Germany in 1918

• Proportional Representation and Coalition

  • political party receives numbers of seats in proportion to votes
  • no one party could get a majority
  • coalition - when more then 1 party forms the government
• What was Article 48?

  allowed the President to rule in an emergency without passing through the Reichstag
• Treaty of Versailles to Germans

  • November Criminals and Dolchstoss (stab in the back theory) - weak and unpatriotic politicians
  • Diktat (dictated peace)
• Treaty of Versailles Terms

  • Blame - Article 231
  • Reparations - £6.6 billion
  • Army - limited to 100,000 men, 6 battleships, Rhineland demilitarised
  • Territory - overseas colonies taken away