Impact of WW1 on Germany
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- Created on: 22-03-19 12:27
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- Impact of WW1 on Germany
- social
- deepend divisons within german society
- huge gaps between rich and poor
- restrictions placed on workers' earnings
- factory owners were making big profits
- many women had worked in factories during the war
- some believed this damaged family values
- deepend divisons within german society
- political
- 9 november - Kaiser abdicated
- power went to a Council of People's Representatives
- Ebert and the SPD were in charge
- they did not want a revolution
- lead to civil war
- disrupt demobilisation
- dirupt the distribution of food
- hinder peace negotiations
- he was able to prevent a revolution
- maintained support of the army
- kept the support of industrialists - 8 hour day
- working class was divided between communists and SPD
- they did not want a revolution
- 9 november - Kaiser abdicated
- economic
- industrial production was only two-thirds that of 1913
- national income was one-third that of 1913
- 600,000 widows and 2 million fatherless children
- by 1925 the state was spending one-third of its budget on war pensions
- social
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