early weimar

• how often was a president elected?

  every 7 years
• what article was used in an emergency political parties?

  48
• What did Germany lose as a result of Treaty of Versailles?

  lost 10% of its land
• when was the Sparticists Revolt?

  1919
• key points of the sparacists revolt

  luxembourg and liebknecht led to 100,000 workers to overthrow the government

  failed as a government armed the freikorps,who out down the revolt
• when was the Kapp Putsch?

  March 1920
• key points of the Kapp Putsch?

  supported by the armed freikorps

  took over berlin for 4 days
• why did the kapp putsch fail?


  workers started striking and Berlin came to a standstill
• key points on the Munich Putsch?

  hitler attempted and failed to take over munich and berlin
• who did hitler betray in the munich putsch?

  the right wing leaders(Lossow and Kahr)
• what was Hitler's punishment as a result of munich putsch?

  arrested and sentenced to 5 years of prison,but only served 9 months
• how much was germany forced to pay as a result of the treaty of versailles?

  £6.6 billion
• when was the invasion of the ruhr?

  1922
• what was the purpose of the invasion of the ruhr?

  to take resources as punishment for Germany failing to pay reperations
• hyperinflation


  prices rose dramatically

  November 1923,egg cost 80 million marks

  middle class lost their savings

  people were too poor to afford necessities

  people lost faith in the weimar government
• when was the locarno pact signed?

  1925
• what was the locarno pact?


  the agreement to respect the land borders set out in the Treaty of Versailles
• when did Germany gain entry to the league of nations?

  1926
• when was the dawes plan?

  1924
• what was the dawes plan?

  was able to invest in German economy using loans from the US
• when was the young plan?

  1929
• what was the young plan?

  reduced reparations from £6.6 billion to £2.2 billion
• what was art and literature?

  focus on realism

  artists(such as Otto Dix) and novels(such as All Quite on the Western Front)
• what was film?


  film industry boomed with 250 films being produced a year

  Marlene Dietrich was a famous German actress of the era
• what was standard of living?

  wages increase by 10%

  hours drop

  new housing-2 million built

  60% less homeless