Weimar Republic
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- Weimar Republic
- Constitution
- Old elements of autocracy
- Executive powers
- Stronger legislative
- Regional Powers
- Proportional representation
- Economic Problems -1923
- Inflation
- Occupation of the Ruhr
- Shortages
- People's savings
- Printing more money
- Opposition
- Kapp Putsch
- 1920 - Kapp supporters tried to reinstate the Kaiser
- Dr Wolfgang Kapp
- Sparticist Uprising
- 1918/1919 - formed a temporary government, Communist demonstratorsdealt with by Freikorps.
- Rosa Luxembourg/ Karl Liebknecht
- Munich Putsch
- 1923 - rebels tried to take over the governmet, and were imprisoned
- Adolf Hitler, Erich von Luderndorf
- Kapp Putsch
- Recovery
- Dawes Plan
- 1924 - annual payments reduced, investment of American banks in Germany
- Young Plan
- 1929 - reduced reparations and more years to pay
- League of Nations
- 1919 - dominating powers of Europe
- Golden Age
- Nightlife
- Literature
- Art
- Cinema
- Not fully recovered
- Dependant on American loans
- Widening gap between social classes
- New ideas were rejected
- Gustav Stresemann's role
- Dawes Plan
- Wall Street Crash
- Economic
- banks suffered huge losses
- unemployment rose
- industry - exports fell
- Social
- Middle classes lost savings
- unaffordable taxes
- Political
- Coalition system collapsed 1930
- Unemployed joined private armies
- Many were unhappy with Bruning
- Economic
- Constitution
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