Origins of the Weimar Republic

• Ludendoff and Hindenburg


  german military leaders who initiated a ‘revolution from above‘ in October 1918
• Kiel Mutiny


  German Navy’s refusal to attack the British navy in October 1918
• Friedrich Ebert


  Leader of the Social Democratic Party and first President of the Weimar Republic
• Armistice


  Agreement signed on November 11, 1918, ending WW1
• November Criminals


  Term used to describe democratic politicians for Germanys defeat in WW1
• Depression


  Economic crisis that posed challenges to the Weimar Republic from 1929
• Dolchstoss


  The “stab in the back“ theory
• When was the Kapp Putsch?

  March 1920
• Was the Kapp Putsch right-wing or left-wing?

  Right wing
• When was the Munich Putsch?


  1923
• Treaty of Versailles


  Peace treaty that ended World War One, imposing harSJ terms on Germany
• Scheidemann


  Chancellor who resigned in protest against the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919
• Ebert


  German leader who signed the Treaty of Versailles
• Freikorps


  Right-wing ex-army parliamentary groups opposing the Weimar Republic
• When was the Spartacist Uprising


  January 1919
• Who led the Spartacist Uprising?


  Karl Liebenicht and Rosa Luxemburg
• How much did Germany have to pay as reparations


  £6.6 billion
• Ebert and Scheidemann


  German leaders who called on Berliners to end the Kapp Putsch through strikes
• When was hyperinflation 


  November 1923
• Ruhr


  Germanys principle industrial area occupied by France and Belgium in response to missing payments
• Gustav Stresemann


  chancellor who stabilised hyperinflation throuhh the introduction of the Rentenmark and securing American loans
• Dawes Plan


  1924 agreement reducing Allied reparation demands on Germany
• When was the Dawes Plan?

  1924
• When was the Young Plan?


  1929
• Locarno Treaties


  1925 agreements to secure GermN borders and reduce reparation demands
• When was the Wall Street Crash

  October 1929