Weimar Republic
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- Weimar Republic
- War Ends
- Germans facing hardships
- Turning against Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Democracy wanted
- People demand resignation
- Newspapers publish resignation (incorrect)
- Republic announced
- Kaiser resigns
- Abdicates to Holland
- Ebert left in control
- Armistice signed - 11/11/1918
- Council of the People's Representatives
- Temporary government
- Consisted of SPD + USPD
- Controlled until 1919
- The Weimar
- Germany is a democracy
- Ebert = president
- President
- Chosen every 7 years
- Chose Chancellor
- DIssolve Reichstag
- Scheidemann = Chancellor
- Proportional Representation
- proportion of seats = proportion of votes
- Article 48
- Ability to suspend constitution
- Unpopularity
- Treaty of Versailles
- Blame
- Article 231
- Take total blame for war
- Arms
- 100,000 men
- 6 warships
- Banned from the Rhineland
- Money
- £6,600 million in reparations
- Land
- Lost its empire
- Colonies became mandates
- Mandates given to League of Nations
- Blame
- Caused resentment
- 'stab in the back'
- Treaty of Versailles
- Unrest
- Spartacists
- Radial socalists
- Rosa Luxemburg + Karl Liebknecht
- 5th January 1919
- Seized HQ of newspapers
- Tried to organise a strike
- Ebert got help from Freikorps = rebellion ended
- Kapp Putsch
- Extreme Nationalists
- Dr Wolfgang Kapp
- March 1920
- Attempted to take power of Berlin
- Workers opposed = general strike
- Kapp forced to give up
- Hyperinflation
- 1923 - unable to pay reparations
- France + Belgium invade Ruhr
- Huge strike in Ruhr
- Print more money = hyperinflation
- Middle-class worse affected
- Spartacists
- Recovery
- Stresemann = Chancellor Aug-Nov 1923
- Novermber 1923 - Rentenmark
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- 1928
- Germany + 65 countries
- No violence in disputes
- League of Nations
- Rejoined in 1926
- International power
- Dawes Plan
- 1924
- Withdrawal of the Ruhr
- More realistic payment dates
- USA lend $40 million
- Young Plan
- 1929
- Reduce reparations to 1/4 of original
- 59 years to repay
- Locarno Pact
- October 1925
- France, Belgium, Germany to respect borders
- War Ends
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