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Origins of the Weimar Republic and revolution

Germany clearly losing the First World War, the Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated.The government was left in the hands of the new chancellor Friedrich Ebert. In the summer of 1919 he was elected the first president of the new Weimar Republic.
Democratic Germany:
In theory gave Germany a nearly perfect democratic system.

  • the reichstag was elected by proportional representation.The vote was by secret ballot and universal suffrage.elections helf at lesast every 4 years.
  • the Reichsrat was made up of representatives from each of the German states.It could delay new laws
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