The Weimar Republic 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryThe Weimar RepublicGCSEAQA Created by: Harvey334Created on: 04-11-17 13:59 Who was the first President of the Weimar Republic? Ext. (What party was he from) Friedrich Ebert (Member of the SDP - Centre Left) 1 of 16 Who was the chancellor of Germany from 1923 - 1929 Ext. (What party was he from) Gustav Stressemann (Member of the DVP - Centre Right) Formed the grand coalition 2 of 16 What was the Dawes Plan? America loaned Germany 800 Million marks and agreed to scale reparation payments per year. 3 of 16 What was the total amount of reparations Germany had to pay? Ext. (Including foreign debt?) $6.6 billion in reparations & $1.4 billion in debt 4 of 16 Who was the second president of Germany? President Hidenburg 5 of 16 What was the Young Plan? (1929) A more Permanent resolution to the Dawes Plan. Reduced reparation payments by 3/4 and increased the time frame to pay up to 1988 6 of 16 Who were the Freikorps? Army Veterans from WWI, typically right wing & nationalist. (Kept their WWI guns) 7 of 16 Who were the Spartacists? Were communists who wanted Germany to be run by the working class 8 of 16 When and what was the Kapp Putsch? March 1920 - A right wring autocratic revolution that ultimately failed due to a population strike 9 of 16 What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? 1928 - Was an international agreement not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts 10 of 16 What was the Locarno Treaty? Germany formally recognising its new western borders enacted by the Treaty of Versailles 11 of 16 Give some examples of how Stressemann fixed the economy job centres, unemployment pay and better housing alongside the Dawes & Young plan 12 of 16 What did Stresseman & Charles Dawes do to end hyperinflation? Burned all the old money & introduced a new trusted currency (Rentenmark) 13 of 16 Who was Charles Dawes? US Budget Director - Headed the Dawes Plan 14 of 16 Who were the main two extreme parties in the Reichstag The NSDAP (National Socialists) & the KPD (Communists) 15 of 16 what were the nuremberg laws? The Nuremberg Laws were two laws which excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights. (1935) 16 of 16
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