

Question 31

how did Gustav Stresseman resolve the issue?

Answer 31

he stopped printing money in 1923 he created a new currency called the rentenmark he also called off the resistance against the French occupation the German economy began to recover slowly

Question 32

when to Hitler first come to prominence?

Answer 32

in 1923

Question 33

what was Hitler's plan?

Answer 33

to seize control of the Bavarian government . The plan was to capture Munich and from there march to Berlin

Question 34

what did Hitler do on 8 November?

Answer 34

Hitler forced at gunpoint kahr the head of the bavarian government to join him in the beer hall

Question 35

what happened the day after?

Answer 35

the next day Bavarian police shot 16 Nazis | Hitler and Ludendorff the former first world was general were arrested

Question 36

what was the book called that hitler created?

Answer 36

Mein Kampf (my struggle)

Question 37

what was the Dawes plan?

Answer 37

under the plan, Germany received huge loans from the USA and reparation payments were made easier

Question 38

what was Stressemans aim by the 1920's?

Answer 38

to get Germany accepted again as a member of the international community

Question 39

what happened in 1926?

Answer 39

they were accepted into the League of Nations

Question 40

what was the structure of the new democratic government?`

Answer 40

the reichstag was elected by proportional representation | the reichstag was made up of representatives from each of the German states. It could delay new laws

Question 41

how did the dawes plan affect Germany?

Answer 41

German industry began to benefit form new investment and unemployment fell sharply

Question 42

what was the locarno treaties?

Answer 42

where Germany accepted the terms of the treaty of versailles

Question 43

in the elections of 1924 and 1928 how many seats did the nazis win?

Answer 43

14 and 12 in the reichstag

Question 44

how were the communists organising themselves?

Answer 44

they created red fighting league and regularly fought street battles and the SA

Question 45

what cultural achievements did the Weimar government achieve?

Answer 45

German cinema developed in the 1920's artists led new movements in visual arts Theatres flourished

Question 46

what happened in 1929?

Answer 46

the wall street crash

Question 47

what effect did it have on Germany?

Answer 47

US banks were forced to recall their loans. German companies were unable to pay German businesses were closing people were left without a job

Question 48

how did the depression help Hitler?

Answer 48

it caused a period of chaos in Germany no government could take control and resolve the issue Hitler promised to help the unemployed and had the solution to the problem (wealthy business people)

Question 49

why was their fear of communism?

Answer 49

some workers turned to communism to sort it out whereas farmers and businessmen turned to Nazis who opposed communism

Question 50

who was running Germany at the time and how?

Answer 50

president Hindenburg was using his emergency powers

Question 51

when did Hitler stand against Hindenburg for presidency?

Answer 51

in the 1932 elections

Question 52

who did Hitler blame for the problems Germany were facing?

Answer 52

Jews and those who had signed the treaty of versailles

Question 53

who did Hindenburg elect chancellor instead of Hitler in the 1932 elections?

Answer 53

Franz Von Papen

Question 54

why did Von papen declare another election to take place?

Answer 54

so he could gain more support in the Reichstag however he did not

Question 55

when did Hitler become chancellor?

Answer 55

1933 27 February

Question 56

when was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 56

27 February 1933

Question 57

who was arrested for the crime?

Answer 57

marinus van der lubbe a communist

Question 58

how was Hitler able to exploit the reichstag fire?

Answer 58

they put the blame on KPD | Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to pass an emergency law restricting personal liberty

Question 59

what are left wing people?

Answer 59

communists

Question 60

when did Hindenburg come into power as president?

Answer 60

1926