Impact of WWI on Germany
- Created by: Basital
- Created on: 06-04-17 21:42
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- Impact of WW1 on Germany
- Physical
- Farming = disrupted
- Most workers = conscripted
- 1918 - Only 50% milk & 60% meat produced compared to the start of WW1
- Most workers = conscripted
- Britain = blockading Germany's ports since 1916
- Many faced starvation
- 1917 - potatoes ran out!
- 750,000 died from disease and hunger
- Many faced starvation
- 750,000 died from disease and hunger
- Farming = disrupted
- Psychological
- Before the war Germans = proud & ambitious
- Prepared to work hard for success
- United & obedient
- War made them bitter & angry
- Wanted to blame someone
- Arguing amonst themselves
- Before the war Germans = proud & ambitious
- Political
- During the war political system = weak
- Military dictator ship - Kaiser, Army, Ludendorff & Hindenburg
- Democracy = really weak
- During the war political system = weak
- Anarchy
- Germany = unstable
- Armed demobilised soldiers returning home
- Joining in violent demonstrations against the Kaiser
- Abdication of the Kaiser
- Allies made it a condition for peace
- By October sailors & soldiers had begun a mutiny against orders to attack
- November 1918 - protest spread to towns and cities
- Soldier's & Worker's councils took control in many cities
- 9th November - General Strike in Berlin
- Fear of revolution [like in Russia a year prior]
- Social Democrats - Friedrich Ebert declared a German state & abdication of the Kaiser
- 10th November - Kaiser fled to Holland
- 11th November - Armistice
- 10th November - Kaiser fled to Holland
- November 1918 - protest spread to towns and cities
- Physical
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