Strengths and weaknesses of the Weimar Republic

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What is a republic?
A country not ruled by a monarch
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Where was the new republic declared?
Weimar
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What guaranteed the German people freedom and equality?
A Bill of Rights
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At what age were men and women given the vote?
20
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In what way could the Weimar constitution claim to have been better than the British constitution?
Women aged 20 had the vote
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Which of the following powers did the Reichstag not have?
The power to elect a president
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What was proportional representation?
A system that allocated party seats in the Reichstag according to the votes they got
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What was the problem with proportional representation?
No party had enough members to get its laws passed
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When was the Weimar Republic founded?
February 1919
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What was Article 48?
The right of the president to pass laws in an emergency
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