Following the abdication of the kaiser in November 1918, Germany became a republic. its named after the town of Wiemar where the temporary government met to write a new constitution
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Republic
A government in which supreme power is exercised by representatives elected by the people.
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Proportional Representation
System where the number of votes won in an election directly determines the number of seats in parliament.
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Reichstag
The German parliament
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Coalition Government
A government made up of two or more political parties.
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Pustch
A political uprising
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November Criminals
Those politicians who had agreed to the signing of an armistice in November 1918
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Bolshevists/Bolsheviks
Followers or Lenin who carried out a Communist revolution in rissia in february 1917
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Antisemitism
The hatred and prosecution of the Jews
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Schutzstaffel
the ** which originally started as Hitler's private bodyguard but which grew into a powerful organisation with wide powers;they wore black uniforms
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A government in which supreme power is exercised by representatives elected by the people.
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Republic
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System where the number of votes won in an election directly determines the number of seats in parliament.
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Card 4
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The German parliament
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Card 5
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A government made up of two or more political parties.
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