Edexcel Gcse History
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- Early challenges to the Republic
- Unpopularity of the Republic
- The Weimar Republic did not officially start until July 1919.
- The politicians who set the Weimar Republic were the same ones who surrendered at end of WW1
- Therefore the Weimar Republic was always linked to surrender and harsh peace treaty terms.
- The Armistice
- After Kaiser abdicated the new government signed the armistice which was an agreement to stop fighting
- Germany was torn apart by social and political problems
- Germany army was in retreat and defense.
- The Treaty of Versailles
- Peace was popular with German people as they suffered during the war.
- The treaty of Versailles was very unpopular and this made the Weimar Republic unpopular.
- The Diktat
- Most Germans assumed Germany could reduce some of the terms of the treaty but the allies refused.
- The treaty terms were imposed.
- The Germans were bitterly opposed to the treaty terms and asked for concessions.
- All were refused.
- The stab in the back.
- The German people didn't believe that there army was defeated.
- Unpopularity of the Republic
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