Weimar Republic - Key Words Flashcards
The Allies
WW1: Britain, Russia and France and their empires
Bauhaus
Modern school of design founded in Germany in 1919
Cabaret
Sometimes satirical art from practices in nightclubs, usually through dance and song. Popular in Weimar Germany
Checks and balances
Parts of a constitution or political system that ensure that no one part of the system or individual within can have too much power.
Dawes Plan 1924
Agreement which reduced amount of Germany’s annual reparation payment and provided US loans to help
Decree
An official order or law e.g. Article 48 allowed the President to pass any law without parliament’s agreement in times of emergency
Freikorps
Paramilitary groups of volunteer soldiers. In Weimar Germany, these groups were often strongly nationalist and linked to extremist politics
Inflation
When prices rise and the amount that can be purchased with each unit of a currency reduces: the value of the currency declines
KPD
German Communist Party
Left wing
Political beliefs that promote the creation of a more equal society`
Munich Putsch
Attempt by the Nazi Party in 1923 to seize power and start a national revolution. It failed.
Nationalist
A political idea that seeks to glorify the nation.
Passive resistance
Resisting a government and / or state via peaceful means (e.g. German workers’ response to French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 was to stop working).
Proportional representation
Electoral system in which seats allocated in parliament correspond to the way in which people vote .e.g if 20% of voters vote for a party then that party receives 20% of seat in parliament
Putsch
An attempt to seize power
