part 1 simplified

• 1918- kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
• 1919 - Spartacist uprising ran by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
• 1919 - Weimar constitution established with Ebert as chancellor
• 1923 - French occupation of the Ruhr
• 1923 - hyper inflation
• 1924 - The Dawes plan
• 1929 - the Young plan
• Kaiser Wilhelm was the ruler of Germany until he abdicated because Germany lost the war
• Friedrich Ebert - Leader of SPD who became chancellor
• Wolfgang Kapp - nationalist who wanted the Friekorps to take over Germany and led Kapp putsch
• Gustav Stresemann - chancellor and Foreign minister who helped save the German economy
• Armistice - an agreement to stop fighting
• Diktat - a dictated peace agreement, usually imposed by a powerful country on a weaker one
• coalition government - a government made up of two or more parties that work together to form a government
• electorate - the people who are eligible to vote in an election
• trade union - a group of workers who join together to protect their rights and interests
• communism - a system of government in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the community
• civil servant - someone who works for the government in some way
• constitution - the laws and rules of a country
• Article 231 said that Germany had to accept war guilt