Germany

• What was the article of the Weimar constitution that threatened democracy?

  Article 48 - The president had the power to rule by emergency decree
• What was proportional representation


  The amount of seats in the Reichstag a party was reflected the number of votes they received.
• who was the first prime minister of germany?

  ebert
• when was the treaty of Versailles signed?

  1919
• military terms for treaty of Versailles

  • 100,00 soldiers
  • 15,000 sailors
  • 6 ships
  • no submarines or armoured vehicles
  • demilitarisation of the Rhineland
• what is lebensraum?

  living space for germans acquired through invasion
• How much did Germany owe in reparations in 1919

  £6.6 billion
• Between 1919 and 1923, there were 376 political assassinations.
• What cause of the treaty of Versailles meant Germany accepted total blame for the war?

  War Guilt Clause
• What year did the Weimar republic stop paying reparations?

  1922
• Hyperinflation explained

  • When money was printed, governments tied currency to a fixed value of gold.
  • But Weimar Germany did not have enough gold to match the amount of money it was printing.
  • This meant that the value of the German mark fell and that the price of goods increased rapidly.
• In 1918, a loaf of bread cost 0.6 German marks. By November 1923, it cost 201 billion German marks.