BIG QUIZ 1

• Give one problem that WW1 created for ordinary Germans by 1918?

  Food shortages
•  What is the word used to describe when the Kaiser gave up his throne?

  Abdicate
• Where did the mutiny by German sailors take place in November 1918?

  Keil
• What did workers set-up to take control of Germany after the Kaiser gave up the throne?

  Workers councils
• What was the new German Republic called that replaced the Kaiser? 

  Weimar republic
•  What was Matthias Erzberger and others, who signed the armistice to end WW1, labeled as by angry Germans?

  November criminals
• What was the theory called where ordinary Germany believed that their politicians had betrayed them by signing the armistice?

  The stab in the back theory
• What was the name of the largest political party in Weimar Germany in 1919? 

  SDP ( social democratic party )
• Can you give one strength of the new constitution of the German Republic?

  Freedom of religion and speech, all men and women over 20 could vote, democratic, checks and balances on power etc.
• Can you give one weakness of the new constitution of the German Republic?

  Artical 48. Proportional representation
• What type of government did the German Republics’ new voting system often lead to?

  Coalition
• Which revolution were the Spartacists inspired by that had taken place elsewhere in Europe?

  Russian Revolution
• What political ideology did the Spartacists believe in?

  Communism
• What was the name of the right-wing paramilitary group used to end the Sparticist Uprising?

  Freikorps
• Who were the leaders of the Sparticist Uprising in Jan 1919?

  Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
• How much was the reparation bill for Germany set at in pounds?

  6.6bn pounds.
• Can you give two punishments Germany had to face in the Treaty of Versailles?

  Loss of land, war guilt, reparations etc
• How did Ebert bring an end to the Kapp Putsch in 1920?

  Encouraged passive resistance, strikes, disrupt supplies, isolate Berlin etc.
• What was the main cause of the Kapp Putsch start in 1920?

  Ebert tried to disarm the Freikorps
• Who was the first President of the new German Republic?

  President Ebert