The Weimar Republic

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Who was the first President of the Weimar Republic? Ext. (What party was he from)
Friedrich Ebert (Member of the SDP - Centre Left)
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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
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What was the Dawes Plan?
America loaned Germany 800 Million marks and agreed to scale reparation payments per year.
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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
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Who was the second president of Germany?
President Hidenburg
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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
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Who were the Freikorps?
Army Veterans from WWI, typically right wing & nationalist. (Kept their WWI guns)
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Who were the Spartacists?
Were communists who wanted Germany to be run by the working class
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When and what was the Kapp Putsch?
March 1920 - A right wring autocratic revolution that ultimately failed due to a population strike
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
1928 - Was an international agreement not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts
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What was the Locarno Treaty?
Germany formally recognising its new western borders enacted by the Treaty of Versailles
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Give some examples of how Stressemann fixed the economy
job centres, unemployment pay and better housing alongside the Dawes & Young plan
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What did Stresseman & Charles Dawes do to end hyperinflation?
Burned all the old money & introduced a new trusted currency (Rentenmark)
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Who was Charles Dawes?
US Budget Director - Headed the Dawes Plan
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Who were the main two extreme parties in the Reichstag
The NSDAP (National Socialists) & the KPD (Communists)
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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)
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