Political and Government Change: Weimar 1918-33

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what are lander?
regional government
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what does the term 'Volk' mean?
people - German citizens with 'German blood'
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who led Germany following the revolution from above?
Prince Max of Baden
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who led Germany following the revolution from below?
council of people's reps
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state 3 terms of the ToV
army limited to 100,000, lose al colonies, demilitarise the Rhineland, £6.6 billion reparations, Alsace and Lorraine, Anschluss forbidden
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when was the spartacists revolt?
jan 1919
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who signed the ToV for Germany?
National Assembly incl. Ebert and SPD Hermann Muller, foreign minister of Bauer's gov. previous chancellor resigned over it
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how many political murders were there in Germany, 1919-22?
376
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when was the first weimar election?
11th feb 1919
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what were the main parties?
KPD, USPD, SPD, DDP, Zentrum, DVP and DNVP
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what was the reichsrat?
part of the gov, representatives from lander, could veto decisions made in the reichstag unless it had 2/3 majority
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what problems were raised by the constitution?
article 48, president had a lot of power e.g. choosing chancellor, proportional representation
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who were the November criminals?
gov who signed the armistice esp. Erzberger and Ebert
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who was elected president in 1925?
hindenburg
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what was the 'stab in the back' myth?
the army could have won the war but they were betrayed by politicians signing the armistice
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who was Walther Rathenau?
jewish politician made foreign minister and was assassinated in 1922
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what episodes of organised political opposition threatened the Weimar Republic?
spartacists revolt, kapp putsch, Munich putsch
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in what ways did Ebert set a dangerous precedent in regards to article 48?
gives emergency powers without parameters and shows that whenever the gov can't pass laws they can use it as a crutch to bypass the reichstag
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what was the Ebert-Groener pact?
army upholds gov as long as gov doesn't reform army and opposes left-wing ideas
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