Democracy

• How did proportional representation work?

  The amount of votes a party got was the amount of seats they gained in the Reichstag
• Why was proportianal representation hard to govern?

  Was difficult to make decisions as there were so many conflict of political opinions
• Article 48

  Gave the president power to bypass the Reichstag in making decisions, when in state of emergency
• What was the problem of article 48?

  Didn‘t specifically define the term emergency therefore it was used very often and misused
• Democracy

  Was very unpopular as Germany had very limited experience with it, it made the country very discontent
• Being very democratic lead to the formation of coalition governments
• Coalition governments 


  Had many disagreements and conflicts of opinions, ruling was difficult
• Reichstag 


  Elected every 4yrs
• President 


  Elected every 4yrs
• First president of Weimar Republic 


  Freidrich Ebert
• When was the Weimar constitution drawn up?

  1919
• What caused the formation of the Weimar Republic? 


  The keil mutiny which triggered nationwide revolutions and caused the Kaiser to abdicate and the government to fall at the end of WW1
• Hatred for democracy 


  Caused turnings to extremist groups and many revolutions/uprisings on both sides of the political spectrum
• Uprisings

  Included the Spartacist uprising The Kapp putsch, The Munich putsch
• 1918-1933


  Period of time where Germany was one of the most democratic countries in the world