Weimar Germany 1919-33
A mindmap on Weimar Germany from 1919 to 1933.
- Created by: Tom Wray
- Created on: 25-05-13 12:47
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- Weimar Germany 1919-33
- Problems 1918-1919
- Angry Freikorps
- Unemployment
- Hunger
- Treaty of Versailles
- No real government
- Social democrats and Ebert unpopular - signed the Treaty of Versailles
- No law
- Spartacist Uprising
- Social democrats
- Had Ebert as leader
- They were in charge after the war
- They wanted elections, democracy and freedoms
- They were left wing
- Spartacist Uprising
- Communist
- Leaders were Luxemburg and Liebknecht
- January 1919
- Strengths and Weaknesses of the Weimar Republic
- Strengths
- Democracy
- Bill of Rights
- Elected President
- Elected Parliament
- Weaknesses
- Proportional representation
- Article 48
- Some parties hated it
- Strengths
- Problems 1920-1923
- Political murders
- Munich Putsch
- Hyperinflation
- Kapp Putsch
- French occupation of the Ruhr
- Recovery 1923-1929
- More fashionable culture
- Painting
- Cinema
- Architecture
- Nightlife
- Politics
- Government more stable
- Many still hated democracy though
- Economy
- 1924 - Dawes Plan - USA loans
- 1929 - Young Plan - reduced reparations and more USA loans
- Foreign policy
- Stresseman was a good foreign minister
- 1925 - Locarno Treaty
- 1926 - Joined League of Nations
- Starts to repay France
- Allied troops leave Rhineland
- More fashionable culture
- Great Depression
- 1929 - USA withdrew money
- Economic problems meant bankruptcy and unemployment
- Political problems - People blamed the government and politicians argued. Many chancellors came through and Hitler was the only one with answers
- Problems 1918-1919
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