Germany 1-4

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  • Created on: 26-09-20 12:49
What year did it start?
1918
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Meaning of republic..
country without king or queen
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How much were they in debt?
150 billion marks
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Impacts on germany done socially.
:food shortages,decrease in important essentials
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How many civilians ended up dead due to food shortages?
750,000
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How did they end up being affected by the diseases?
less on medicines people wouldn't trade with germany
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Why were people anxious about the future?
:because they had no leader, new political leaders were jewish leaving germans unhappy, people lost there jobs they could not provide for there families
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What did ebert sign?
signed armistice to end WW1
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How many soldiers died?
2 million
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How many soldiers were left wounded?
4 million
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Who was allowed to vote?
men and women over 20 years old
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What was the chancellor leader of?
charge of parties
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How often was the president choosen?
every 7 years
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Meaning of Article 48
in an emergency the president could make a law and only he chooses
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What did president control?
controlled armed forces, selects chancellor, uses article 48 in crisis
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What must chancellor be member of?
Reichstag
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What is reichstag?
contains 421 members, elected every 4 years by german people through proportional representations, made laws
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Who is Fredrick Ebert?
first weimar leader
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What happened to Rhineland?
got demiliterised
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Article 231?
meant germany must accept responsibility of the war
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Diktat?
dictated people-germany was forced to accept the terms of the treaty
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Dolchstoss?
(stabbed in the back) german believed that the government had surrendered not that the army had got defeated
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How many soldiers were allowed in the army?
100,000
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How much reperations?
6.6 billion -had to pay this to the allies:re-payment
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November crimals?
name given to german politicians who accepted the armistice which ended WW1
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What did german navy do in october 1918?
(mutiny) refused to fight
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What date did kaiser abdicate?
9th november 1918
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System of voting germany used?
proportional representations
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What were the left group called?
Spartacists (1919)
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What were the right group called?
Kapp Putsch (1920)
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Leaders of Spartacists?
Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Leibknecht
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Leader of Kapp Putsch?
dr wolfganag kapp
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What would the lefts do?
Support those who cannot help themselves
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What would right do?
helped buisnesses
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meaning of hyperinflation
when prices went up rapidly, government prints too much money and money loses value and price of goods go up
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Why did government do this?
*during WW1 they needed money to pay for the war
*needed more money to pay for the reperations
*with the french invasion of the ruhr more money was needed
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