Defeat and End of the Monarchy

• Why was the Kaiser abdicated at the end of WW1?

  The Working Class weren't happy with him holding the War's importance above everything else
• How was Germany impacted after WW1?

  Bankrupt, Society was very divided, Politically unstable
• Who temporarily became leader at the end of WW1? What party was he the leader of?

  Ebert (SPD - Social Democratic Party)
• What group wanted to take over Germany?

  Communists (Sparticists)
• Where did Sparticists seize power in Jan 1919?

  Berlin
• What group did Ebert send out to stop the Sparticists?

  Freikorps
• What were Freikorps made up of?

  2000 ex-soldiers
• What happened to the Sparticists?

  They lost the battle against the Freikorps, and were arrested and later killed
• How did Ebert become president?

  SDP won the election
• Where were politicians meeting to discuss rules?

  Weimar
• What were the set of rules created in Weimar called?

  The Weimar Constitution
• Why was The Weimar Constitution so weak?

  Proportional Representation, dislikes to Democracy (preferred Kaiser's ruling), November Criminals
• What was Article 48?

  Allowed the president to make a law without going through the Reichstag