History Key issue 1
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- Created on: 15-10-13 19:12
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- Key Issue 1
- Features of Weimar 1919
- All male and females over 20 can vote.
- Freedom of speech, assembly and movement were granted.
- Freedom of religion was granted
- Strengths and weaknesses of the Weimar Republic
- Proportional Representation
- Positive- Gave the chance for all parties to get seats
- Negative- Usually meant the government was made up of coalitions this led to fallouts
- Article 48
- Positive- This meant that the country could still be governed in a crisis
- Negative- Undemocratic
- Proportional Representation
- Germanys Problems 1919-1923
- Economic
- Reparations to rebuild city
- Treaty of Versailles £6.6 million/Polish corridor/saar coalfields
- French invaded Ruhr when Germany didn't pay
- Passive resistance
- Still had to pay workers- printed more money- hyperinflation- barter economy
- Economic
- Violence from left and right
- Right
- Many right winged groups hated the government for tsigning the treaty
- The kapp Putsch in march 1920 a Free Corps brigade rebelled against the treaty, led by Dr Wolggang it took over Berlin and tried to bring back thew Kaiser
- Nationalists Terrorists groups murdered 356 politicians
- Left
- Red Rsing
- The Ruhr workers went on strike- the communists among the workers stayed on strike after kapp and formed there own red army
- The red rising was crushed by the free corps who had previously tried to overthrow the government
- Red Rsing
- This clearly showed how weak the government were- it had to rely on a group of right wing extremists to keep them in power
- Right
- Features of Weimar 1919
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