weimar republic

• who saved German economy?

  stresemann
• Stresemann signed a plan in 1924 stating that the French and Berlin soldiers would leave the Ruhr and the USA would loan them money. What plan was this?

  Dawes plan
• what was the new German currency called?

  rentenmark
• when was the wall street crash?

  24th October 1929
• when was the sparticist uprising?

  January 1919
• when was the kapp putsch uprising?

  march 1920
• what year was the treaty of versailles signed?

  1919
• Who signed the treaty of versailles and why?

  Ebert by force because Germany was weak
• what were the 4 components of the treaty of versailles?

  • land
  • army
  • money
  • blame
• how much land did Germany lose to Europe?

  13%
• how many men were the German army reduced to?

  100,000
• how much did Germany have to pay for reperations?

  6.6 billion
• what did the Germans call the treaty of versailles?

  diktat
• why was the Weimar Republic formed?

  after the kaiser abdicated in 1918
• why was it hard to make decisions in the weimar republic?

  every political party got a seat to be fair
• what did article 48 do?

  allow the president to pass laws without input from the reichstag
• who led the spartacist uprising?

  rosa luxemburg and karl Liebknecht
• what wing was the spartacist uprising from?

  left
• what happened during the spartacist uprising?

  freikops were called for help and killed over 100 workers
• what side was the kapp putsch from?

  right
• who led the kapp putsch?

  Wolfgang kapp and the freikops took part in this
• why did Germany print more money?

  to pay reperations
• who was hit the hardest during hyperinflation and why?

  middle class due to pensions and savings being lost
• when was the invasion of the ruhr?

  1923
• Why did French and Belgian soldiers invade the Ruhr ?

  because Germany couldn't pay reperations anymore so they took resources instead
• When was the Dawes plan signed?

  1924
• what were the years stresemann in power called?

  golden years
• when was unemployment insurance made?

  1927
• who did wages increase for and when?

  industrial workers in the 1920s
• how many houses were made between 1924-31?

  2 million
• when did the strike in the Ruhr end?

  September 1923 by stresemann
• how much did bread go up to in 1923?

  200 million marks
• what happened during the kapp putsch?

  held Berlin for 4 days and brought all essential services to a halt
• what did the young plan do?

  • decreases the 6.6 billion debt to 2 billion
  • gave germany an extra 59 years to pay reperations
  • able to lower taxes because of this
  • French agreed to leave the Rhineland in 1930
• what did the Locarno pact do?

  lead to Germany being accepted as a member in the League of Nations
• when did germany become a member of the league of nations?

  September 1926
• what did the Dawes plan do?

  • secured Belgium and frances withdrawal from the Ruhr
  • more reasonable payments for reparations
  • USA would pay loans to Germany
• what did the weimar republic make germany?

  a democracy
• who was the kaiser?

  willhelm II
• where did the kaiser flee to?

  netherlands