The Treaty of Versailles & Weimar Republic
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- Created on: 22-12-17 10:37
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- The Treaty of Versailles & the Weimar Republic
- May 1919
- Terms of the treaty released
- Germans appalled
- Right wing blamed Eberts Government for betraying Germany
- Germany lost
- 10% of its land
- all of its overseas colonies
- 12.5% of its population
- 16% of coal & 48% of iron industry
- Army reduced to 100,000
- Not allowed an air force
- Navy reduced
- Ebert
- Reluctant to sign the treaty
- He had no choice and had to sign
- Country blamed him and his Weimar Government
- His opponents used this ti rally against him
- Reluctant to sign the treaty
- German people
- Believed German army stabbed in the back
- By the socialists and liberal politicians
- Believed Germany were not beaten on the battlefield but by civilian politicians who didn't dare continue the war
- Treaty seen as a scandal and a disgrace
- Signified an act of highway robbery against German people
- Believed German army stabbed in the back
- Hitler
- The treaty was still a point of contention when he came in to power
- Economic disaster
- The treaty was seen as the cause of economic chaos
- Forced Germany to pay reparations to allies
- Reparations Bill
- April 1921
- Set at £6.6 million
- Payed annually in instalments
- 2% of Germanys annual output
- Germans protested of strain on the economy
- This was ignored
- Germans protested of strain on the economy
- 2% of Germanys annual output
- Payed annually in instalments
- Set at £6.6 million
- April 1921
- Reparations Bill
- May 1919
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