Impact Of WW1

• There were too many political parties so they struggled to agree
• Article 48 went against democracy and allowed the president to pass laws without going through thee government.
• the Weimar republic had to rely on the army for support
• There was chaos in Germany as well as a lack of food and jobs
• Germany believed they had been stabbed in the back due to the signing of the armistice
• The spartacist uprising is a result of communist being unhappy with the armistice
• in 1920 the right wing attempted to take over, this was known as the kapp putsch
• The Spartacist uprising were made up of communists led by president Friedrich Ebert and his democratic party. On January 1919 They led a strike in Berlin
• The government had help from the freikorps to put down the rebellion, led by Karl Liebknecht And Rosa Luxemburg
• Germany was not allowed an army over 100,000
• Germany was not allowed any military aircraft
• Germany was not allowed submarines
• Germanys Rhineland was demelitarised
• Germany had t give away some of it's Land
• Germany had to pay reparations of 6.6billion
• The Treaty of Versailles made germany feel humiliated as they were forced to accept the blame for ww1
• Because Germany couldn't Pay the reparations the French sent troops to invade the Ruhr
• The Ruhr was a major industrial area in Germany
• The Ruhr crisis occurred in 1923
• The first Stage of inflation was when more money was printed to pay workers that were on strike
• Passive resistance included strikes by German workers
• The munich Putsch was in 1923 and attempt by Hitler to take power
• Hitler was unhappy with the terms of the treaty of versailles
• Hitler initiated the Munich putsch As the Weimar was in Hyperinflation crisis
• The Munich Putsch was supported as the Nazi party had over 55,000 members